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A70864	Concordia discors, or, The dissonant harmony of sacred publique oathes, protestations, leagues, covenants, ingagements, lately taken by many time-serving saints, officers, without scruple of conscience ... by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P3928; ESTC R22150	38,103	48

and null by his perfidiousness through divine Justice which will never permit any good things to spring out of such enormous evils as perjury and treachery which produced sundry judgments and civil wars never ceasing till Henry the right heir was restored to the Crown by a friendly agreement the only probable speedy way not now to end our present wars oppressions distractions Military Government and restore peace and prosperitie in our Nations After this An. 1191. upon the dejection of the insolent Bishop of Ely from his Vicegerentship under King Richard the first e all the Nobles of England assembling together swore Fealty to Richard King of England and to his heir against all men The Citizens of London swore the like Oath and that if King Richard should die without issue they would receive Earl John his Brother for their King and Lord juraverunt ei Fidelitatem contra omnes homines salva fidelitate Regis Richardi fratris sui as Hoveden relates In Claus. 24 H 3. m. 15. dorso soon after the birth of Edward the 1. son and heir apparent to King Henry the third I find this memorable writ issued to all the Sheriffes of England to summon all persons above 12. years old to swear Fealty to him as Heir to the King and to submit themselves faithfully to him as to their Liege Lord after his death Rex Vic. Eborum salutem Praecipimus tibi quod in fide qua nobis teneris et sicut teipsum et omnia tua diligis venire facias ad loca certa ad dies certos sicut commodius fiery potevit Omnes liberos homines de balliva tua aetatis 12. Annorum et supra et eos omnes coram te jurare facias ita quod haec sit forma juramenti sui scilicet Quod ipsi salvo Homagio et fidelitate nostra qua Nobis tenentur cui in vita nostra nullo mode renunciare volumus Fideles eritis Edwardo filio nostre primogenito ita quod side Nobis humanitus contigerit eidem tanquam hearedi nostro et Domino suo ligio erunt fideliter intendentes et eum pro Domino suo ligio habentes Et talem circa hoc exhibeas diligentiam ut inde merito debeatis commendari Teste meipso apud Westm. 24 die Febr. Ann. r. n. 24. Eodem modo scribitur omnibus Vicecomitibus and it appears by Dors. 12. they were summoned and sworn accordingly f In the Parliament of 5 H. 4. rot Parl. n. 13. 17. The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons were sworn to bear faith and true allegiance to the King to the Prince and to his issue and to every one of his Sonnes severally sucéeding to the Crown of England and that of their own accord The like Oath was taken to the King Queen Prince Edward and the Heirs of the Kings body in the Parliament of 38 H. 6. rot Parl. n. 26. And to g Prince Edward Son and heir apparent to King Edward the 4th and his Heirs in the Parliament of 11 E. 4. entred in the Clause Roll of 11 E. 4. m. 1. dorso Yet in point of Law Conscience the first Oathes of Fealty and Allegiance to each of these Kings his heirs and successors * obliged all that took them as firmly to their heirs and successors as their Homages made by them to these Kings or other Lords which extend equally to their heires and shall not be h reiterated nor renewed to them upon this Account unless in some special cases and binde not only those that took them but their heirs and posteritie likewise although they never tooke these Oaths themselves at least to a religious conscientious observation though not to the actual legal penalties of Perjury as Angelus de Clavasio in his Summa Angelica tit. Juramentum 5. sect 24. 40. and other Canonists distinguish and the forecited Scriptures infallibly demonstrate especially being made for the publick good peace settlement of the Kingdom warranted by the policie presidents of all ages prescribed by our Lawes Parliaments for the safetie securitie settlement as well of our Religion Church Kingdoms Government as of our Kings and their posterities and so not o to be violated through fear menaces hopes of worldly gain or preferment nor dispensed with by any Papal or other human power whatsoever the i breach of Oaths Leagues Covenants being A GRAND VICKEDNESSE and high prophanation of the TRUTH FAITHFULNESSE NAME AND CONSTANCY OF GOD HIMSELF as well as transgression of his Law and Gospel deserving the highest temporal and Ecclesiastical censures in this world as well as eternal condemnation in the world to come Ezech. 17. 16 to 22. Jer. 34. Neh 5. 12. 13. 