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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

1. 5. c. 9. 8 32. Ps. 25. 13. Isay 34. 5. c. 44. 3. c. 59. 21. c. 61. 8 9. c. 62. 22. Mal. 2. 4 to 15. c. 4. 6. Acts 2. 39. c. 3. 25. c. 7. 5 45. c. 13. 23. Rom. 4. 13 16. c. 9. 7 8. c. 11. 1 2 27. Gal. 3. 16. to the end Heb. 8. 6 to 11. c. 11. 18. c. 13. 20. Lu. 1. 72 73. Rev. 12. 17. Levit. 26. 9 15 25 42 44. 2 Kings 17. 15 to 41. Psal. 44. 17 18. Ps. 78. 10. 38. Ps. 89. 3. 4 5 34 35. Ps. 103. 17. 18. Ps. 105. 8 10. Ps. 111. 5 9. Isay 24. 5. c 42. 6. c. 49. 8. c. 54. 3. Jer. 11. 2 to 12. c. 22. 9. c. 31. 31. 32 33. c. 29. 10. to 20. c. 33. 20. 21. c. 50. 5. Ezech. 16. 60. 62. c. 37. 28 29. c. 44. 4. Hos. 8. 1. Heb. 6. 16. 17. Therefore mens Oaths Covenants to Kings and their Posterity must likewise bind in succession and perpetuity 2ly Because Gods Oath and Covenant made to David and to his House Royal Seed and Posterity touching their succession in the Royal Throne of Iudah was hereditary successive extending to all his Issue and Posterity and though many of them were wicked rebellious yet this did not cause or provoke God to dethrone or disinherit them or infringe his Oath and Covenant to David 2 Sam. 3. 12. to the end c. 22. 51. 1 Kings 2. 33. Psal. 89. 2 3 33 to 38. Ps. 132. 11 12 13. Ps. 18. 50. Jer. 33. 17 19 20 21. 1 Chron. 28. 4 to 10. Jer. 17. 24 24 25 26. 1 Kings 11. 12. 13 36 39. 2 Kings 8. 9. 2 Chron. 21. 5 6 7. 2 Chron. 23. 3 c. Jer. 23. 4 5. Zezh 9. 9. John 13. 13 15. Lu. 1. 32 33. Therefore much more where Oaths Covenants are made by Subjects to their Hereditary Kings and their Posterity they must remain inviolable and not be abrogated by their transgressions 3ly Because the Oath which Joseph took of his Brethren the children of Israel to carry up his Bones out of Aegypt into Canaan when God should bring them out of Aegypt Gen. 50. 24 25. though not made precisely for them and their Posterity was reputed by Moses and them to be obligatorie to their seed as if made by them even in point of Conscience as is evident by Exod. 13. 19. And Moses took the Bones of Ioseph with him though driven out of Egypt by Pharoah for he had straitly sworn to the Children of Israel saying God will surely visit you and you shall carry up my bones hence with you Which bones of his they by vertue of this Oath notwithstanding Pharoahs pursuit after them carryed along with them through the red Sea and through the wildernesse forty years and through the Land of Canaan till they had quite conquered it notwithstanding all their wars Iosh. 24. 32. near 500 years after this Oath first made If then Moses Ioshua and all the Israelites held themselves thus conscienciously obliged by the Oath of their deceased Ancestors above four hundred years before to carry up Iosephs dead bones out of Aegypt notwithstanding all Objections of hast and danger from Pharoah and his Host their forty years wandring in the wildernesse their wars in Canaan and meanesse of the matter in relation to their publick safety no wayes concerned in it Then much more must our Ancestors and our own particular reiterated Oaths in precise terms to our Kings their Heirs and Successors which so much concern our publick Government Peace Settlement Safety Prosperity engage our whole Kingdom and three Nations to a consciencious observation of them to the uttermost of their power 4ly Because Davids Oath to Saul and Jonathan extended to their seed 1 Sam. 24. 21 22. Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my Fathers House And David swore unto Saul 1 Sam. 20. 14 to 18 42. And Jonathan said to David thou shalt not only while I yet live shew me the kindnesse of the Lord that I die not but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindnesse from my House for ever no not when the Lord hath cut off the Enemies of David every one from the face of the Earth So Jonathan made a Covenant WITH THE HOUSE OF DAVID And Jonathan caused David to swear again because he loved him And Ionathan said to David go in peace for as much as We have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord saying the Lord be beeween thee and me and between thy Seed and my Seed for ever How conscienciously David observed these Oaths after the deaths of Saul and Ionathan is apparent not only by his love favor and affection to Mephibosheth for Jonathans sake whom he restored to all that was Saule made him eat continually at his Table 2 Sam. 9. 