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A48761	Animadversions on the Scotch covenant Wherein all may receive satisfaction as to the illegality of it, and be easily perswaded to the renunciation thereof. By J. L.	J. L.	1662 (1662)	Wing L26; ESTC R216515	18,797	31

discover the way and means of attaining salvation in this Non deficit so omits not any thing of that which is needfull to acquire this End But on the other side Non redundant in superfluis for although there be scattered up and down some general precepts concerning Magistrates and all Relations yet it being not the end of Scripture to write Politicks we may boldly say that all that is good in Government cannot be learned out of the Book of God much might be said to this but because I mean to make short work with him I shall choak him with an Authority drawn from a Patriarch of his own King-lessening Doctrine Buchanan in his Book De jure Regni when he comes to answer the Objection De jure Regni apud Scotos Pag. 47. That however Idolatrous the Kings of Israel were yet the Prophets never exhorted the people to take up Arms and to set things right by such crooked means Possum saith he apud multas Nationes plurimas saluberrimasque recensere Leges quorum in Sacris literis nullum est exemplum The Government is by Lawes Lawes there are and good ones too it may be besides what are there something it seems by him not only for Government but for governing him that hath the Government that yet there is no Scripture for And he did very ingeniously to confesse they had no Scripture for it for all their practises in that are besides the Text Kings must govern by Scripture but they think they may govern them without He is pleased a little after to commend the Testimonies of God for the best Councellours we deny it not but why are they so Because they will tell the Kings freely both their Sin and their Duty Why who should if they should not God speaks by them but sure I am he likes them the better for their freedom with Kings but let me tell you since the Scriptures are so free you might be a little modester then you are and let something else then railing be the Character of a good Preacher amongst you Page 6 Much troubled he is Page 6. with anointing of Kings and after he hath granted that one of he Cases in which the Jews used it viz in the Case of Interruption by Vsurpation which he confesseth was their Case in the present Coronation yet then he flies to this that it was Typical and taken from the Jewes without warrant They make what they please typicall but though they were anointed and Christ were yet thence to infer it was a type is no sound consequence The Jews used Baptisme before Christ Christ makes use of it also will they say this is a typicall action if so why do they not cast that off the sick were anointed with Oyl James 5.14 was that typicall as for his other that it was taken from the Jews without warrant I must look upon it as affirmed Gratis For in these things where we have not directions in the New Testament why may we not have respect to the Old especially when the action doth not deny Christ come so will not lay any Jewish bondage upon us Now to make it more odious he tells us how that this anointing was Most in use with the Bishops of Rome who to keep Kings and Emperours subject to themselves did swear them to the Pope when they were anointed and yet the Jewish Priests did never swear Kings to themselves as for England although the Pope was cast off yet the subjection of Kings to Bishops was still reteined for they anointed the King and swore him to the maintenance of their Prelaticall Dignity Very good Turpe est Doctori cùm culpa redarguit ipsum What art thou O man that condemnest another and yet dost the same things Sure you were asleep when you delivered this I am sure you forgot your self much look into Page 2 in the Chancellors Speech and see what he moves to the King so soon as he had delivered the desires of the people for his Coronation That he would maintain Religion conform to the National Covenant League and Covenant so in Pa. 10. after the Sermon was done they put him to renew the Covenant they had urged him to take it before this was but a renewing for notwithstanding their Articles at Breda they knew well how they had used him in this particular both before he landed and after contrary to their first agreement for no Coronation nor nothing to be done for him without this and who is this to Engage him too but their Presbytery that is themselves and yet they complain of the Pope and the English Bishops that they swear Kings to themselves Accordingly they fashion the people Page 21 to bear Truth and Faith to him and live and die with him with this limitation In your service according to the Nationall Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant So Page 23. the Lords one by one did promise Truth and Faith to him against all manner of Polkes whatsoever in your service according to the Nationall Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant So no Covenant no Obedience no King Yet they doe not as the Pope or the Bishops of England good men they are guilty of no such practises indeed they are not but of worse they are Where was your reason when you say that in England although the Pope was cast off yet the Subjection of Kings to Bishops was still reteined wherein or how is the King of England subject to the Bishops speak it out Man do they meet without his Order but with the danger of a premunire have any of them opposed him or railed against him in their Sermons or have they undertaken at their Assemblies to order the King to order the Army to direct them when they shall Fight when not whom they shall employ whom cast out how they shall keep their King lockt up as a Prisoner when he shall appear and when 't is fit to take him from the Army lest by being seen he prove too popular and give a Check to the Kirk All which things and many more we know who have done that pretend to nothing but the sword of the spirit Do the Bishops at any time use so much as a bold Expression to him do they not acknowledge though not their calling yet the exercise of it in this or that Precinct to him do they in their Synods offer to oblige the people by their determinations till the things agreed upon have received the Stamp of Royall Authority and so made currant can you say that at any time they have held their Resolution firm in any thing without the King's Confirmation do they not acknowledge him and pray for him as supreme in all causes as well Ecclesiasticall as Civill do you give him so much or do you so pray for him Lastly have the Bishops in England since the Reformation ever used any violent meanes to bring the King to their bow who have you known and let them bear the

