the Coronation The King answered hee was most willing Then the Oath of Coronation as it is contayned in the eight Act of the first Parliament of King IAMES being read by the Lyon The Tenour whereof followeth Because that the increase of Vertue and suppressing of Idolatrie craveth That the Prince and the people bee of one perfect Religion which of GODS Mercie is now presentlie professed within this Realme Therefore it is statuted and ordayned by our Soveraigne Lord my Lord Regent and three Estates of this present Parliament That all Kinges Princes and Magistrats whatsoever holding their place which here-after at any tyme shall happen to Reigne and beare rule over this Realme at the tyme of their Coronation and reâ—eat of their Princelie Authoritie make their faythfull promise in presence of the Eternall GOD That enduring the whole course of their lyves they shall serve the same Eternall GOD to the vttermost of their power according as hee hath requyred in His Most Holy Word revealed and contayned in the New and Old Testaments And according to the same Word shall mayntayne the True Religion of CHRIST IESVS the preaching of His Holy Word and due and right ministration of the Sacraments now receaved and preached within this Realme And shall abolish and gaynst and all false religions contrary to the same And shall rule the people committed to their charge according to the will and command of GOD revealed in His foresayd Word and according to the Loveable Lawes and Constitutions receaved in this Realme no wayes repugnant to the sayd Word of the Eternall GOD And shall procure to the vttermost of their power to the Kirk of GOD and whole Christian people true and perfect peace in tyme comming The Rights and Rents with all just Priviledges of the Crowne of Scotland to preserve and keepe inviolated Neither shall they transfer nor alienate the same They shall forbid and represse in all Eâ—ates and degrees reafe oppression and all kynd of wrong In all judgementes they shall command and procure that justice and equitie bee keeped to all creatures without exception as the LORD and Father of Mercies bee mercifull vnto them And out of their Landes and Empyre they shall bee carefull to roote out all Hereticks and enemies to the True Worship of GOD that shall bee convict by the True Kirk of GOD of the foresayd crymes And that they shall faythfullie affirme the things above written by their Solemne Oath The Minister tendered the Oath unto the King who kneeling and holding up his right hand sware in these wordes By the Eternall and Almightie GOD Who liveth and reigneth for ever I shall observe and keepe all that is contayned in this Oath This done the Kinges Majestie sitteth downe in his Chaire and reposeth himselfe a little Then the King aryseth from his Chaire and is disrobed by the Lord Great Chamberlaine of the Princelie Robe Where-with hee entered the Kirk and is invested by the sayd Chamberlaine in his Royall Robes There-after the King being brought to the Chaire on the North syde of the Kirk supported as formerlie the Sword was brought by Sir William Cockburne of Langtown Gentleman Usher from the Table and delyvered to Lyon king of Armes Who giveth it to the Lord Great Constable who putteth the same in the Kinges hand saying SIR Receave this kinglie Sword for the Defence of the Fayth of CHRIST and protection of His Kirk and of the True Religion as it is presentlie professed within this kingdome and according to the Nationall Covenant and League and Covenant and for executing Equitie and Justice and for punishment of all iniquitie and injustice This done the Great Constable receaveth the Sword from the King and girdeth the same about his syde There-after the King sitteth downe in his Chaire and then the Spurres were put on him by the Earle Matishall There-after Archibald Marquis of Argyle having taken the Crown in his handes the Minister prayed to this purpose That the LORD would purge the Crowne from the sinnes and transgressions of them that did reigne before Him That it might bee a pure Crowne That GOD would settle the Crowne vpon the Kinges head And since men that set it on were not able to settle it That the LORD would put it on and preserve it And then the sayd Marquis put the Crown on the Kings head Which done the Lyon king of Armes The Great Constable standing by him causeth an Herauld to call the whole Noble men one by one according to their rankes who comming before the King kneeling and with their hand touching the Crowne on the Kinges head sware these wordes By the Eternall and Almightie GOD who liveth and reigneth for ever I shall support thee to my vttermost And when they had done then all the Nobilitie held up their handes and sware to bee loyall and