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A33126	A solemne league and covenant, for reformation, and defence of religion, the honour and happinesse of the king, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of Scotland, England, and Ireland.; Solemn League and Covenant (1643)	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.	1643 (1643)	Wing C4264; ESTC R38179	3,069	8

1643 a Solemn LEAGVE AND COVENANT for Reformation and defence of Religion the Honour and happinesse of the king and the Peace and safety of the three kingdoms of ENGLAND SCOTLAND and IRELAND 〈◊〉 50.5 Come let us joyn ourselves to the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall not be forgotten 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 vnder one king and being of one reformed Religion having before our eyes the Glory of God and the advancement of the kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ the Honour and happinesse of the kings Maiesty 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 bloody Plots Conspiracies Attempts and Practices of the Enemies of God against the true Religion and professors the roof 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 state 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 publique 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 those Kingdoms in former times and the Example of Gods people in other Nations After mature deliberation resolved and determined to enter into a mutuall and solemn Legue and Covenant Wherein we all subscribe and each one of us for himself with our hands lifted up to the most high God do sweare I That we shall sincerely really and constantly through the Grace of God endeavour in our severall places and callings the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline Government against our comon Enemies the reformation of Religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the Example of the best Reformed Churches And shall indeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three kingdoms to the neerest coniunction and Uniformity in Religion Confession of Faith Form of Church-gouernment 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 middest of us Thou hast avouched the Lorde this day to be thy God and to walke in his wayes to keepe his Statutes his Commandments his Iudgements to hearken to his woyce And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people to make thee high aboue all nations in praise in name in honour Deutero 26 17 18 II. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons indeavour the extirpation of Popery Prelacie that is Church-government by Arch-Bishops Bishops their Chancello rs and Comissaries Deans Deans and Chapters Archdeacons all other Ecclesiasticall Officers depending on that Hierarchy Superstition Heresie Schisme Prophanenesse and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godlinesse lest we partake in other mens sins and therby be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may be one and his Name in the three kingdoms Euery plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out Math. 13 III. We shall with the same sincerity reallity and constancy in our severall Vocations endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliaments and the Liberties of the kingdomes and to preserve and defend the kings Maiesties person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the kingdomes that the World may beare witnesse with our consciences of our Loyaltie and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his Maiesti es iust power and greatnesse The Lord will Create vpon euery dwelling place of Mount Sion upon her Assemblies a Cloud and smoke by day and a shining of a flaming Fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defens Isaiah 4 5 Are to be sold by Thomas Penner at the Royall Exhange IV We shall also with all faithfulnesse endeavour the discovery of all such as have beene or shall be Incēdiaries Malignants or evill Instruments by hindering the Reformation of Religion dividing the king from his people or one of the kingdoms from another or making any Faction or parties amongst the people contrary to this league Couenant that they may be brought to publick triall and receive condigne pumishmēt as the degree of their offēces shall require or deserve or the supreā Iudicatories of both kingdoms respectively or others having power from them for that effect shall iudge cōvenient I will purge out from among you the Rebells them that transgresse against me I will bring them forth out of the Country where they soiourne Ezekiel 20 37. 38 V And whereas the happinesse of a blessed Peace between these kingdoms denyed in former times to our Progenitors is by the good Providence of God granted unto us and hath been lately concluded and selled by both Parliaments we shall each one of us according to our place and interest indeavour that they may remain conioyned in a firm Peace an Union to all posterity And that Iustice may be done upon the wilfull Opposers thereof in manner expressed in the precedent Article A threefold corde is not easily broken England Scotland Ireland VI. We shall also according to our places callings in this common cause of Religion Liberty and Peace of the kingdomes assist and defend all those that enter in to this League and Covenant in the maintainīg pursuing thereof and shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to be dewided withdrawn from this blessed Uniō coniungtion whether to make defection to the contrary part or to give our selves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause which so much cōcerneth the glory of God the good of the kingdoms and honour of the king but shall all the dayes of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to our power against all Lets and impediments whatsoever an what we are not able ourselves to suppresse or overcome we shall reveale and make known that if may be timely prevented or removed All which we shall do as in the sight of God And his heart shall be against the holy Covenant Dan 11 28 〈◊〉 the Covenant no no And because these kingdoms are guilty of many sins provocations against God his Son Iesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers the fruits thereof We professe and declare before God and the world our unfayned desire to be humbled for our for the sins of these kingdoms especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that we have not laboured for the purity and power thereof and that we have not endeavored to receive Christ in our hearts not to walk worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of other sins and transgressions so much abounding amongst us And our true and unfayned purpose desire and endeavour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publick and in private in all duties we owe to God and man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the Example of a reall Reformation that the Lord may turne away his wrath and heavy indignation and establish these Churches and kingdoms in truth and peace And this Covenant we make in the presence of almighty God the Searcher of all hearts with a true intention to performe the same as we shall answer at that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed Most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his Holy Spirit for this end and to blesse our desires and procedings with such successe as may be deliverance and safety to his people encouradgement to other Christian Churches groaning under or in dāger of the yoake of Anti-christian Tyranny to yoyne in the same or like Associatiō and Covenant to the glory of God the enlargement of the kingdo me of Iesus Christ and the peace and tranquility of Christiā kingdoms Com̄onwealths I am shee I am not hee Come let 's go to the 〈◊〉 Come let us goe up to the mountaine of the Lord in the howse of the God of Iacob he will teach us of his waies 〈◊〉 will walke in his paths Micah 4 2