7. Whether the late illegal Oaths Ingagements to the New Republicans and Protectors enforced on the people against their Consciences without any lawfull Parliamentary Authority which only legally make prescribe impose new Oaths upon the Nation as the marginal k Statutes resolve past all dispute being directly contradictorie to their former lawfull Oaths to our Kings their Heirs and Successors be not absolutely void in conscience yea mere prophanings abuses of Gods sacred Name and if taken out of fear or weaknesse no wayes to be observed no more than Davids Oath resolution to slay Nabal with all his Family 1 Sam. 25. or Herods Oath to Herodias which he had more justly violated than observed in beheading John the Baptist Mat. 14. 6 to 13. or those Jews Vow who vowed they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul Acts 23. 21. c. Which sinful Oaths Vows were no wayes to be observed by shedding innocent blood as both the Fathers Councils Canonists Casuists and Scoolmen resolve as you may read at large in Gratian Caus. 22. quest 4. Summa Angelica Tit. Juramentum sect. 3. 45. Peter Lombard Sent. l. 3. distinct 29. most Schoolmen on his Text whose definitive Doctrine is this Si quis alicui juraverit contra fidem charitatem officium quod observatū pejorem vergat in exitum potius est mutandum quam implendum Qui enim sic jurat vehementer peccat cum autem mutat benèfacit Qui autem non mutat dupliciter peccat Et quia injuste juravit et quia facit quod non debet And l that when a man hath once obliged himself by a legal Oath to God and his Soveraign any latter Oath repugnant to or inconsistent with it is unlawfull Upon which account our m Lawbooks and Laws resolve that when ever any man swears Fealty or doth Homage to his Landlord for the Lands held of him it shall be with this special exception saving the Faith which I owe to our Lord the King who is the Soveraign Lord of all his Subjects principally sworn unto and to be obeyed in the first place before all or any others Hereupon n Walter Bishop of Exeter Anno 6 E. 1. for omitting

Protector over their Infant Common-wealth much against their wills the Mock-Parliament under him whiles above 150 Members duly elected most confided in by the Country were forcibly secluded by their Additional Petition and Addresse the 26th of June 1647. imposed this new Oath on all Counsellors of State and Members of Parliament I A. B. do in the presence of God Almighty promise and swear That to the uttermost of my Power I will uphold and maintain the true reformed Protestant Religion in the purity thereof as it is contained in the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament and encourage the Profession and Professors of the same And that I will be true and faithfull to his Highnesse the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereunto belonging as chief Magistrate thereof And shall not contrive design or attempt any thing against the Person or lawfull Authority of the Lord Protector shall keep secret all matters that shall be treated of in Counsel and put under secrecy and not reveal them but by Command or consent of his Highnesse the Parliament or the Counsel and shall in all things faithfully perform the trust committed to me as a Counsellour according to the best of my understanding in order to the good Government peace and wellfare of these Natiions And shall endeavour as much as in me lyes as a Member of Parliament the preservation of the Rights and Liberties of the People These Oaths were sworn by many of those who had taken the premised Oaths Protestation Solemn League and Covenant and the Engagement too both to their Protector Oliver and his Son Richard with whom the Army-Officers Souldiers and sundry others in the name of most Counties and Corporations of England Scotland and Ireland in their special Addresses to Richard faithfully promised to live and die yet lo within few Months after notwithstanding these Oaths and Addresses by a miraculous Divine providence admirable in all considerate mens eyes they not only all deserted but degraded him from his Protectorship without one stroke or drop of blood spilt or Sword drawn in his quarrel after so much Christian bloud shed so many Millions of Treasure spent and many years travel care by his Father Oliver to establish his Posterity in this new-erected Supremacy Protectorship and that by his own Army-Officers and nearest most endeared Relations even in a moment beyond all probability or possibility in humane apprehension To accomplish this strange unexpected work the Army-Officers called in the old Vnparliamentary Iuncto sitting since the year 1648. till April 20. 1653. whom they formerly dissolved and unparliamented secluding all the rest of the old Parliament sitting till December 6. 