true subjects and faythfull to the Crown The Earle Marishall with the Lyon going to the four corners of the Stage The Lyon proclaymeth the Obligatorie Oath of the People And the People holding up their handes all the tyme did sweare By the Eternall and Almightie GOD who liveth and reigneth for ever wee become your liedge men and Trueth and Fayth shall beare vnto you and live and die with you against all manner of folkes what-so-ever in your service according to the Nationall Covenant and solemn League and Covenant Then did the Earls and Vicounts put on their crowns and the Lyon lykewayes put on his Then did the Lord Chamberlayne loose the Sword where-with the King was girded and draw it and delyver it drawne into the Kinges handes and the King put it in the hands of the Great Constable to carrie it naked before him Then Iohn Earle of Craufurd Lindsay took the Scepter and put it in the Kinges right hand saying SIR Receave this Scepter the sign of Royall Power of the Kingdom that you may govern your selfe right and defend all the Christian People committed by GOD to your Charge punishing the wicked protecting the just Then did the King ascend the Stage attended by the Officers of the Crown and Nobilitie was installed in the Royall Throne by Archibald Marquis of Argyle saying Stand hold fast from henceforth the place whereof you are the lawfull righteous Heir by a long and lineall succession of your fathers which is now delyvered vnto you by authoritie of Almightie GOD When the King was set down upon the Throne the Minister spoke to him a word of Exhortation as followeth SIR You are set down vpon the Throne in a verie difficill tyme I shall therefore put you in mind of a Scripturall expression of a Throne 1. Chron. 29. 23. it is sayd Solomon sate on the Throne of the LORD Sir you are a king and a king in Covenant with the LORD If you would have the LORD to own you to be his king your Throne to be his Throne I desire you may have some thoughts of this expression 1. It is
who sayeth of them Is 62. 3. Thou shalt bee a Crowne of glorie in the hand of the LORD and a Royall Diademe in the hand of thy GOD CHRIST accounteth His people his Crowne and Diademe So should a king esteeme the people of the LORD over whom hee ruleth to bee his Crowne and Diademe Take away the people and a Crowne is but an emptie symbole 3. A king when hee getteth his crowne on his head should thinke at the best it is but a fading crowne All the crownes of kinges are but fading crownes Therefore they should have an eye upon that Crowne of glorie that fadeth not away 1. Pet. 5. 4. And upon a Kingdome that cannot bee shaken Hebr. 12. 28. That crowne and kingdome belongeth not to kinges as kinges but unto believers and a believing king hath this comfort that when hee hath endured a whyle and been tryed hee shall receave the Crowne of Lyfe which the LORD hath promised to them that love Him The second thing in this Solemnity is the Testimonie by this is meant the Law of GOD so called because it testifieth of the Mynde and Will of GOD It was commanded Deut. 17. 18. 19. When the king shall sit upon the Throne of his kingdome hee shall wryte him a copie of the Book of the Law and it shall bee with him that hee may reade therein all the dayes of his lyfe The king should have the TESTIMONIE for these three maine uses 1. For his information in the wayes of GOD Deut. 17. 19. This use of the kinges having the Book of the Law is expressed that hee may lèarne to feare the LORD his GOD The reading of other books may doe a king good for governement but no book will teach him the way to salvation but the Booke of GOD CHRIST biddeth Search the Scriptures for in thom yee thinke to have aeternall lyfe and they testifie of Mee John 5. 39. Hee is a Blessed man who meditateth in the Law of the LORD day and night Psal. 1. 1. 2. King DAVID was well acquainted here-with as appeareth Ps. 119. Kinges should bee well exercised in Scripture It is reported of Alphonsus king of Arragon that hee did reade the BIBLE fourteene tymes with glosses there-upon I recommend to the king to take some houres for reading holie Scripture It will bee a good meane to make him acquaynt with GODS Mynd and with CHRIST a Saviour 2. For his direction in governement kinges reade bookes that they may learne to governe well which I condemne not but all the bookes a king can reade will not make him governe to please GOD as this Booke I know nothing that is good in governement but a king may learne it out of the Booke of GOD For this cause IOSHUA is commanded IOS. 1. 8. That the Booke of the Law shall not depart out of his mouth and hee is commanded to Doe according to all that is written there-in Hee should not onlie doe himselfe that which is written in it but doe and governe his people according to all that is written in it King DAVID knew this use of the Testimonie who sayd Psal. 119. 