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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87123	The harmonious consent of the ministers of the province within the county palatine of Lancaster, with their reverend brethren the ministers of the province of London, in their late testimonie to the trueth of Jesus Christ, and to our Solemn League and Covenant : as also against the errours, heresies, and blasphemies of these times, and the toleration of them.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1648 (1648)	Wing H800A; Thomason E434_7; ESTC R7597	26,660	31

on Englands head we judged the day of entering into this Covenant to be Englands Coronation day as it was the day of the gladness of our hearts and wherein God wiped away the reproach cast upon us by Separatists before for the want of an express Covenant We do also remember how Copies of this Covenant were sent abroad into neighboring reformed Churches by whom as they were received with great joy so doubtless then their expectations were raised to see England shortly brought neerer unto them in a thorougher Reformation according to the Word of God those things being abjured which had been formerly as a partition-wal set up betwixt them and us And let us never let slip out of our minds how God from heaven smiled upon our Armies from the first day of entering into this Covenant until through the good hand of our God upon us for good the whole power of the enemy was quite broke in pieces and therefore if so soon as we have reaped such fruit and benefit from it we cast it away who knows but we may be forced to take it up again to save our lives And yet for all this we wish we had not cause for to complain that this Covenant thus strongly urged thus solemnly sworn thus blessed with success is contemned sleighted most palpably broken scorned and derided Where an holy and religious Covenant once made is regarded as it ought it wil be reverently spoken of neither wil the earnest and pathetical pressing the not casting it away be any matter to quarrel or scoff at And yet besides sundry other unsavory and reproachful expressions used tending plainly to bring the Covenant into disgrace to say no worse of them d The first thing you complain of under the head of omission is no less then the Solemn League and Covenant and here you do abound with your pathetick inter●ogations to affect the hearts of those whose eyes are in their howels whose understandings are drowned swallowed up in their passions after this manner And shal the Covenant which is as solemn a Vow which creatures on earth can make to God in heaven c. And again shall the Covenant for the preservation c. And again like the Papists which hold up their idolatrous Eucharist in the eyes of the people that they may fall down to worship it shal the Covenant which both Houses recommended to the Assembly of Yet again as if here lay all your bait to catch gudgeons shal our mutual solemn league and Covenant subscribed by the Parliaments of both Kingdoms c. Once more yet for if this spring fails all our sport wil be lost shal the Covonant even with those that took it be already out of date c. Scot●ish ●aift dispeld page 22. some there are that liken the earnest and often pressing of not laying aside the Covenant to the practise of the Papists holding up the idolatrous Eucharist in the eyes of the people that they may sal down and Worship it The Covenant binds to endeavour Reformation according to the Word of God and to bring the Churches in these Kingdoms to neerest uniformity in matters of Religion and yet the earnest pressing uniformity according to the Covenant is made by some e But secondly why do you make the solemn League and Covenant the uniicum necessartum the ballance of your sanctuary and the golden reed to measure your temple you have not a tutle of the word of God but all your cry is the solemn League and Covenant in stead of the Word of God the Jew hath his Talmud the Turk his Alcharon the Papist his Mass-book the Prelate his Service-book and must we have the solemn League and Covenant in stead of the Oracles of Heaven the Word of God Better it is that this brazen serpent should be broken to pieces and ground to powder then that men should fall down and worship it It was the hypocritical Pharisees pretending to heaven though minding the earth who making voyd the Law of God did teach for doctrines the tradition of the Edders let us not put up mans posts the Covenant by Gods posts the holy Scriptures Scottish mist dispell'd page 26 27. a substituting the Solemn League and Covenant in the room of the Oracles of Heaven aseting up of mans posts the Covenant by Gods posts the holy Scriptures and is compared to the Jew having his Talmud the Turk his Alcharon the Papist his Mass-Book the Prelate his Service-Book which kind of expressions and comparisons as we cannot but with greatest indignation detest and abhor so in that they set the Covenant that makes the Word of God the rule of all Reformation and Uniformity that is sworn to there at hostile opposition with the Word of God it is very evident to what purpose they tend sc that the covenanted Uniformity in matters of Religion should not be insisted on or urged for that were to set up mans polls the Covenant by Gods posts the holy Scriptures and were to be like the Jew having his Talmud the Turk his Alcharon the Papist his Mass-book c. and therefore the conclusion is better it is that this brazen serpent should be broken to pieces and ground to powder then that men should fall down and worship it though formerly an healing benefit was received from it Are not these plain evidences in what mean account the Covenant is with some persons when the earnest pressing the not laying it aside is so scorned and slonted at and when the urging of covenanted Uniformity wil not be endured And is not this Covenant also most palpably broken when not only Uniformity is cryed out against but a Toleration of all kind of Errours Heresies and Schisms in stead of endeavours to extirpate them is earnestly pursued by divers to say nothing of the great increase of Errours of all kinds the woful divisions and rents in the Church which never were more or greater then since the Covenant was taken nor of the abominable looseness and profaness of the times which certainly is not for to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of areal Reformation according as was professed and promised For these things we see cause to hang down our heads and blush and that our eyes should run down with tears continually as our hearts at the consideration hereof may be astonished and swallowed up with grief Oh what dishonor is hereby brought to God! What scandal given to Religion What matter of reproach and scorn is this like to be unto us from our common enemy What an unparalell'd blot is hereby laid upon this Church and Nation never like to be washed out in this Age nor in the Age of our children after us and what danger of swift destruction if there be not repentance in time May not the Lord complain of us as once he did of Israel When he slew them then they sought him f Psa 78.34 35 36