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A70864	Concordia discors, or, The dissonant harmony of sacred publique oathes, protestations, leagues, covenants, ingagements, lately taken by many time-serving saints, officers, without scruple of conscience ... by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P3928; ESTC R22150	38,103	48

for it yet let them from this memorable President conclude for certain that God will sooner or later avenge it upon their Children and Posterity to their utter extirpation and on the whole Nation too as he hath done in a great measure already it may be 35 years after the Perjuries Treasons committed in this kind especially when not committed only once but perpetrated and acted over sundry times by a continued uninterrupted succession of New Perjuries Treasons and Violations of them in the highest degree from day to day without fear or shame as Exod. 20. 5. c 34. 7. Gen. 3. 14 15. 1 Kings 2. 33. 2 Kings 5. 27. Jer. 22. 30. c. 36. 31. Isay 14 20 21. Mich. 2. 2 3 4 5. Jer. 6. 15 c. 8. 12. may assure all our late and present Delinquents in this kind and their Posterity which texts they may do well most seriously to peruse with bleeding and relenting hearts 15. This their violation of their League Oath to the Gibeonites was never openly justified pleaded written preached printed for nor carried on with solemn Fasts and Humiliations most * detestable unto God when thus abused nor yet solemnly abjured by new contrary Oaths or Engagements forcibly imposed on all the Israelites by Saul and his Counsel of State to extirpate the Gibeonites yet it was thus severely punished by God himself on Sauls posterity and the Israelites O then what soarer overflowing desolating Judgements may our perjurious Fidifragus Grandees Saints Nations most justlie fear and expect will undoubtedly befall themselves their posterities and our Kingdoms now almost ripened for destruction in wise mens apprehensions who have not only infringed all our Oaths Covenants Protestations to our lawfull Kings their Heirs Successors and Posteritie over over in the highest degree but most impudently justified pleaded preached written for the lawfulness thereof yea kept manie Hypocritical Atheistical Mock-Fasts and Humiliations to promote our most detestable Perjuries Treacheries Abominations and publicklie abjured all our former loyal Oaths Protestations Covenants by new Treasonable enforced Oaths and Engagements diametrically repugnant to them Certainlie if this breach of Oath by Saul in slaying the Gibeonites could not be expiated nor the 〈◊〉 years famine inflicted on the whole Land for it removed by all King Davids and the Israelttes Fasts Prayers Tears Sacrifices till this sin of theirs was particularly be wailed repented removed and full satisfaction made to the murdered Gibeonites by David and his people by delivering up seven of Sauls Sonnes and Posteritie to be hanged up before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul for this perjurie and bloodshed committed so long before by Saul their Ancestor the principal Malefactor We may justlie fear and conclude that all our prayers tears fasts humiliations will never expiate the manifold open violations of these our Oaths Protestations Leagues Covenants by the murders of our late King and manie thousands of our Protestant Brethren of all sorts for adhering to him his heirs and posteritie the violations of the rights privileges of Parliament beyond all Presidents of former Ages and securing secluding the whole Peers House and Majoritie of the Commons heretofore and now again and trampling our fundamental Laws Liberties Properties Remonstrances Declarations as well as Oaths quite under foot by new Arbitrarie Tyranical Acts Impositions proceedings of all kinds exceeding the worst of our former Kings unlesse all these perjuries treacheries breaches of Oaths Protestations Covenants in this kind be particularly and publickly confessed bewayled reformed repented if not expiated with the like Justice and Executions upon the persons or Sons of some of the most capital Delinquents in this kind to appease Gods wrath and preserve our whole three Kingdomes from utter ruin our perjuries and breaches of all Oaths Faith Trusts being now so generallie and universally infamous throughout the world that FIDES ANGLICA is become as proverbial AS c FIDES PUNICA SCOTICA or HYBERNICA in former Ages to our perpetual infamie Which if this Publication may redresse reform for the future I shall bless God for it and have some hopes of better times things then yet we can possibly expect whiles under the guilt breach of so many contradictory Oathes Protestations Leagues Covenants Ingagements By the antient Oath of Fealty and Allegiance which both the Subjects of England and Kings Bishops Nobles and Subjects of Scotland made to the Kings of England and their heirs as supreme Lords of Scotland in these words Ero fidelis legalis fidemque legalitatem servabo Henrico Edwardo Regi Angliae et Haeredibus suis de vita membris terreno honore contra omnes qui possa it vivere mori Et