24. Thy Testimonies are my delight and my Counsellours The best Counsells that ever a king getteth are in the Booke of GOD Yea the Testimonies are the best surest Counsellours Because although a kinges Counsellours bee never so wyse and trustie yet they use not to bee so free with a king as they ought But the Scriptures will tell kinges verie freelie both their sinne and their duetie 3. For preservation and custodie The king is Custos vtriusque Tabulae The keeper of both Tables Not that hee should take upon him the power either to dispense the Word of GOD or to dispense with it But that hee should preserve the Word of GOD and true Religion according to the Word of GOD pure intier and uncorrupted within his Dominions and transmit them so to posteritie And also bee carefull to see his Subjectes observe both Tables and to punish the transgressours of the same The third thing in this Solemnitie is the anoynting of the king The anoynting of kings was not absolutelie necessarie under the Old Testament for wee reade not that all the kinges of IUDAH and ISRAEL were anoynted The HEBREWES observe that anoynting of kinges was used in three cases 1. When the first of a Familie was made king as SAUL DAVID 2. When there was a question for the Crowne as in the case of SOLOMON and ADONIâ—AH 3. When there was an interruption of the lawfull succession by usurpation as in the case of IOASH there is an interruption by the usurpation of ATHALIAH therefore hee is anoynted If this Observation holde as it is probable then it was not absolutelie necessarie under the OLD TESTAMENT and therefore farre lesse under the NEW Because it may bee sayd That in our case there is an interruption by usurpation Let it bee considered That the Anoynting under the OLD TESTAMENT was typicall Although all kinges were not types of CHRIST yet the Anoynting of kinges Priests and Prophets was typicall of CHRIST and His Offices But CHRIST being now come all these Ceremonies ceasse And therefore the Anoynting of kinges ought not to bee used in the NEW TESTAMENT If it bee sayd Anoynting of kinges hath been in use amongst Christians not onlie Papistes but PROTESTANTS as in the kingdome of ENGLAND and our late king was anoynted withoyle It may bee replyed They who used it under the NEW TESTAMENT tooke it from the Jewes without warrand It was most in use with the Bishops of Rome who to keepe Kinges and Emperoures subject to themselves did sweare them to the Pope when they were anoynted and yet the Jewish priests did never sweare kinges to themselves As for ENGLAND although the Pope was casten off yet the subjection of kings to Bishops was still retayned for they anoynted the king and sware him to the mayntenance of their praelaticall dignitie They are here who were witnesses at the CORONATION of the late king The Bishops behoved to performe that rite and the king behoved to bee sworne to them But now by the Blessing of GOD Poperie and Praelacie are removed The Bishops as limmes of Antichrist are put to the doore Let the Anoynting of kinges with oyle goe to the doore with them and let them never come in agayne The anoynting with materiall oyle maketh not a king the Anoynted of the LORD for hee is so without it Hee is the ANOYNTED of the LORD who by Divine Ordinance and appoyntment is a King Is 45. 1. GOD calleth CYRUS His anoynted yet wee reade not that hee was anoynted with oyle Kinges are the Anoynted of the LORD because by the Ordinance of the LORD their authoritie is sacred and inviolable It is enough for us to have the thing though wee want the Ceremonie which being layd asyde I will give some Observations of the thing 1. A King being the LORDS anoynted should bee thinking upon a better
the LORDS Throne Remember you have a king above you The King of Kings Lord of Lords who commandeth thrones He setteth kinges on thrones dethroneth them at His pleasure Therefore take a word of advice Be thankfull to Him who hath brought you thorow many wanderings to set you on this Throne Kisse the Sonne lest Hee bee angrie and learne to serve Him with feare who is terrible to the kings of the earth 2. Your Throne is the LORDS Throne and your people the LORDS People Let not your heart bee lifted vp above your brethren Deutr. 17. 20. They are your brethren not onlie flesh of your flesh but Brethren by Covenant with GOD Let your Government bee refreshing vnto them as the rayn on the mowen grasse 3. Your Throne is the TORDS Throne Beware of making his Throne a Throne of iniquitie There is such a Throne Psal. 94. 