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A42771 A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are discussed and resolved ... / by Mr. George Gillespie ... ; published by Mr. Patrik Gillespie ... Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.; Gillespie, Patrick, 1617-1675. 1649 (1649) Wing G761; ESTC R8829 216,733 306

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that they shall constantly really and sincerly during all the dayes of their lifetime with their lives and fortunes stand to the performance of it And both Kingdomes have suffered the losse of their goods chearfully laid out their means and laid downe their lives resolutly in pursuance thereof At the Treaty of Vxbridge the propositions for Religion of which the confirming of the Covenant is the first and chiefest were acknowledged to be of such excellency and absolute necessity as they were appointed to be treated of in the first place and that no peace nor agreement should be till they were first agreed unto The same Propositions for Religion are yet set down in the first place amongst the Propositions sent last to the King as being agreed unto by the Parliaments of both Kingdomes And that now the Kings answer to the Propositions is delayed the house of Commons have thought fit to turne the Propositions into Ordinances to shew their constant resolution of adhering thereto and that they may be of greater force and receave the better obedience from the Subjects have converted the Propositions for civill matters into Ordinances and that their zeal and constancy may appear for Religion which is of greatest moment and wherein the glory of God and the good of his Church is most concerned it is desired that the Propositions concerning the Covenant may be likewise turned into an ordinance with a considerable penalty that so we may give some reall evidence that we do not s●…ek the things of this world in the first place and the Kingdome of Heaven and the righteousnesse of it in the last Much lesse that Demas like we forsake it as lovers of this present world Now the grounds and reasons for such an Ordinance may be these 1. It were a great unthankfulnsse to God if after sacred and solemne vowes made in time of our greatest dangers and when after our vowes God hath begun to deliver us and hath dissipated our Enemies we should now grow wearie of paying and performing those vowes We may say of the Covenant as the Prophet said of the laying of the foundation of the second Temple Consider whether from that very day God did not sensibly blesse us and give a testimony from Heaven to his own Cause and Covenant And now shall the Covenant which was our glory and ornament before God and men be laid aside as a worne or moth-eaten garment God forbid 2. If the taking of the solemne League and Covenant bee not enjoyned by authority of Parliaments under a penalty but left arbitrary this were an opening in stead of shutting of the doore unto as many as are apt and inclinable ●…o refuse and oppose the Covenant yea to as many as write or speak against it and maintaine opinions or practises contrary to it The impiety and obstinacy of such persons if not punished but connived at or tacitely permitted by the Parliaments involveth them and the Nation as partakers of the sinne and so consequently of the judgement Although the oath which Ioshua and the Princes of Israel made to the Gibeonites was made unadvisedly and without asking counsell from the mouth of the Lord yet some hundred yeares after being broken that breach brought a nationall judgement till justice was done upon the offenders How much more may a Nationall judgement bee feared if even in our dayes the contempt and violation of a most lawfull and sacred oath bee winked at Surely God will not wink at their sinne who wink at his dishonour Better not to have vowed then not to pay and performe 3. When King Iosiah made a solemne Covenant the effect whereof was a through Reformation the taking away of the ancient and long continued high places the destroying of Baals Vessels Altars Priests c. 2 Kings 23. through out he did not leave this Covenant arbitrary But he caused all that were present in Ierusalem and Benjamine to stand to it 2 Chron. 34. 32. In all which he is set forth as a president to Christian Reformers that they may know their duety in like cases 4. All who did take the solemne League and Covenant are thereby obleiged in their severall places and callings and so the houses of Parliament in their place and calling to endeavour the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Heresie Schisme Superstition and Prophannesse How is this part of the oath of God fulfilled if the Covenant it selfe made for the extirpation of all these be left arbitrary 5. The Vow and Protestation was not left arbitrary For by the vote Iuly 30. 1641. it was resolved upon the question that whosoever would not take that Protestation are declared to be unfit to bear any office in the Church or State which was accordingly published But the solemne League and Covenant must be at least more effectuall then the Protestation for the narrative or preface of the Covenant holdeth forth the necessity of the same as a more effectuall means to be used after other means of Supplication Remonstrance and Protestation 6. This same solemne League and Covenant was not in the beginning left arbitrary for some members were suspended from the house for not taking it And in the Ordinance 2 Feb. 1643. it is ordained and enjoyned that it be solemnly taken in all places throughout the Kingdome of England and dominion of Wales And withall in the instructions and orders of Parliament then sent into the Committees it was appointed that the names of such as refuse it should be returned to the Parliament that they may take such further course with them as they shall thinke fit In the Ordinance of Parliament for Ordination of Ministers both the first and the last Ordinance the person to be ordained is appointed and obleiged to addresse himself to the Presbyterie and bring with him a testimony of his taking the Covenant of the three Kingdomes Again by the ordinance for election of Elders dated the 19. of Aug 1645. No member of any Congregation may concurre or have voice in the choosing of Elders but such as have taken the Nationall Covenant 7. In the first Article of the Treaty between the Kingdomes signed Novemb 29. 1643. 'T is agreed and concluded that the Covenant bee sworne and subscribed by both Kingdomes not that it shall bee taken by as many as will in both Kingdomes but that it shall bee taken by both Kingdomes How shall this be performed if it bee still left arbitrary 8. In the Propositions of peace 't is plainly supposed and intimated that the taking of the Covenant shall bee enjoyned under some penalty Otherwise we have not delt faithfully neither with God nor man in tendering that second Proposition to the King concerning his consent to an act of Parliament in both Kingdomes respectively for the enjoyning the taking of the Covenant by all the Subjects of the three Kingdomes with such penalties as by mutuall advice of both Kingdomes shall be agreed upon 9. If other Propositions of peace be turned into Ordinances