1. c. and by his slaying of Baanah and Rechab for murdering Ishbosheth Sauls son his Competitor when they brought his head unto him expecting a great reward 2 Sam. 4. But more especially by his sparing Mephibosheth the Son of Jonathan the son of Saul because of the Lords Oath that was between them between David and Jonathan extending to their seed and posteritie when the Gibeonites demanded 7. of the sons of Saul to be delivered up to them 2 Sam. 21. 5 6 7. 5. Because Esther 9. 27 28 31. The * Iews ordained and took upon them and upon their séed and upon all such as joyned themselves unto them so as it should not fail that they would keep these two dayes of Purim according to their writing and according to their appointed time every year as those in the Parliament of 3 Jac. c. 1. and their Posteritie have observed the 5 of November annually ever since and that those dayes should be remembred and kept throughout every Generation every Family every Province and every City and that those dayes of Purim should not fail from among the Iews nor the memorial of them perish from their séed which they decreed for themselves and for their seed If the whole Nation of the Jewes by an Ordinance and Decree might thus binde their seed posterity to observe the daies of Purim for ever With like reason they might by an Oath Covenant oblige themselves and their posterities for ever to their hereditarie Kings their heirs and posterities for ever And so may we and all other Nations by the like Acts Decrees and the forecited Oathes as is clearly resolved declared enacted by the Statutes of 25 H. 8. c. 22. 26 H. 8. c. ● 28 H. 8. c. 3. 35 H. 8. c. 1. 1 Eliz. c. 1. 3. 5 Eliz. c. 1. 1 Jac. c. 1. 3 Jac. c 4. 7 Jac. c. 6. 6ly Because the president of the Rechabites who upon the command of their Father Ionadab the son of Rechab That neither they nor their Sons for ever should

have a tacit condition in it violated and dispensed within this case it being not simplie evil in its own nature to spare the Gibeonites upon their submission but onlie a prohibited evil by particular Precepts than his Name prophaned dishonoured Religious Oaths wittinglie infringed and perjurie committed by his own people against his moral Law Precept being sinful scandalous in their own nature and of dangerous consequence to all Posteritie if admitted approved to encourage them to commit perjurie and violate all lawfull Oaths Covenants in succeeding Ages to the scandal of Religion and prejudice of Mankind Wherefore this Oath League though against these judicial Precepts not only firmly bound the Princes who made them and all the Congregation in that Age but King Saul himself and all the Israelites in succession four hundred years after Of which we have another President of Joshuaes and the Israelites care to perform their Spies Oaths made to Rahab and sworn unto her by the Lord to save her her Parents Kindred and Family alive though Canaanites devoted by God to destruction Iosh. 2. 1 to 24. compared with c. 6. 21 22 23. Heb. 11. 31. But our Oaths Protestation League Covenant were all made not to or with Amorites or Canaanites particularly deuoted by God to the Sword Slaughter and utter extirpation without any Truce or League of Peace but to and with our own hereditary lawfull Christian Kings their Heirs Posterities and Successors whose Persons Lives Crowns Rights and Royal Authoritie we are all expresly obliged commanded by God himself to defend protect with our own lives fortunes estates to the uttermost of our Powers against all Attempts Treasons Conspiracies Traytors and Invasions whatsoever yea precisely prohibited to offer the least violence injury to their Persons Lives and Regal Authority in thought word or deed Prov. 24. 20 21. Eccles. 8. 2 c. 10. 10. 1 Sam. 24. 3 to 20. c. 26. 8 to 12. 2 Sam. 1. 12 c. c. 4. 10 11 2 Sam. 18 3 c 21 17 Estch 2. 21. 12. 23. c. 6. 2 Rom 13. 1 2. 3. 1 Pet. 2 12. 13 17. Tit. 3. 1 1 Tim 2. 2. 3. John 18 36. Therefore our Oaths League Covenant are much more obliging and conscienciouslie to be observed by us and our Posterities for ever than theirs to the Gibeonites as the only ready way to our peace and settlement 10ly This League of theirs to the Gibeonites was ratified only with one single Oath yet it bound both them and their Posterity but ours to our Kings their Heirs and Successors is ratified with seven successive Oaths Protestations Covenants here recited besides sundry others of like nature taken by our Ancestors in former Ages which I pretermit Therefore much more strong indissoluble obliging to us and our posterities than theirs If a threefold cord be not easily broken Eccles. 