20. Which frameth mischiefe by a Law GOD will not owne such a Throne It hath no fellowship with Him Sir There is too much iniquitie vpon the Throne by your Predecessours who framed mischiefe by a Law such Lawes as have beene destructive to Religion and grievous to the LORDS People You are on the Throne have the Scepter beware of touching mischievous lawes therewith But as the Throne is the LORDS Throne let the Lawes be the LORDS Lawes agreeable to His Word such as are terrible to evill doers and comfortable to the Godlie and a reliefe to the Poore and oppressed in the Land 4. The LORDS Throne putteth you in mynd whom you should have about the throne Wicked Counsellours are not for a king vpon the LORDS Throne SOLOMON knew this who sayd Prov. 25. 5. Take away the wicked from before the King and his Throne shall bee established in Righteousnesse And Prov. 20. 8. A King upon the Throne scattereth away all evill with his eyes 5. The LORDS Throne putteth you in mynd that the Judgement on the Throne should be the LORDS Take the exhortation Jer. 22. from the beginning The Prophet hath a cōmand to goe to the house of the king of Judah and say Heare the Word of the LORD O king of Iudah that sittest upon the Throne thy servants thy people Execute ye judgement righteousnes delyver the spoyled out of the hand of the oppressour doe no wrong do no violence to the strāger the fatherles nor the widow neither shed innocēt blood in this place If ye do this thing indeed then shall there enter by the gates of this house kings sitting upon the Throne of DAVID But if yee will not heare these Wordes I sweare by My Selfe sayeth the LORD This house shall become a desolation And vers. 7. I will prepare destroyers agaynst thee SIR Destroyers are prepared for the injustee of the Throne I intreat you execute Righteous Judgement if you doe it not your house will bee a Desolation But if you doe that which is right GOD shall remove the Destroyers And you shall bee established on your Throne And there shall yet bee Dignitie in your House for your servants and for your people Lastlie If Your Throne bee the Throne of the LORD Take a word of encouragment agaynst Throne Adversaries Your enemies are the enemies of the LORDS Throne Make your peace with GOD in CHRIST and the LORD shall scatter your enemies from the Throne And Hee shall magnifie you yet in the sight of these Nations and make the misled people submit themselves willinglie to Your Governement SIR If You vse well the LORDS Throne on which you are set then the two words in the place cited 1. Chron. 29. 23. spoken of Solomon sitting on the Throne of the LORD Hee prospered and all Israel obeyed him shall belong vnto you Your people shall obey you in the LORD and you shall prosper in the sight of the Nations round about Then the Lord Chancellour went to the four corners of the Stage The Lyon king of Armes going before him and proclaymed his Majesties Free Pardon to all Breakers of Penall Statutes and made offer thereof Whereupon the people cryed GOD SAVE THE KING Then the King supported by the Great Constable and Marishall and accompanied with the Chancellour arose from the Throne went out at a door prepared for the purpose to a Stage and showed himselfe to the people without who clapped with their handes and cryed with a lowd voyce a long tyme GOD SAVE THE KING Then the King returning sitting down upon the Throne delyvered the Scepter to the Earle of Craufurd and Lindsay to bee carried before him Thereafter the Lyon king of Arms rehearsed the Royall Lyne of the Kings upward to FERGUS the first Then the Lyon called the Lords one by one who kneeling and holding their hands betwixt the Kings hands did sweare these words By the Eternall and Almightie GOD who liveth and reigneth for ever I doe become your Liedge man and Trueth and Fayth shall beare vnto you and live and die with you agaynst all manner of Folkes whatsoever in your service according to the Nationall Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant And everie one of them kissed the Kings left cheek When these Solemnities were ended The Minister standing before the King on his Throne pronounced this Blessing The LORD blesse thee and save thee The LORD heare thee in the day of Trouble The Name of the GOD of Jacob defend thee The LORD send thee helpe from the Sanctuarie and strengthen thee out of Sion Amen After the Blessing pronounced the Minister went to the Pulpit and had the following Exhortation The King sitting still upon the Throne Yee have this day a King crowned and entered into COVENANT with GOD and his people Look both King and People that yee keep this COVENANT and beware of the breach of it That yee may bee the more carefull to keep it I will lay a few things before you I remember when the Solemn League Covenant was entered by both Nations The Cōmmissionars from ENGLAND being present in the East Kirk of Edinburgh a passage was cited out of Nehem. 