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A93351	The three Kingdomes healing-plaister. Or, The solemne covenant of reformation and defence explained. Wherein is shewed the authority, antiquity, and use of an holy covenant: the occasions moving to it, and the ends in doing it, the necessity of it at this time, for diverse reasons herein expressed. Also a full explanation of each article of the Covenant, to the satisfaction of all: shewing the benefit that may redound by it, viz. Gods protection and blessing to heale our miseries, and establish truth in religion, peace and lasting happinesse to the three kingdomes. Likewise shewing the danger of refusing it, and Gods curse upon us, if we enter into it deceitfully. Imprimatur, Ia. Cranford. By G.S., Gent.	Smith, George, 1602 or 3-1658.	1643 (1643)	Wing S4039; Thomason E71_14; ESTC R460	14,884	18

profitable to both Kingdomes Wee Covenant to them as they to us to endeavour to bring the Kingdomes to the nearest Conjunction that may be still with this proviso according to the word of God and this is an Apostolicall precept Rom. 12. 6. and Rom. 15. 6. Secondly wee Covenant to endeavour to extirpate Popery Prelacy Church Governement by Arch-Bishops Bishops their Chancellors and Commissaries c. depending upon the Hierarchy no otherwise then they shall be found contrary to sound Doctrine which is also an Apostolicall precept bee yee followers of me even as I am of Christ 1 Cor. 11. 1. Now we know to our wofull experience that these have not beene followers of Christ but for gaine as those that followed Christ because they ate of the ●oaves and were filled John 6. 26. and for their private ends would at this day betray Christ whom they pretend to serve having like Alexander and Hymeneus put away good Conscienc● and made ship-wrack of the Faith of Christ and for their Chancellors Commissaries and the rest what are they but fretting Caterpillars in Church and State Such as were never instituted by Christ nor the Apostles nor thought of in the primitive times as for superstirious Heresies Schismes and prophanesse who that would be counted an honest man but will say hee is bound to extirpate our heavenly Father never planted any of these and therefore if we will believe Iesus Christ they must be rooted up Mat. 15. 13. The word Protestant puts us in mind of ou● duty to abhor all herefie and false Worship and therefore a● we are true Protestants we are bound to protest and to endeavour to extirpate Popery Every Christian King every Father and Master in their Families are bound to bring their Subjects Children and Servants to the obedience of the Faith of Christ and the true Worship of God Kings are called nursing Fathers Esay 49. 23. Parents are commanded to teach their Children the Peare of the Lord and his true Worship Deut. 4. 10. And the command of Sanctifying the Lords day is given to the Father and Masters of Families therefore they are not to suffer a contrary Religion or a prophane person to live in their Houses this was the practice of David and is the Duty of all Christian Kings therefore not to tolerate any contrary Religion as Idolaters in their Kingdomes nor witches in their Camps Besides it is Gods command that if any person shall inti●e to Idolatry or any City set up Idolatrous worship that person shal be killed and that City destroyed Deut. 13. 9. 15. This saith reverend Willet is the meaning of the Law in forbidding to sow the field with divers seeds or weare a garment of linnen woollen Levit. 19. 19. We may not plow with an Oxe and an Asse together which Saint Paul expoundeth when he saith be not unequally yoaked 2 Cor. 6. 14. what Communion between light and darknesse what fellowship betweene God and ●●eli●l contrary religions must not be suffered in one Kingdome Abraham cast out scoffing Ismael out of his family Gen. 21. 10. Iacob put away his strange Gods Gen. 35. 2. David put out the Idolatrous lebusites ou● of Ierusalem 2. Sam. 5. 8. Asa put out his Mother Maacha from being Queene because of her Idolatry and brak● downe her Idol 2 King 23. y. Zerubhabel would not admit the Idolatrous Som●r●●anes to joyne with the people of God in building the Temple much lesse would he accept of them in his Army Ezra 4. 