1648. by force and armed guards with the whole House of Lords re-creating them alone for a Parliament who usurping to themselves the name and power of a Parliament against both Law Equity Reason dismounted his Son Richard from his Protectorship unlorded degraded his New other House of Mushrom Lords and new dubbed Knights cashiered some of the Army-Colonells and other Officers who helped to make them a Parliament him a Protector and may gratifie the rest in this kinde Commissioned some whom Oliver cashiered turned most of his Council Commissioners Judges Creatures out of their Offices and pulled down most of that he set up with force and blood Who now thinking themselves secure and forgetting all their former with these late sodain Revolutions Changes as the just rewards of perfidious breaches of Oaths Protestations Covenants to their lawfull Soveraigns they hav now afresh to make us a Freestate not only doubled our former Taxes in effect and more than trebled them by a most arbitrary new Militia on many but also by a New Bill appointed an Oath to be taken by their Iudges Iustices of the Peace and other Officers in form following You shall swear That you shall be true faithfull and constant to this Commonwealth without a single Person Kingship or House of Lords Which ‖ illegal Oath so diametrically contrary to the former it swallowed by their unarmed Judges Justices and other civil Officers out of fear will in time be imposed on the Army Officers Soldiers and all others as their former Ingagement was with as severe penalties Having presented you with these contradictory repugnant irreconcileable Oathes Protestations Covenants and Engagements I shall propose some few cases of conscience upon them in this age when Conscience is so much pretended and Liberty of Conscience so much pressed that tendernes of Conscience and Conscience it self are hardly to be found in the greatest pretenders to them 1. Whether all lawfull sacred Oaths Vowes Covenants Protestations doe not i firmly immutably inviolably bind the souls consciences of all that take them to an Absolute indispensible sincere faithful performance and strict observation of them to the uttermost of their power in all estates and conditions as is evident by Numb. 30. 2. to 14. Josh 9. 19 20. Gal. 3. 15. Deut. 23. 22 23. Judg. 11. 30. 39. Job 22. 27 Ps. 15. 4. Ps. 22. 25 Ps. 61. 8. Ps. 66. 13. Ps. 116 14 18. Ps. 132. 2 3 c. Eccles. 5. 4. Jer. 44. 25. Jonah 2 9. Isay 19. 21. Nah. 1. 15. Gen. 21. 23 24 31. c. 24. 3. to 10. 37. to 47. c 26. 3 31. c. 47. 31. c. 50. 5 6. Levit. 19. 12. Josh. 2. 12. 17. 20. Judg. 15. 12 13. Deut. 8. 12. Josh. 21. 43 44. 1 Kings 1. 13. 17. 29 30. 2 Chron. 36. 13. Ezra 10. 5. Neh. 13. 25. Jer. 4. 2. c 11. 5. Mat. 5. 33. 1 Kings 15. 3 4 5. 2 Chron. 21. 5 6 7. compared with Hebr 6. 16 17 18. An Oath for confirmation is to men an end of all strife wherfore God willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his Counsel confirmed it with an Oath that by two Immutable things his Oath and Covenant in which it is impossible for God to lie we might have strong consolation Ps. 89. 3. 34. I have made a Covenant with my chosen I have sworn unto David my Servant My Covenant will I not break nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lipps Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David Ps. 132. 11. The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David he will not turn from it Jer. 33. 20. 21. Thus saith the Lord If you can break my Covenant of the day and my Covenant of the night and that there should not be day and night in their season Then may also my Covenant be broken with David my Servant that he should not have a Son to reign upon his throne If Gods Oaths and Covenants to mortal sinful men be thus true constants sincere firme unalterable immutable then by like reason should mens Oaths and Covenants to God and their lawfull Kings be such as Psal. 15. 4. Eccles. 8. 2. Gal. 3. 15. Levit. 30. 2. to 14. and the

1. 5. c. 9. 8 32. Ps. 25. 13. Isay 34. 5. c. 44. 3. c. 59. 21. c. 61. 8 9. c. 62. 22. Mal. 2. 4 to 15. c. 4. 6. Acts 2. 39. c. 3. 25. c. 7. 5 45. c. 13. 23. Rom. 4. 13 16. c. 9. 7 8. c. 11. 1 2 27. Gal. 3. 16. to the end Heb. 8. 6 to 11. c. 11. 18. c. 13. 20. Lu. 1. 72 73. Rev. 12. 17. Levit. 26. 9 15 25 42 44. 2 Kings 17. 15 to 41. Psal. 44. 17 18. Ps. 78. 10. 38. Ps. 89. 3. 4 5 34 35. Ps. 103. 17. 18. Ps. 105. 8 10. Ps. 111. 5 9. Isay 24. 5. c 42. 6. c. 49. 8. c. 54. 3. Jer. 11. 2 to 12. c. 22. 9. c. 31. 31. 32 33. c. 29. 10. to 20. c. 33. 20. 21. c. 50. 5. Ezech. 16. 60. 62. c. 37. 28 29. c. 44. 4. Hos. 8. 1. Heb. 6. 16. 17. Therefore mens Oaths Covenants to Kings and their Posterity must likewise bind in succession and perpetuity 2ly Because Gods Oath and Covenant made to David and to his House Royal Seed and Posterity touching their succession in the Royal Throne of Iudah was hereditary successive extending to all his Issue and Posterity and though many of them were wicked rebellious yet this did not cause or provoke God to dethrone or disinherit them or infringe his Oath and Covenant to David 2 Sam. 3. 