nunquam pro aliquo portabo arma nec ero in consilio vel auxilio contra eum vel Haeredes suos in aliquo casu qui possit contingere sed fideliter recognoscam et fideliter faciam servitia quae pertinent ad tenementum quod de eo tenere clamito Sic me Deus adjuvet omnes Sanctos ejus Which Oath 1 William King of Scots and all his Nobles swore to King Henry the 2. et Haeredibus suis sicut ligio Domino suo And 2 Iohn Balliol Iohn Comyn with all the Nobles of Scotland to King Edward 1. and his heirs Anno 1293 1294 1297. they all in express terms obliged themselves and their heirs to be true and faithfull Subjects to the King and his heirs Which though valid obligatories in it self to our Kings postertie yet some of our Kings in their life-times made both the Scots and English Subjects to take a new Oath of Fealty and allegiance to their heir apparent and his heirs saving the fealty homage and allegiance done to themselves Thus c William King of Scots with all his Nobles Barons and Knights of Scotland did Fealty and Homage to king Henry the 2. and to Henry his son and his heirs as to his Liege Lords salva fide Domini Regis patris sui Anno 1175. Yea before this Anno 1128. by the commad of king Henry the 1. the Archbishops Bishos Abbots David King of Scots with all the Earls and Barons of England swore homage and sealtie to Maud his daughter and heir ut filiae suae Imperatrici Fide servata regnum Angliae Haereditario jure post dies suos sibi et haeredibus suis legitime procreatis servarent nisi sobolem virilis sexus ipse Rex in posterum procrearet The persidious violation of which Oath by them after King Henries death in crowning Stephen brought * exemplary judgements on the wilfull violaters therof and a bloudy long-lasting civil warr within the bowels of the Realm between Maud her son Henry and the Usurper Stephen to the great oppression devastation desolation of the publique peoples as our Historians observe all the good they hoped for by disinheriting Maud and crowning Stephen upon their own terms against his own and their Oathes becomming void

and null by his perfidiousness through divine Justice which will never permit any good things to spring out of such enormous evils as perjury and treachery which produced sundry judgments and civil wars never ceasing till Henry the right heir was restored to the Crown by a friendly agreement the only probable speedy way not now to end our present wars oppressions distractions Military Government and restore peace and prosperitie in our Nations After this An. 1191. upon the dejection of the insolent Bishop of Ely from his Vicegerentship under King Richard the first e all the Nobles of England assembling together swore Fealty to Richard King of England and to his heir against all men The Citizens of London swore the like Oath and that if King Richard should die without issue they would receive Earl John his Brother for their King and Lord juraverunt ei Fidelitatem contra omnes homines salva fidelitate Regis Richardi fratris sui as Hoveden relates In Claus. 24 H 3. m. 15. dorso soon after the birth of Edward the 1. son and heir apparent to King Henry the third I find this memorable writ issued to all the Sheriffes of England to summon all persons above 12. years old to swear Fealty to him as Heir to the King and to submit themselves faithfully to him as to their Liege Lord after his death Rex Vic. Eborum salutem Praecipimus tibi quod in fide qua nobis teneris et sicut teipsum et omnia tua diligis venire facias ad loca certa ad dies certos sicut commodius fiery potevit Omnes liberos homines de balliva tua aetatis 12. Annorum et supra et eos omnes coram te jurare facias ita quod haec sit forma juramenti sui scilicet Quod ipsi salvo Homagio et fidelitate nostra qua Nobis tenentur cui in vita nostra nullo mode renunciare volumus Fideles eritis Edwardo filio nostre primogenito ita quod side Nobis humanitus contigerit eidem tanquam hearedi nostro et Domino suo ligio erunt fideliter intendentes et eum pro Domino suo ligio habentes Et talem circa hoc exhibeas diligentiam ut inde merito debeatis commendari Teste meipso apud Westm. 24 die Febr. Ann. r. n. 24. Eodem modo scribitur omnibus Vicecomitibus and it appears by Dors. 12. they were summoned and sworn accordingly f In the Parliament of 5 H. 4. rot Parl. n. 13. 17. The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons were sworn to bear faith and true allegiance to the King to the Prince and to his issue and to every one of his Sonnes severally sucéeding to the Crown of England and that of their own accord The like Oath was taken to the King Queen Prince Edward and the Heirs of the Kings body in the Parliament of 38 H. 6. rot Parl. n. 26. And to g Prince Edward Son and heir apparent to King Edward the 4th and his Heirs in the Parliament of 11 E. 4. entred in the Clause Roll of 11 E. 4. m. 1. dorso Yet in point of Law Conscience the first Oathes of Fealty and Allegiance to each of these Kings his heirs and successors * obliged all that took them as firmly to their heirs and successors as their Homages made by them to these Kings or other Lords which extend equally to their heires and shall not be h reiterated nor renewed to them upon this Account unless in some special cases and binde not only those that took them but their heirs and posteritie likewise although they never tooke these Oaths themselves at least to a religious conscientious observation though not to the actual legal penalties of Perjury as Angelus de Clavasio in his Summa Angelica tit. Juramentum 5. sect 24. 