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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71282	Three kingdoms made one by entring Covenant with one God wherein we have these remarkables, worthy all observation : I what it is to Covenant with God, II how hardly his people are drawn into it, III how the Lord has suffered His adversaries from time to time to buffit His people thereinto, IV The height of this covenant above former covenants and reasons why ... / by E.W.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3507; ESTC R21107	47,316	48

day of Jacobs trouble who have sworn and will stand to it To maintain the Cause of the Lord as it shall require and as we read before And there are a people in England too Nobles and Princes there I mean by Princes the Messengers of the Churches and the Glory of Christ who have given up themselves to the Lord and to maintain His Cause some Nobles I say not many but some there are vvho their eternall praise have entred Covenant and will stand to it when others to their eternall dishonour enter into a Covenant to day and break out from it on the morrow stand not to it no not an houre As if they might take the Covenant of God as a Papist takes the Oath of God swear to day and forswear next day Adjure to day calling God to witnesse and perjure anone so blaspheming that Holy Holy Holy Name making the Oath of God like a Gipsies knot fast now in shew loose presently in fight We have some Nobles that do abominate this Blasphemy they enter Covenant with God to day and are more and more resolved and engaged for God and His Cause every day from hence forth and for ever I could say as much of a people too very many in Cities and Towns both a very willing people If they cannot give to the Cause they can die for it as a Martyr said if their estates be none or gon they cannot be prodigall there as the Cause commands then their lives shall go they will be prodigall of their blood and thank God He has honoured them so Who gave His blood for them And so we are where we were in a way which never failed And shall it faile the Righteous now God forbid nay God forgive us such a thought But let us look to our standing now I mean to the standing to our Covenant for that bears up the weight of the businesse This standing to it let us look to that we are now come up to God to His Tearms to His Command not more knit together amongst our selves as knit to God What now Now the Nations are angry Angry They are stark mad look ye on this side and but a little beyond Lincoln and behold how they rage there See also in the South and in Ireland What are the the thoughts of those Monsters there They think to joyn with our Monsters here Monsters Yes They are Nobles many of them True but the more monstrous if Nobles by birth Certainly if those Nobles not to mention the black Regiment those Buls of Bashan nor the Calves of the people Some call them Cavel Gentlemen I have called them Rogues twenty times with an Accent for I will call a Spade a Spade Theeves Robbers Murtherers all these by their names so let them go the vvay of Cain vvho slew his Brother I am a speaking of the Nobles vvho beat their own Mother even her that bare them that suckled them that dandled them upon her knees vvarmed them in her bosome These Nobles vvho have set their Mothers House on fire over her head and are not these Monsters for they have done yet more villany if these Nobles should see their own visage represented unto them now as it vvill be shortly in the very next History they vvould be gastred at the sight of such Monsters as the King was at the vvriting on the vvall Truly me thinks I see them now and they troubled my Spirit and Interrupted me I was saying Dan. 5. 6. The Monsters in Ireland will joyn now vvith these in England will be folden together like thorns vvill come out now against those all vvho are joyned in Covenant with their God and vvill do What vvill they do All the mischief they can They will storm the City of God as they can to their Power That is true They will do vvhat they can do all the Mischief they can But vvhat can they do for vve do not question their will These have shed blood to their Power vvith a Rage that reacheth-up to Heaven They have cursed David and his Helpers by their gods They have blasphemed The God of Heaven They have thrust the Ministers of the Lord out of their Houses or slaughtered His Servants there even All the faithfull in the Land unto vvhom their hand could reach They have gods as Jeroboam had vvhich he called honestly truly and very vvell as vve call Priests now and their gods Calves for such are their Priests Idol-Brutish-Priests Their Services such Idol-Bruitish-Services I vvill ask again vvhat can these cursed People do against a Kingdom united in its self and in Covenant vvith their God What can they do I le tell you what for the Spirit tells it me They vvill Associate and gird themselves and gird themselves all for the Battell and to Storme the Church of God that they Esay 8. 9. will do Well yes very well now hear vvhat the Lord vvill do and vvhat He will do He can do That is a Comfort What vvill He do He vvill ungird His Adversaries as often He will break them and break them and break them t is no idle repetition so often till He has broken them all to Fritters like a Potters Vessell so He vvill break them in breaking He vvill break them Breach upon Breach Briars and Thorns vvill they Array themselves for Battell against the Lord He is a Consuming fire unto them they shall be devoured every one in the Fornace vvhich their rage and fiery indignation against His people has made seven times hotter then ordinary Rebells that have lifted up the horn have spoke proudly have dared to thrust at the Righteous nay The Lord of Glory out of His Throne The Lord will thrust-sore at them He vvill make them like an Oven and their Faces like Flames He vvill purge them out But when Even now at this time we have His word for it for we are in Covenant with our God I will speak an high word and comfortable to the fearfull in heart but humbly before our God and if proud men will hearken let them hearken This is the word and our Confidence Now that we have entred into Covenant with our God To stand close to Him To His Cause To His worship Now that we have engaged our hearts to all this what now Now we have ingaged God to us God must help us We will by His Grace stand to our Covenant and appear for Him It is an high word now to amaze proud men God must appear for us and stand by us and He cannot be idle Must is not for the King you will say yes for the KING of Kings and LORD of Lords This King must help us The unjust judge did right the the Widow must not the Judge of all the world do right He must He must There are Mighty Reasons why and Arguments as strong to assure the hearts of the Faithfull That God will and must help His people now at this time you shall hear