5. 13. Which I shall now agayn cite Nehemiah requyreth an Oath of the Nobles and people to restore the morgaged lands which they promised to doe After the Oath was tendered in the 13. vers. hee did shake his lap and sayd So GOD shake out every man from his house from his labour that performeth not his promise even thus bee hee shaken out and emptied And all the Congregation sayd Amen Since that tyme manie of these who were in Covenant are shaken out of it yea they have shaken of the Covenant and layd it asyde It is true they are prospering this day and think that they prosper by laying aside the Covenant But they wil be deceaved That word spoken then shall not fall to the ground GOD shall shake them out of their possession and emptie them for their perfidious breach of the Covenant The same I say to King and Nobles and
all that are in Covenant If you break that Covenant being so solemnly sworn All these who have touched your Crown sworn to support it shall not be able to hold it on but GOD will shake it off turn you from the Throne And ye Noble-men who are assistant to the putting on of the Crown setting the King upon the Throne if yee shall either assist or advyse the King to break the Covenant over-turne the Work of GOD hee shall shake you out of your possessions and emptie you of all your glorie Another passage I offer to your serious consideration Jer. 34. 8. After that Zedekiah had promised to proclaime libertie to all the LORDS People who were servants entered in a Covenant hee his Princes to let them goe free and according to the Oath had let them goe Afterwards they caused the servants to returne and brought them into subjection vers. 11. What followeth upon this breach vers. 15. 16. Ye were now turned had done right in my sight in proclaiming libertie but yee turned made them servants again And therefore vers. 18. 19. 20. 21. I will give the men who have transgressed My Covenant who have not performed the wordes of the Covenant which they made before Me when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof I will even give them into the hands of their enemies into the hand of them that seek their lyfe even Zedekiah and his Princes If the breach of a Covenant made for the Libertie of Servants was so punished what shall bee the punishment of the breach of a COVENANT for Religiō the liberty of the people of GOD There is nothing more terrible to King and Princes then to be given into the hand of enemies that seek their lyfe If yee would escape this judgement Let King and Princes keep their Covenant made with GOD Your enemies who seeke your lyfe are in the Land if yee breake the COVENANT it may bee feared GOD give you over unto them as a prey But if yee keepe COVENANT it may bee expected GOD will keepe you out of their hands Let not the place ye heard opened bee forgotten for in it yee have an exemple of Divine Iustice agaynst Joash and the Princes for breaking that COVENANT 2. CHRON. 24. 23. The Princes who intised to that Breach are destroyed and in the 24. vers. it is sayd The armie of the Syrians came with a small companie of men and the LORD delyvered a verie great hoste in their hand because they had forsaken the LORD GOD of their fathers So they executed judgement agaynst Joash And vers. 25. His owne servantes conspired agaynst him and slew him on his bed c. The Conspiracie of Servants or Subjects against their king is a wicked course But GOD in His Righteous Iudgement suffereth Subjects to conspire and rebell agaynst their Princes because they rebell against GOD And Hee suffereth Subjects to break the Covenant made with a king because hee breaketh the Covenant made with GOD I may say freely that a chief cause of the judgement upon the kings house hath been the Grand-fathers breach of Covenāt with GOD the fathers following his steps in opposing the work of GOD his Kirk within these kingdoms They broke Covenant with GOD and men have broken Covenant with them Yea most cruellie and perfidiouslie have invaded the Royall Familie and trodden upon all Princelie Dignitie Bee wyse by their exemple You are now sitting upō the Throne of the kingdom your Nobles about you there is one above you even JESVS the King of Sion and I as His servant dare not but be free with you I charge you Sir in His Name That you keep this Covenant in all points If you shall break this Covenant and come agaynst His Cause I assure you the Contraversie is not ended between GOD and your familie But will be carried on to the further weakening if not the over-throw of it But if you shall keep this Covenant and befriend the KINGDOM of