obliged to maintain Presbyteriall Government but however he should maintain that I doubt he would sadly find that that will never maintain him He cannot leave his Boldnesse in undertaking to tell the particular causes of God's Judgements which he is often at Some endeavour to make you reproach that for which God hath punished your Predecessors Judicia Dei abyssus magna you are very confident in such Speeches and shew little of a Divine But no marvail for he pretends to prophesie For he is so enamoured with this Government that he saith Who ever meddles to overturn it it shall be as heavy to him as the burthensome stone to the Enemies of the Kirk Is it not so to them who submit to it a heavy dull burthen and we have not yet seen his Prophesie fulfilled for we have found that this Covenant hath ruin'd as many of its Servants as Enemies Pag. 17 You shew there plainly how jealous you are of Kings and how loth they should govern for fear their Government should prove prejudiciall to the Cause that is Presbytery For though you say before How well Kingly Government and that agree you scarce dare venter them together It was with much Debate that you yielded to it notwithstanding you sent for him You are free in your advice to the King in your story of Modus but never practise it your selves for such Hot-spurs the world affords not who know no moderation and think they have no zeal unless it put the Nation into Flames Pag. 18 All the charge you lay upon King James amounts to nothing for you never left him till you had gotten him to Covenant when he was young and what he said then of England or Geneva is as of little consequence as the rest But what if he never said it but you for him or what if the Church of England do retain some Ceremonies must they needs be Popish eo nomine because Ceremonies Away with these trivial complaints the Church of England neither retains so many as may hinder her Sons from attending to the substantiall part of Religion nor any so unproper as that they cannot procure the End for which they were commanded As for Geneva if they have any Holy dayes they may perhaps answer you in the Apostles phrase Judge no man in respect of a Holy day But these hot Northern Heads judge and condemn all the world but themselves And all the world besides thinks them scarce worth seeing or condemning What King James did when he came to riper years and more experience doth give a Testimony that he was under Force in his younger time And the Foundation he laid and upon which his Son built was not To mischief Religion but to bring the Church to its ancient splendor and to keep underneath malipert and disorderly Sectaries as Mas Robert who when he had done his Sermon and the Action of Coronation is over and that he hath given the King his Benediction being conscious to themselves by what means they had extorted this from him he falls to his threatnings Page 23. Pag. 23 And to scare both King and Nobles from declining the Covenant As if nothing else were able to hold the Crown but that we have heard of righteousness that it will stablish a Throne but never that a forced Covenant would work such strange Feats But he tells us then afterward that If they keep the Covenant it may be expected that God will keep you out of their hands viz Cromwell and his Party We know not that any thing was broken of it for all was in their hands till Worcester Fight yet they fell into their Hands and the Covenant did not save them Pag. 24 You say freely indeed that the chief Cause of the Judgements upon the Kings House hath been the Grandfathers breach of Covenant with God and the Fathers following steps in opposing the work of God and his Kirk within these Kingdomes Do you know it was Judgements to him who was so unnaturally murdered to the Nation I am sure it was a Judgement but to him a Mercy to be taken away in such a Cause and by such Hands as no bad Man could suffer from and from such a people the Tide of whose affections if it had not turned they had neither been worth living amongst nor ruling And with the like rare confidence you charge him in Christ's Name to Keep this Covenant in all points and if he break it and come against this Cause I assure you the controversie is not ended between God and your Family but will be carried on to the further weakning if not the overthrow of it How dare you charge a King in Christ's Name to keep that which was made in your own name and for your own interest upon what ground can you assure him that the Controversie is not ended with his Family but that it shall continue still to the weakning or overthrow of it Yes now I have found the Reason For if he doe not you and your Party I do believe will do your utmost for effecting what you threatned You doe as the Rebells did here in England before the War predict great Troubles which themselves were resolved to raise For though it becomes us to conceive that all Afflictions are just and so suppose some Default in us yet for any Man to say either of himself or others that such a Lash is for such a Fault is more then we have Warrant for and a presumptious intruding into the secrets of God's justice which such a Boldnesse may bring at last upon us You know who said That neither this Man hath sinned or his Parents that he was born blind yet perhaps had you been there you would have given a REASON why he had been born blind You promise much that if he Befriend the Kingdome of Christ that is the Covenant It may be God from this day shall begin to doe you good Now you are not so confident as before but if you break the Covenant then he is not upon his may bee's but is very positons But ye that Support and he that is supported will fall together You give us that which is very rare in your Writings most of them being an Ipse dixit a reason why you urge this because it is a rare thing you say to see a King and great Men for Christ This being for Christ is a canting Phrase which every Sect takes up at pleasure For whoever is for the Interest of that side is for Christ Sect. and then Ipsum esse illic est pro mereri as Tertullian with you not to doe the Duties of a Christian but to be for the Covenant that is to be for Christ and all you are for Christ and no Body else Pure Donatists ubicunque ipsi ibi Ecclesia The Church is where ever they are and no where else to be found At last for a close of all you tell the King That he is the only Covenanted King with God and