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A34512 A copie of the covenant both as it was first formed at Edenburgh by the Generall Assembly and Convention of Estates of Scotland, with the concurrence and advice of the commissioners sent thitherout of England, and as it was after reformed by the Lords and Commons of Parliament at Westminister : together with His Majesties proclamation prohibiting the taking of it.; Solemn League and Covenant (1643) 1644 (1644) Wing C6210; ESTC R40871 3,790 8

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the same according to our power against all lets and impediments whatsoever and what We are not able ſ Sc. presently our selves to suppresse or overcome We shall reveale and make known that it may be timely prevented or removed All which We shall do as in the sight of God And because t Sc. both Nations these Kingdomes are guilty of many sinnes and provocations against God and his Son Iesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers the fruits thereof We professe and declare before God and the world our unfeigned desire to be humbled for our own sinnes and for the sinnes of u Sc. both Nations these Kingdomes especially that We have not as We ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that We have not laboured for the purity and power thereof and that We have not endeavoured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walke worthy of Him in our lives which are the causes of other Sinnes and transgressions so much abounding amongst us and our true and unfeigned purpose desire and endeavour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publique and in private in all duties We owe to God and man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a reall Reformation that the Lord may turne away his wrath and heavy indignation and establish x Sc. both Nations these Churches and Kingdomes in Truth and Peace And this Covenant We make in the Presence of Almighty God the Searcher of all hearts with a true intention to performe the same as we shall answer at that great Day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his holy Spirit to this end and to blesse our desires and proceedings with such successe as may be deliverance and safety to his People and encouragement to other Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the yoake of Antichristian Tyranny to joyne in the same or like Association and Covenant to the glory of God the enlargement of the Kingdome of Iesus Christ and the Peace and Traquillity of Christian z Sc. States Kingdomes and Common-wealths ¶ BY THE KING His Majesties Proclamation forbidding the tendering or taking of a late Covenant called A solemne League and Covenant for Reformation c. WHereas there is a Printed Paper entituled A solemne League and Covenant for Reformation and Defence of Religion the Honour and Happinesse of the King and the Peace and safety of the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland pretended to be Ordered by the Commons in Parliament on the twenty first day of September last to be Printed and Published Which Covenant though it seemes to make specious expressions of Piety and Religion is in Truth nothing else but a Traiterous and Seditious Combination against Vs and against the establshed Religion and Lawes of this Kingdome in pursuance of a Traiterous Designe and endeavour to bring in Forraigne Force to invade this Kingdome We do therefore straightly charge and command all our loving Subjects of what degree or quality soever upon their Allegeance that they presume not to take the said Seditious and Traiterous Covenant And We do likewise hereby forbid and inhibit all Our Subjects to impose administer or tender the said Covenant as they and every of them will answer the contrary at their utmost and extremest Perills Given at our Court at Oxford this ninth day of October in the Nineteenth Yeare of our Reigne God save the King