CHRIST It may bee from this day GOD shall begin to doe you good Although your estate bee verie weake GOD is able to rayse you and make you reigne maugre the opposition of all your enemies And how-so-ever it shall please the LORD to dispose you shall have peace toward GOD through CHRIST the MEDIATOR As for you who are Nobles and Peeres of the Land your share is great in this day of Coronation yee have come and touched the Crowne and sworne to support it yee have handled the Sword and the Scepter and have set down the King upon his Throne 1. I charge you to keepe your Covenant with GOD and see that yee never bee moved your selves to come agaynst it in anie head or article thereof and that yee give no counsell to the king to come against the Doctrine Worship Government Discipline of the Kirk established in this Land as ye would eschew the judgement of Covenant breakers If the King ye who are engaged to support the Crowne conspire together against the Kingdome of CHRIST both yee that doe support hee that is supported will fall together I presse this the more because it is a rare thing to see a king great men for CHRIST In the long Catalogue of kings which yee have heard recited this day they will bee found few who have beene for CHRIST 2. I charge you also because of your many Oathes to the king That you keep them inviolablie Bee faythfull to him according to your Covenant The Oathes of GOD are upon you if directlie or indirectlie yee doe anie thing agaynst his Standing GOD by whom yee have sworne will bee avenged upon you for the breach of His Oath And now I will shut up all with one word more to You SIR You are the only Covenanted king with GOD His People in the world many have obstructed Your entrie in it Now seing the LORD hath brought You in over all these Obstructions Only observe to doe what is contayned therein and it shall prove an happie tyme for You and Your House And because You are entered in tymes of great Difficultie wherin smal strength seemeth to remain with You in the eyes of the world for recovering Your just power and greatnesse Therefore take the Counsell which David when he was a-dying gave to his sonne Solomon 1. King 2. 2. 3. Bee strong and show thy selfe a man and keep the Charge of the LORD thy GOD to walke in His Wayes and keepe His Commandements that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest and whether-so-ever thou turnest thy selfe After this Exhortation the Minister closed the whole Action with Prayer and the xx PSALM being sung hee dismissed the people with the Blessing Then did the Kinges Majestie descend from the Stage with the Crown upon his head and receaving agayn the Scepter in his hand returned with his whole Trayn in solemn manner to his Palace the Sword being carried before him FINIS
unction even that Spirituall Unction where-with Believers are anointed which you have 1. John 2. 27. The anoynting yee have receaved of him abydeth in you And 2. Cor. 1. 21. Hee that hath anoynted vs is GOD who hath also sealed vs This anoynting is not proper to kinges but Common to Believers Few kinges are so anoynted A King should stryve to bee a good CHRISTIAN and then a good KING The anoynting with GRACE is better then the anoynting with oyle It is of more worth for a king to bee the Anoynted of the LORD with GRACE then to bee the greatest Monarch of the world without it 2. This anoynting may put a king in mynde of the guifts where-with kinges should bee endued for discharge of their Royall Calling For anoynting did signifie the guifts of Office It is sayd of SAUL when hee was anoynted king 1. SAM. 10. 9. GOD gave him another heart And CAP. 11. 6. The Spirit of GOD came vpon him It is meant of a heart for his Calling and a spirit of abilitie for Government It should bee our desyre this day That our king may have a spirit for his Calling as the Spirit of Wisdome Fortitude Iustice and other Princelie Enduements 3. This anoynting may put Subjectes in mynde of the Sacre-dues of the authoritie of a king Hee should bee respected as the LORDS Anoynted There are diverse sorts of persons that are enemies to the authoritie of kinges As 1. Anabaptists who deny there should bee kinges in the NEW TESTAMENT They will have no king nor Civile Magistrate 2. The late Photinians who speake respectfullie of kinges and Magistrates but they take away from them their power and the exercise of it in the administation of justice 3. These who ryse agaynst kinges in open Rebellion as Absalom and Sheba who sayd What have wee to doe with David the sonne of Iesse To your Tentes O Israel 4. They who doe not rebell openlie yet they despyse a king in their heart lyke these sonnes of Beliall 1. SAM. 10. last Who sayd of Saul after hee was anoynted king