4. 12. much more then a sevenfold Oath successively renued should not easily or quicklie be broken but remain inviolable to all posteritie 11. The violation of this Oath League to the Gibeonites by Saul and the Israelites near 400 years after its first making when perchance quite forgotten by them or conceived to be unbinding to them as gotten by surprise as not made or taken by themselves personal to the Gibeonites and Israelites then living when first made or at least expired and grown quite out of date by so long a tract of time was reputed by God himself a great sinne perjury in them and exemplarie punished by God with three years famine on the whole Land though Saul and the Israelites then living never took this Oath nor made that League themselves but onlie their Ancestors so long time before their births Therefore our violations of the forecited Oaths Protestation League Covenant so freshlie made taken sworn subscribed with hands lifted up to Heaven successivelie one after another by whole Parliaments the generalitie of our Nation and not onlie by our deceased Ancestors but by our selves in person and so oft reiterated yet infringed by us time after time in the highest degree most needs be a more detestable damnable Perjurie crime in the eyes of God than theirs and draw a more long-lasting famine and other sorer judgements of God upon our particular Persons * Families Nation than that breach of their Oath and League with the Gibeonites brought down on them 12ly That Oath League continued in force to bind the Israelites both to observation and punishment when violated by King Saul and them after the whole frame of their Government was quite changed from a Principality or Common-wealth as most of our present Grandees would have it into a Kingship and Kingdom by the earnest unanimous desire consent of all the Elders of Israel the generality of the people and by Gods own approbation as is evident by the 1 Sam. c. 8 to c. 13. Josh. 9. 2 Sam. 21. compared together Therefore our Oath Protestation League Covanant forecited must by like reason consequence much more oblige our whole Nation in present and future to our Kings their Heirs and Successors notwithstanding all late violent forcible illegal Alterations Revolutions of our Governments and Governours against the Votes of both Houses of Parliament the desires of the generality of our three Nations since our Laws admit no Interregnum nor Disseisin of the Crown Kingship Kingdom as the Statutes of Praerogativa Regis 1 Iacobi ch. 1. Cooks 7 Rep. f. 10. and u other Lawbooks resolve And so our violations of them must be more perjurious sinfull and exemplarily punishable than theirs 13. This Oath League with the Gibeonites was violated by King Saul only out of zaeel to the Children of Israel Iudah who it seems solicited him thereunto for their own self-ends or advantage yet this was no sufficient excuse nor justification thereof in Gods esteem being punished with exemplarie justice on his posterity and a three years famine upon all the Land Therefore the violation of all our precedent Oaths Protestations Covenants by the Army-Officers confederate Members and their Adherents against the Votes of both Houses the dehortations of our Ministers and desires of our three whole Kingdoms must needs 〈◊〉 a far more detestable crime and be avenged with a more heavy punishment both on them and us than theirs was heretofore 14. This breach of Oath Covenant notwithstanding all circumstances which might extenuate it was most exemplary punished though not on Saul the chief Offendor during his life yet upon seven of his Sons and Family after his death in King Davids Reign 35 years after this Offence committed and upon the whole Nation by a three years famine though it was never infringed but only by one single Act in slaying some of the Gibeonites posterity and not re-violated by any other subsequent slaughter of them Therfore though many of the grand Infringers of the precedent Oaths Protestation Covenant may perchance scape scot-free for a time in their own persons and die without exemplary justice inflicted on them