3. These are commended in Scripture and blessed of God leftupon divine record for our example and Imitation The third Article of the Covenant is to endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the rights and priviledges of Parliaments in all the three Kingdomes Now we are bound in justice to leave our posterities as free as our Fathers left us what they gained for us with the losse of their lives let us preserve with the hazard of ours to our posterity Againe we covenant to preserve the Kings Person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdome nor let any make scruple a● this clause or ●mitation to preserve the King an the preservation of the true Religion for we cannot nor may not covenant further except we disobey God or covenant against God God commands the King to preserve and defend the true Religion and us to defend the King in defence of Religion not against Religion Let every soule be subject to the highest power Rom. 12. 1. But God is the highest power therefore we must be subject onely to God he must be obeyed the King for God and in God as his Vicegerent if God command obedience to his Deputy much more doth he require obedience to himselfe The fourth Article is to endeavour to discover Malignant evill instruments that hinder the Reformation of Religion divide betweene the King and his people or one of the Kingdomes from another by making Factions and parties amongst the people contrary to this Covenant such as are crafty Achitophels flattering Zi●a's and treacherous Iudases that they may be brought to tryall by the justice of the Law No man not voyd of common nature but would gladly enter into such a Covenant it tending to the generall good both of King and people The fifth Article is to endeavour to maintaine the peace between these Kingdomes to our power in our places and callings to all posterities c. This none can deny but to be agreeable to Scripture and commanded by nature conducing to the height of temporall felicity how good and how pleasant a thing it is for Brethren to d●ell together in Vnity Psal. 133. 1. For there the Lord commandeth a blessing vers. 3. And for the sixth Article to endeavour to assist and defend all that enter into this Covenant in the pursuit thereof is but reason and duty for that we are all members of one body the Church whereof Christ is the head and not onely so but members united by this Covenant to withstand and oppose all the opposition of hell Pope and papacy Now if one member suffer all members should suffer with it or else relieve it If one member be honoured all the members should rejoyce with it 1 Cor. 12. 16. We being but one body and we members one of another Rom. 12. 5. And that we should not be drawne off from this Union by any craft perswasion threatning or terror it is also just and consonant to divine precept for else we maime the body for there is an use of the meanest members and none can say I have not need of thee 1 Cor. 12. 21. For the body is not one member but many vers. 14. And to be Neuters is most base and cowardly hated by men and accounted by God as enemies Mat. 12. 30. Lastly because the generall provoking sins of the Kingdomes are made full by each particular

wherein we sweare fidelity one to another and to God to reforme our evill wayes and walke according to his word in our lives and practice And such a Covenant is part of Gods worship yea it is sometimes in the Scripture put for the whole worship of God Esa. 19. 18. where men bind themselves by Covenant or oath for it is all one to covenant as to sweare to seeke God and to endeavour to doe his whole will sometime God is said to sweare by himselfe in G●n 17. 8. it is said He made a Covenant with Abraham to give him the Land of Canaan and in Exodus 6. 8. it is said Hee sware to give to Abraham the Land of Canaan and He sware to D●vid Psal. 8. 9. 3. and againe I have sworne by my selfe saith the Lord Jer. 49. 13. As God sweares to blesse the obedient so he sweares to destroy the disobedient It is said Heb. 4. 3. that hee swore the rebellious Covenant-breaking Israeli●e should not enter into his rest By Covenants or oaths God binds and engageth himselfe unto men and engageth men to him againe God sware to David and therefore David sware unto the Lord and to the mighty God of Iacob Psal. 132. 2. When God offers to Covenant with us and wee refuse to covenant with him Hee will sweare by himselfe that such a person such a family such a Kingdome shall become a desolation Ier. 22. 5. If we refuse when God calls God will refuse when we aske and will marke when our misery and calamity is upon us Pro. 24. 26. At this time God offers to make a Covenant with us And now he calls from heaven by his Judgements and by his mercies the distractions miseries and calamities of the three Kingdomes cry to us to make our peace with God who is offended for our sinnes when Israel was in capitvity and bondage seaventy yeares for their breach of Covenant with God they were not established untill they renewed their Covenant with God Therefore Ezra prayed and confessed the sinnes of the people with weeping and casting himselfe downe before the house of God the place of covenant and there assembled out of Israel a very great Congregation of men and women and children for the people wept very sore Ezra 10. 