12. to the end c. 22. 51. 1 Kings 2. 33. Psal. 89. 2 3 33 to 38. Ps. 132. 11 12 13. Ps. 18. 50. Jer. 33. 17 19 20 21. 1 Chron. 28. 4 to 10. Jer. 17. 24 24 25 26. 1 Kings 11. 12. 13 36 39. 2 Kings 8. 9. 2 Chron. 21. 5 6 7. 2 Chron. 23. 3 c. Jer. 23. 4 5. Zezh 9. 9. John 13. 13 15. Lu. 1. 32 33. Therefore much more where Oaths Covenants are made by Subjects to their Hereditary Kings and their Posterity they must remain inviolable and not be abrogated by their transgressions 3ly Because the Oath which Joseph took of his Brethren the children of Israel to carry up his Bones out of Aegypt into Canaan when God should bring them out of Aegypt Gen. 50. 24 25. though not made precisely for them and their Posterity was reputed by Moses and them to be obligatorie to their seed as if made by them even in point of Conscience as is evident by Exod. 13. 19. And Moses took the Bones of Ioseph with him though driven out of Egypt by Pharoah for he had straitly sworn to the Children of Israel saying God will surely visit you and you shall carry up my bones hence with you Which bones of his they by vertue of this Oath notwithstanding Pharoahs pursuit after them carryed along with them through the red Sea and through the wildernesse forty years and through the Land of Canaan till they had quite conquered it notwithstanding all their wars Iosh. 24. 32. near 500 years after this Oath first made If then Moses Ioshua and all the Israelites held themselves thus conscienciously obliged by the Oath of their deceased Ancestors above four hundred years before to carry up Iosephs dead bones out of Aegypt notwithstanding all Objections of hast and danger from Pharoah and his Host their forty years wandring in the wildernesse their wars in Canaan and meanesse of the matter in relation to their publick safety no wayes concerned in it Then much more must our Ancestors and our own particular reiterated Oaths in precise terms to our Kings their Heirs and Successors which so much concern our publick Government Peace Settlement Safety Prosperity engage our whole Kingdom and three Nations to a consciencious observation of them to the uttermost of their power 4ly Because Davids Oath to Saul and Jonathan extended to their seed 1 Sam. 24. 21 22. Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my Fathers House And David swore unto Saul 1 Sam. 20. 14 to 18 42. And Jonathan said to David thou shalt not only while I yet live shew me the kindnesse of the Lord that I die not but also thou shalt not cut off thy kindnesse from my House for ever no not when the Lord hath cut off the Enemies of David every one from the face of the Earth So Jonathan made a Covenant WITH THE HOUSE OF DAVID And Jonathan caused David to swear again because he loved him And Ionathan said to David go in peace for as much as We have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord saying the Lord be beeween thee and me and between thy Seed and my Seed for ever How conscienciously David observed these Oaths after the deaths of Saul and Ionathan is apparent not only by his love favor and affection to Mephibosheth for Jonathans sake whom he restored to all that was Saule made him eat continually at his Table 2 Sam. 9. 1. c. and by his slaying of Baanah and Rechab for murdering Ishbosheth Sauls son his Competitor when they brought his head unto him expecting a great reward 2 Sam. 4. But more especially by his sparing Mephibosheth the Son of Jonathan the son of Saul because of the Lords Oath that was between them between David and Jonathan extending to their seed and posteritie when the Gibeonites demanded 7. of the sons of Saul to be delivered up to them 2 Sam. 21. 5 6 7. 5. Because Esther 9. 27 28 31. The * Iews ordained and took upon them and upon their séed and upon all such as joyned themselves unto them so as it should not fail that they would keep these two dayes of Purim according to their writing and according to their appointed time every year as those in the Parliament of 3 Jac. c. 1. and their Posteritie have observed the 5 of November annually ever since and that those dayes should be remembred and kept throughout every Generation every Family every Province and every City and that those dayes of Purim should not fail from among the Iews nor the memorial of them perish from their séed which they decreed for themselves and for their seed If the whole Nation of the Jewes by an Ordinance and Decree might thus binde their seed posterity to observe the daies of Purim for ever With like reason they might by an Oath Covenant oblige themselves and their posterities for ever to their hereditarie Kings their heirs and posterities for ever And so may we and all other Nations by the like Acts Decrees and the forecited Oathes as is clearly resolved declared enacted by the Statutes of 25 H. 8. c. 22. 26 H. 8. c. ● 28 H. 8. c. 3. 35 H. 8. c. 1. 1 Eliz. c. 1. 3. 5 Eliz. c. 1. 1 Jac. c. 1. 3 Jac. c 4. 7 Jac. c. 6. 6ly Because the president of the Rechabites who upon the command of their Father Ionadab the son of Rechab That neither they nor their Sons for ever should