40. and other Canonists distinguish and the forecited Scriptures infallibly demonstrate especially being made for the publick good peace settlement of the Kingdom warranted by the policie presidents of all ages prescribed by our Lawes Parliaments for the safetie securitie settlement as well of our Religion Church Kingdoms Government as of our Kings and their posterities and so not o to be violated through fear menaces hopes of worldly gain or preferment nor dispensed with by any Papal or other human power whatsoever the i breach of Oaths Leagues Covenants being A GRAND VICKEDNESSE and high prophanation of the TRUTH FAITHFULNESSE NAME AND CONSTANCY OF GOD HIMSELF as well as transgression of his Law and Gospel deserving the highest temporal and Ecclesiastical censures in this world as well as eternal condemnation in the world to come Ezech. 17. 16 to 22. Jer. 34. Neh 5. 12. 13. 7. Whether the late illegal Oaths Ingagements to the New Republicans and Protectors enforced on the people against their Consciences without any lawfull Parliamentary Authority which only legally make prescribe impose new Oaths upon the Nation as the marginal k Statutes resolve past all dispute being directly contradictorie to their former lawfull Oaths to our Kings their Heirs and Successors be not absolutely void in conscience yea mere prophanings abuses of Gods sacred Name and if taken out of fear or weaknesse no wayes to be observed no more than Davids Oath resolution to slay Nabal with all his Family 1 Sam. 25. or Herods Oath to Herodias which he had more justly violated than observed in beheading John the Baptist Mat. 14. 6 to 13. or those Jews Vow who vowed they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul Acts 23. 21. c. Which sinful Oaths Vows were no wayes to be observed by shedding innocent blood as both the Fathers Councils Canonists Casuists and Scoolmen resolve as you may read at large in Gratian Caus. 22. quest 4. Summa Angelica Tit. Juramentum sect. 3. 45. Peter Lombard Sent. l. 3. distinct 29. most Schoolmen on his Text whose definitive Doctrine is this Si quis alicui juraverit contra fidem charitatem officium quod observatū pejorem vergat in exitum potius est mutandum quam implendum Qui enim sic jurat vehementer peccat cum autem mutat benèfacit Qui autem non mutat dupliciter peccat Et quia injuste juravit et quia facit quod non debet And l that when a man hath once obliged himself by a legal Oath to God and his Soveraign any latter Oath repugnant to or inconsistent with it is unlawfull Upon which account our m Lawbooks and Laws resolve that when ever any man swears Fealty or doth Homage to his Landlord for the Lands held of him it shall be with this special exception saving the Faith which I owe to our Lord the King who is the Soveraign Lord of all his Subjects principally sworn unto and to be obeyed in the first place before all or any others Hereupon n Walter Bishop of Exeter Anno 6 E. 1. for omitting

people throughout the Realm and by all or most Officers and Souldiers of the Army by their Authority We the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in the Commons House of Parliament finding to the great grief of our hearts that the designs of the Priests and Jesuites and other Adherents to the See of Rome have of late been * more boldly and frequently put in practise than formerly to the undermining and danger of the ruine of the true reformed Protestant Religion in his Majesties Dominions established And finding also that there have been and having just cause to suspect that there still are even during this sitting in Parliament * endeavours to subvert the Fundamental Laws of England and Ireland and to introduce the exercise of an Arbitrary and Tyranical Government by most pernicious and wicked Counsels Practises Plots and Conspiracies And that the long intermission and unhappy breach of Parliaments hath occasioned many illegal Taxations whereupon the Subject hath been prosecuted and grieved And that divers Innovations and Superstitions have been brought into the Church multitudes driven out of his Majesties Dominions jealousies raised and fomented betwixt the King and his people a Popish Army levyed in Ireland and two Armies brought into the bowels of this Kingdom to the hazard of his Majesties Royal Person the * consumpsion of the Revenues of the Crown and Treasure of this Kingdom And lastly finding a great cause of Jealousie that endeavours have been and are used to bring the English Army into a Mis-understanding of this Parliament thereby to * incline that Army with force to bring to passe those wicked Counsels have therefore thought good