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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81600	The danger of the Church of England from a general assembly of Covenanters in Scotland. Represented from their principles in oaths, and late acts of assemblies; compar'd with their practices in these last two years. Written in the year 1690. By a true son of the Church.	True son of the church.	1698 (1698)	Wing D179A; ESTC R230519	14,686	35

is surer than that he should be pleaded out of it by pretended Liberty of Conscience and his begun possession is more precious to him than to be satisfied with a dishonourable Toleration All that yet we have seen doth not weaken our confidence of the Lords Glorifying the House of his Glory in these Lands and of his Sons taking unto him his great power and reigning in the beauty and power of his Ordinances in this Island His Name is wonderful and so also his Works we ought not therefore to square them according to our line but leave them to him who hath the Government laid upon his Shoulder all whose ways are Judgment and whose ruling these Kingdoms had never yet reason to decline It is good for us to be stedfast in our Duty and therein quietly to wait and hope for the Salvation of God The word of promise is sure and hath an appointed time that he that will come shall come and will not tarry There is none hath cause to distrust the Lords Word to his People It hath often to our Experience been tryed in the Fire and hath ever come forth with a more Glorious lustre Let not therefore these that suffer in England cast away their confidence they are not the first who have needed patience after that they had done the Lords Will. But let them strengthen the weak hands and confirm the feeble knees and say to the fearful in heart Be strong fear not behold your God will come with Vengeance even God with a recompence he will come and save you Now the Just shall live by Faith whereas those that draweth back or becometh luke-warm in the Lords work his soul shall abhor them and he shall spew them out of his mouth But we perswade our selves of better things of these our brethren in England and prayeth that the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus that great Shepherd of the Sheep through the blood of the everlasting Covenant may make them perfect in every good work to do his will working in them that which is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ to whom be glory for ever Amen These are the Methods taken by the Fathers which the Children of the Covenant may use at this time for introducing a second time their Presbytery among us They may Petition the King that now is for Uniformity in Church-Government in all the three Kingdoms They may send up to our Dissenters in England some Commissioned to treat for that effect They may encourage our Dissenters with their Letters promising assistance in that common concern They may appoint a Publick Fast to amuse the people of Scotland with the apprehensions of Piety in the Work After that they may have the Covenant renewed and disaffecters of that Oath punishable Then they may give out their warning to all sorts of people among them against Neutrality in the prosecution of this part of the Covenant Then Ministers for silence at this Neutrality may be inflicted with Censure And after all their Brethren in England may be exhorted to Zeal and against Toleration And therefore nothing is wanted to represent the danger of our Church of England from the Scottish Covenanters but to demonstrate in the conclusion That as they are obliged by their Principles and Oaths to ruine her and as they are able to follow for that effect the Methods which their Predecessors took so they are willing to do it In the third place That the Scottish Covenanters are willing to ruin this Church of England by the same methods is evident from their practices in these three last years For they who from a Zeal for the Covenant so early petitioned the King for Presbytery in Scotland will for the preservation thereof address to him again that it may be established in England and Ireland They who after Sermons in their publick meetings use to send up prayers to God that the work which they have begun in Covenanted Scotland may be perfected in the other two Kingdoms will not sail to send up Commissioners hither for that effect They who last year procured from the Estates of that Kingdom assembled in Parliament thanks to the Rabble whom they themselves had hunted out against many faithful Ministers will not fail this year to promise their assistance to the Dissenters here They who have already kept a fast in Scotland for their falling from their first Love meaning their Love of Presbytery will certainly institute another at this time that the King and this Kingdom may fall in Love with it too They who have refused to baptize children when their Parents refused to abjure the Scottish Test because that abjures the Covenant cannot but renew the solemn League and persecute those who disaffect it And they whose Doctrine hath been these two last years that the Scottish Nation hath not under Bishops heard the Gospel these 28 years will not fail to exhort against all Neutrality of Covenanters and to censure thus their Ministers who do not Preach against such Defection And after all they who have already excited the Western Zealots of this Kingdom to affront the first Peeress of their Nation for inviting her late Episcopal Pastor to Preach in her Graces Palace when some of their own number had declined to do it are certainly averse from all Toleration even to peaceable Protestant Dissenters FINIS