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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54505	A religious scrutiny concerning unequall marriage to be represented to the Generall Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland : together with a postscript to the Commissioners of the Kirk : whereunto is subjoyned an appendix humbly tendred to the Parliament of England in reference to the late transactions of state, and now lastly is added a faithfull and conscientious account for subscribing the engagement / by Thomas Paget ...	Paget, Thomas, d. 1660.	1650 (1650)	Wing P169B; ESTC R31749	30,942	56

as if thereby likewise there were a notorious breach of the Solemn League and Covenant Will ye be pleased to weigh and consider what is offered to your view in the short ensuing Answer tending to satisfaction and resolution Answ. 1. Be it known unto the Objecters whether Scots or English that at least some of the prime promoters endevorers and contributers unto the doing of justice and judgment on the capital Delinquent and Delinquents are persons truely fearing God exercising themselves to have always consciences voyd of offence towards God and men partaking in their measure of all the properties and marks of true Church members asserted in Psal. 15. And who have not forgotten God nor delt falsly in his Covenant so that whatever cometh on them they will not they may not suffer their integrity to be taken from them 2. Let all men know whoever they are That Ministers of the Gospel and people professing the Gospel fearing God have not been wont to esteem it nor yet do think it any disparagement at all to be zealous with a perfect zeal against the crying sin of blood-guiltiness Doth not the Moral Law expresly prohibit murther And doth not the Iudicial Law expresly direct unto the satisfactory expiation thereof by putting to death the blood-guilty And is not Gods controversie with a Land defiled with blood 〈◊〉 judgment be executed Blood-guilty King Saul left unto himself and doing execution on himself 1 Sam. 31. 4. Had he been alive when inquisition was made for blood by occasion of a three yeers famine he ought to have been put to death as well as those of his bloody house were because of his sinister zeal in slaying his servile subjects the Gibconites see 2 Sam. 21. 1 2 6. David for his blood-guiltiness in the exposing Uriah to the sword of the Ammonites deserved death his own mouth conscientiously passing sentence however the One absolute Lawgiver who might do what he pleased according to the full Soveraignty of his own Will exchanged his death for his childe 's at that time see 2 Sam. 12. 5 12 13. All this the Objectors do know well enough howbeit they are someway transported to elude herein Non tutum est ludere sacris Cavete 3. It is taken for granted That the contrivers urgers and takers of the Solemn League and Covenant did mean endevor and act according to the sacred conditions of an Oath prescribed in Jerem. 4 2. Thou shalt swear The Lord liveth in Truth in Iudgment and in Righteousness If otherwise it is a taking of Gods Name in vain An Oath may not be vinculum iniquitatis an obligation to sin This plea the defendants have against the plaintiffs 4. In the preamble unto the taking of it it is expressed That the end of the Covenant as a last refuge was the preservation of the takers of it and their Religion from utter ruine and destruction So that the six particular Articles of it were intended and pretended to have a tendency to such an end and not otherwise Now such hath been the end and hereunto have served the means of the defendants in this case Let the adversaries judg if otherwise apparent 5. In the Parliaments Order of Septemb. 25. 1643. about the taking of it It is required That the Ministers who were appointed to tender it should read it and then explain it and then perswade to the taking of it This Order seemeth to imply not onely a necessity of the explaining of it but also a requisitness in so taking of it as explained in its just sense and latitude and end and not otherwise And this also is the plea of the Covenanters honestly and uprightly disposed as all must needs acknowledg 6. Whereas the title prefixed unto the Covenant is A Solemn League and Covenant for Reformation and defence of Religion the honor and happiness of the King and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland The explanation must needs be That such Reformation and defence ought to be prosecuted in lawful and just ways and means for the accomplishment thereof and not otherwise And in this sense no doubt the faithful Covenanters have taken it 7. It must needs be understood rationally That the course for the due accomplishing of what is in the title or more full expression of the six Articles of it ought to have their mutual consistency without any prejudice to any of the particulars whether they be absolute or conditional onely whether they be primary or subservient onely Our Lord Christs vindicating of his Disciples touching the keeping of the Sabbath against the calumnies and exceptions of the Pharisees see Matth. 12. 1 2 9. may vindicate the objected against in the case in hand 8. Touching the endevor Covenanted in the first and second Articles it is charitably hoped That all the takers of it have complied therein more or less according to their calling capacity and opportunity thereunto Every one standeth or falleth to his own master howbeit it is most probably conjectured That such Parliamenteers and their adherents who voted against the Concessions of the King in the treaty at Newport in reference to Religion and Covenant as no just ground and foundation for a good Peace argued thereby much faithfulness to the Covenant Ye your selves acknowledg Testim against Tol. pag. 12 That those Concessions if acquiesced in were dangerous and destructive both to Religion and Covenant 9. The third Article of the Covenant in the first branch of it touching Endevor mutually to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliaments and Liberties of the Kingdoms must be understood of known and just Rights and Priviledges and Liberties otherwise there must needs be a transgression of the Rules prescribed above mentioned see Iere. 4. 2. Answ. 3. 10. Touching the second branch of the third Article viz. To defend and preserve the Kings person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms it is to be taken notice of That this branch is propounded and taken conditionally and with limitation viz. With respects unto the ends specified Supream or subordinate Authority is custos utriusque tabutae the Keeper of both Tables Now as the Governors do act answerably to the just nature of their Offices they ought to be honorably assisted and defended but if they shall act contrarily even tyrannically then it may and ought be said and done unto them as just means and opportunity do serve thereunto as Iehu said to Ioram see 2 Kings 9. 22. 24. What peace so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many And Jehu drew a bowe with his full strength and smote Jchoram between his arms and the arrow went out at his heart and he sunk down in his chair 11. Whether the fourth Article of the Covenant hath not been endevored by our Covenanting Parliament and their adherents for discovering Incendiaries Malignants and evil Instruments whoever