1. Now Shechaniah and Ezra consult together and with confidence beleeve that notwithstandig all their sinnes there was hope in Israel concerning this thing Therefore they conclude to make a Covenant with God and Ezra made the chiefe Priests the Levites and all Israel to sweare and they all sware verse 2. 3. 5. Nor was this a new thing to them but that which Moses did by Gods command as we have shewed and after him Ioshua as you may read Ioshua 24. 25. Now the examples of Gods people ought to be our rule especially in those things that are commanded by God himselfe but to covenant with God hath beene the frequent practise of Gods people commanded by God and alwayes with promise and president of acceptance When the Prophet Azariah being stirred up by the Spirit of God to move Asa Iudah and Benjamin to seek the Lord by entring into a covenant tells them The Lord is with you while yee be with him and if ye seeke him he will be found of you but if yee forsake him he will forsake you 2. 1 5. 2. Now to breake Covenant with God or to refuse to make a Covenant with God is all one and is no other then to forsake God it is the Lords owne expression Deut. 31. 16. They will forsake me and breake my Covenant which I have striken with them and what then Then my anger shall be kindled and I will forsake them that is I will hide my face take away my divine presence of protection from them vers. 17. See the example of this 2 King 17. 15. they rejected his Statutes and brake his Covenant What followes see vers. 18. Therefore the Lord was angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight c. Now when a people have broken covenant with God and caused God to depart from them the sure way to find God againe is to seeke him by renewing the covenant else we quite cast him off and then he will cast us off for ever 1 Chron. 28. 9. In the time of King Asa when by the sins and Idolatry of his fathers Israel had beene a long season without the true God and without a teaching Priest and without Law So that there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in but great vexations were upon all the Inhabitants of the Country Yet in all this trouble when they turned to the Lord their God and sought him he was found of them But how did they seeke him see the place 2 Chron. 15. 12. They entred into a Covenant to seeke the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soule and vers. 14 They Sware unto the Lord with a loud voyce and with shouting all Judah reioyced at the Oath for they had sworn with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire and he was found of them and the Lord gave them rest round about vers. 15. So after the great distractions and bloudy cruelties of Athalia that usurping Queene Ieh●iada the Priest established the Kingdome by making a covenant with the Rulers and Captaines and by a covenant between the Lord the King and the people 2 King 11. 4 and 17. and all the people brake downe the Idolls of Baal In like manner Hezekiah confess●●n the iniquities of his fathers and of the people and that for their sins the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem they were delivered to wrath and astonishment 2 Chron. 29. 8. 9. For lo our fathers saith he are fallen by the Sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this here 's their misery and Hezekiahs confession But what is the remedy see verse 10. Now saith the good King It is in my heart to make a Covenant with the Lord God of Israele Why a Covenant That his fierce wrath may turne away from us So he sets upon the worke and puts the Service of the house of the Lord in order that is Reformed Religion and Hezekiah rejoyced and all the people that God had so prepared the people thus to seeke God For saith the Text the thing was done suddenly vers. 35. 36. The like did I●s●●h when he had heard the words of the Law read and considered it he rent his clothes because of the wrath of God for not doing according to that Law therefore he sends to the Prophetesse Huldah to aske counsell who denounced evill against the Inhabitants because they had forsaken God and served Idolls Then Josiah gathered all Judah and Jerusalem and made a Covenant before the Lord to walke after the Lord and to keepe his Commandements c. 2