to joyn our selves in a Declaration of our united Affections and Resolutions and to make this ensuing Protestation I A. B do in the presence of Almighty God promise vow and protest to maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may with my life power and estate the true reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realm contrary to the same Doctrine and according to the duty of my Allegiance His Majesties Royal Person Honour and Estate as also the power and privilege of Parliament The lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subject and every person that maketh this Protestation in whatsoever he shall do in pursuance of the same And to my power and as far as lawfully I may I will oppose and by all good wayes and means endeavour to bring to condigne punishment all such as shall either by force practise counsels plots conspiracies or otherwise do any thing to the contrary in this present Protestation contained And further that I shall in all just and honourable waies endeavour to preserve the Vnion and Peace between the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland And neither for hope fear nor other respect shall relinquish this Promise Vow Protestation 7. The next in time is the Solemn League and Covenant taken in the most solemn manner with hands lifted up to heaven and subscribed by all Members of Parliament in England and Scotland by all Civil Military Officers Souldiers and well-affected persons in our three Kingdoms by f sundry special Ordinances of Parliament approving and ratifying the same A Solemn League and Covenant for Reformation and defence of Religion the Honour and Happiness of the King and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland WE Noblemen Barons Knights Gentlemen Citizens Burgesses Ministers of the Gospel and Commons of all sorts in the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland by the Providence of God living under one King and being of one Reformed Religion having before our eyes the glory of God and the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the honour and happiness of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity and the true Publique Liberty Safety and Peace of the Kingdoms wherein every ones private condition is included and calling to minde the treacherous and bloudy plots Conspiracies Attempts and practises of the Enemies of God against the true religion and professors thereof in all places especially in these three kingdoms ever since the reformation of Religion and how much their rage power and presumption are of late and at this time increased and exercised whereof the deplorable estate of the Church and kingdom of Ireland the distressed estate of the Church and Kingdom of England and the dangerous estate of the Church and Kingdom of Scotland are present and publike Testimonies We have now at last after other means of Supplication Remonstrance Protestations and sufferings for the preservation of our selves and our religion from utter ruine and destruction according to the commendable practice of these kingdoms in former times and the Example of Gods people in other Nations after mature deliberation resolved and determined to enter into a mutual and Solemn League and Covenant wherein we all subscribe and each one of us for himself with hands lifted up to the most high God do swear I. THat we shall sincerely really and constantly through the Grace of God endeavour in our several places and callings the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the Example of the best Reformed Churches And shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdoms to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in Religion Confession of Faith Form of Church-Government Directory for Worship and Catechising That we and our posterity after us may as Brethren live in Faith and Love and the Lord may delight to dwell in the midst of us II. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons indeavour the extirpation of Popery Prelacy that is Church-Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops their Chancellors and Commissaries Deans Deans and Chapters Archdeacons and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on that Hierarchy Superstition Heresie Schisme Profaneness and whatsoeuer shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godliness lest we partake in other mens sins and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the three Kingdoms III. We shall with the same sincerity reality and constancy in our several Vocations endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the Rights and Privileges of the Parliaments and the Liberties of the Kingdoms and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms that the world may bear witness with our consciences of our Loyalty and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his Majesties just power and greatness IV. We shall also with all faithfullness endeavour the discoverie of all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or evil Instruments by hindering the reformation of