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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

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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