as Thy servant did astonied Thy loving kindnesse has melted their hearts and Thy Goodnesse makes Them fear before thee and now their pursuit is more earnest after Grace then after Glory They would be sanctified thorowout in Bodies souls and spirits Surely Lord Thy servants have the affections of Children towards Thee Thou must be so to them Thou didst love Thy people being Enemies how much more being made Friends one with Thee now in Covenant Truly Lord Thou must love them now Thy people can argue the Case with Thee they have an if now If Thou shewedst such love such aboundant favour to a people when Sinners when Enemies how much rather wilt Thou be the same to them now that they are made Friends so Thou hast taught Thy people to argue with * Deut. 32. 19 Thee because it is Thy Good pleasure to be Overcome Thou say'st we are sinners no such sinners in all the world as are we we say so too and acknowledge it heartily But all this doe's but Commend thy love unto us It is but to advance Thy free Mercy towards us in and through the Lord Jesus Christ our sinnes are hightened indeed no sinnes so highly provoking as our sinnes the sinnes of Sons and Daughters c. But though we could highten them to the utmost yet not above our High and Mighty Redeemer who saveth to the utmost those that come unto Him We have multiplied Transgressions Thou has said I will abundantly multiply to * Esa 557. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We can appeal to and glory in free grace for full pardon pardon Thy people will not let their hold go from off this Argument but they will move Thee with another Our little ones Lord our Children and Sucklings a Seed of evill doers Thou say'st and we say so too But yet Thy heart was towards those in Nineveh Thou didst pitie them We Fathers do so and Mothers doe so As a Father pitieth his Children O it is an exceeding pity There is more pity in God infinitely more And we have more to say why Thou shouldest pitie our little ones They never trampled-under the Pearle They never hid their eyes from the Sabbath They never complied with Thine Enemies They never dealt treacherously with Thy Friends Truly Lord Thou must pitie them And the whole land It is Thy Land now and much people there who are Children in knowledge never had any means to make them Babes in Christ let them know they had a Prophet amongst them Give us Bishops indeed Curates indeed who can naturally care for thy people as a Father for his Children Truly Lord we do confesse a wicked heart has deceived us But this is Truth also our Guides have misguided us they were appointed as fathers spirituall fathers unto us We poor ones thought verily we might follow our Guides we might trust our fathers Ah Lord bloody Fathers have they been to us bloody fathers These were appointed Leaders to go before us They went before us and we followed and down we were tumbled all into the Ditch and there like swine we lay in the myre Good Lord pitty a poor dark ignorant people Give us good Lord Bishops indeed Curate spirituall fathers indeed Trust Thy people with such a mercy Thou knowest the hearts of the Children of men we think had we such Leaders we should walk orderly had we such a mercy let down unto us vve should be drawn up unto Thee Alas Lord what desire Can we have after that which we know not we never saw our Bishops do any thing but what we see plainly now deceived us we saw him Cringing and ducking before a Table which he called an Altar and then we observing all that thought we might call it a god he bad us indeed carry our selves circumspectly and reverently in the Church especially towards the Chancell for there was a providentiall eye over us Dr. Valentine seducer of the people in Detford which he had * with our cost painted-up in our window This was all we have seen our Bishops and Curates do before us in the place they call the Church And for that we have heard we professe in thy presence That we never heard a word of thy sacred Scripture opened unto us by them not a word touching the Things of the Lord Christ made they known to us not a word Dead preaching without the Book or clean crosse to thy Book Good Lord thrust out these and give us Pastors after thine own heart We know Lord what thou wilt say now Ye have had Bishops and Curates after your own hearts like People like Priests Sottish people brutish Priests They desiled My house and polluted my Sabbaths and you loved to have it so Truth Lord and herein we are at a stand for we cannot plead ignorance we cannot say the times of this ignorance c Acts 17 30. We have rebelled against the light and groped at mid-day as at midnight To confesse all at once We have polluted Thy Sabbaths and then all vvas polluted even Thy whole land Throughout and most just it were That Thou shouldest require this of us and dung our land throughout with our Carkasses and water it with out blood from corner to corner Just it vvere that thy plagues should abide should rest on us for we have polluted thy Rest just it were that our land should keep it Sabbaths now lye Fallow without an Inhabitant there to plow it up This were Justice But remember Lord That this horrible prophanation vvas not so much our sinne as the sinne of our Bishops and Curates Their sinne Lord who told us vve might Fiddle and Dance and Riot on Thy Day and that such man like exercises would make us fit for Warre Nay they did not only tell us so but they did force Thy servants to do all the world knows what To prescribe grievousnesse To counter-mand Thy Command and this in thine own house Truly Lord we could plead vvith Thee here We poor simple ones thought verily vve might trust our Bishops and Curats do as they did and commanded us to do their words came as Oracles to us We suspected Bishops as Lords ever but never as fathers we did not suspect That fathers they vvould give us for bread a stone for a fish a serpent Spirituall Fathers so they vvere called too vve could not imagine that Spirituall Fathers would command their children to walk as men and live as beasts Good Lord though we vvere content to have it so yet spare Thy people but spare not those Bishops and Curats who have made yea forced Thy Israel to sin and pitty the land and its Inhabitans vvho sit in darknesse and see no light vvho seek for bread now in desolate places where they are more like to meet with grievous Wolves then with bread Good Lord pitty the land a barren land Barrennesse Barrennesse as the places whereon never fell dew nor rain Truly Lord Thou must pitty Thy land Thou