Shall this man save vs And they despysed him and brought him no Presents All these meet in our presentage 1. Anabaptistes who are agaynst the being of kinges are verie ryfe You may fynd to our great griefe a great number of them in that Armie that hath injustlie invaded the Land who have trampled upon the authoritie of kinges 2. There are also of the second sort who are secretlie Photinians in this poynt They allow of kings in profession but they are agaynst the exercyse of their power in the administration of Iustice 3. A third sort are in open Rebellion even all that generation which are risen up not onlie agaynst the person of a king but agaynst kinglie governement 4. There is a fourth who professe they acknowledge a king but despyse him in their heart saying Shall this man save vs I wish all had DAVIDS tendernesse whose heart did smyte him when hee did but cut off the lap of SAULS Garment That wee may bee farre from cutting off a lap of that just power and greatnesse which GOD hath allowed to the king and wee have bound our selves by COVENANT not to diminish I have gone through the three particulars contayned in the 12. vers. I come to the other two in the 17. vers. which appertayne also to this dayes Worke For our king is not onlie to bee crowned but to renew a COVENANT with GOD and His People and to make a COVENANT with the People Answerable hereto there is a twofolde COVENANT in the wordes One betweene GOD and the king the people GOD being the one partie The king and the people the other Another betweene the king and the people The king being the one partie The people the other The COVENANT with GOD is the fourth particular propounded to bee spoken of The summe of this COVENANT yee may fynd 2. King 23. 3. in Iosiah his renewing the COVENANT To walke after the LORD and keepe His Commandementes and Testimonies with all the heart and to performe the wordes of the COVENANT The renewing of the COVENANT was after a great defection from GOD and the setting up of a false worship The king and people of GOD bound themselves before the LORD to set up the TRUE WORSHIP and to abolish the false SCOTLAND hath a Preference in this before other Nations In tyme of Defection they have renewed a COVENANT with GOD to reforme all And because the king after a great Defection in that familie is to renew the COVENANT I shall mention some particulars from the LEAGVE and COVENANT 1. Wee are bound to maintaine the True Reformed Religion in doctrine Worship Discipline Governement established in this kingdome and to endevour the Reformation of Religion in the other two kingdomes according to the Word of GOD and the example of the best Reformed Kirkes By this Article the king is obliedged not onlie to maintaine Religion as it is established in SCOTLAND but also to endeavour the Reformation of Religion in his other kingdomes The king would consider well when it shall please GOD to restore him to his Governement there that hee is bound to endevour the establishment of the Worke of Reformation there aswell as to maintaine it here 2. According to the second Article The king is bound without respect of persons to extirpate Poperie Praelacie Superstition Heresie Schisme and Prophanenesse and what-so-ever shall bee found contrarie to sound Doctrine and the power of godlynesse And therefore Poperie is not to bee suffered in the Royall Familie nor within his Dominions Praelacie once plucked up by the roote is not to bee permitted to take roote agayne All Haeresie and Errour what-so-ever must bee opposed by him to the uttermost of his power and by the COVENANT the King must bee farre from Toleration of anie false religion within his Dominions 3. As the people are bound to maintaine the kinges person and authoritie in the maintenance of the True Religion and Liberties of the Kingdome So the King is bound with them to maintaine the Rights and Priviledges of the PARLIAMENT and Liberties of the Subjects according to the third Article 4. Wee are bound to discover and to bring unto condigne punishment all such as have been or shall bee Iucendiaries Malignantes or evill instrumentes in hindering the Reformation of Religion divyding the King from the people or one of the kingdomes from another or making aniefaction or parties amongst the people Here-by the King is bound to have an eye upon such and neither allow of them nor comply with them but to concurre according to his power to have them censured and punished as is expressed in the fourth Article I shall summe up all in this That a King entering in COVENANT with GOD should doe as Kinges did of Olde when they entered in COVENANT They and their people wēt on in the work of Reformation as appeareth here vers. 18. And all the people of the