drinke Wine nor build house nor sow seed nor plant nor have any vineyard but dwell in tents all their dayes held themselves bound in duty conscience to obey it which God himself commends records rewards for others imitation Jer. 35. 1. to 15. who might in like sort oblige them by his Oath and Covenant Is a convincing gument that as the * Warranties Covenants Bends Contracts Feofments Grants Reservations of Rents Services Tenures in see by the Laws of England and other Nations firmly oblige mens Heirs Posterity Assignees Executors Administrators on both sides in succession and perpetuity So likewise their Oaths Covenants Protestations to their here litarie Kings their Heirs and Successors oblige them equally to them in Perpetuity and succession 7ly Because it is most evident by Gen. 3. 14 15. c. 4 5. Exodus 17. 16. c. 20. 5. c. 43. 7. 1 Kings 2. 33. 2 Kings 5. 27. Jer. 22 30. c. 36. 31. That Parents by their iniquities and transgressions may draw down and entayl the curses the judgements of God on them and their Posterityes after them to their prejudice Therefore they may much more oblige them by their Oaths Covenants to Obedience Loyalty Subjection to their hereditary Kings and their Heirs for their own particular and the m Publick good safety as well as Freehold and Copyhold Tenents in Honors Manors may oblige themselves their Heirs and Successors for ever by Homage Fealty Tenures Contracts to their Landlords their Heirs and Assignees for ever by the Common Statute-laws of our own and other Realms though they be no Soveraign Lords and Kings over them 8ly Because the Saints and Churches of God in all Ages have held themselves and their posterity bound in Duty and Conscience to pray to God for the life safety prosperity of their Kings and their Sons and Royal Posterity in all hereditary Kingdoms as is apparent by Ezra 6. 10 11. Psal. 72 1 2 15. 1 Sam. 11. 14. 2 Sam. 16. 16. 1 Kings 1. 25. 34 39. 2 Kings 11. 12. 2 Chron. 23. 11. Psal. 149. 2. Ezech. 9. 9. Dan. 2. 4. c. 3. 9. c. 6. 6. 21. Mat. 21. 5. 9. John 12. 13 15. 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. by all the antient modern Liturgyes Collects Letanyes Canons of the Churches of England Scotland Ireland France Spain and other hereditary Kingdoms The Testimony of sundry Fathers Councils Historians and our own Clause Rolls in the Tower n elsewhere quoted Therefore they may lawfullie oblige themselves and their Posterity by Solemn Oaths Covenants Protestations to obey protect and defend their and their posterities Royal Persons Crowns and Royalties 9ly To put this out of further question I shall only prest one Scripture president and testimonie more wherewith I shall conclude this point and that is the Historie of the Gibeonites recorded Josh. 9. 10. and 2 Sam. 21. 1. to 13. The Gibeonites a remnant of the Amorites with whom the Israelites by Gods express command were to make no peace nor covenant nor shew any mercy to but smite with the edge of the sword and utterly destroy Deut. 7. 1 2 3. c. 20. 16 17 18. circumventing Joshua and the elders of Israel by a stratagem of old bottles shooes bread clothes and a lying information that they came from a farr country to make peace and a league with them by reason of the glorious victories God had given and the miracles he had wrought for them thereupon without asking any advice of God or the Congregation or examining the truth of their information Joshua and the Elders of the Congregation entred into a league with them to let them live and sware unto them in the name of the Lord Within three dayes after they heard they were their neighbours and dwelt amongst them and they came unto their Cities the third day * But the children of Israel smote them not Because the Princes of the Congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel Hereupon all the Congregation murmured against the Princes But all the Princes said unto the Congregation We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel therefore we may not touch them This we will do unto them we will let them live lest wrath be upon us because of the Oath that we sware unto them And the Princes said unto them let them live as the Princes had promised them but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water to all the congregation And Joshua called for them and spake unto them saying Wherefore have ye beguiled us saying We are very far from you when you dwell among us Now therefore ye are cursed and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen and bewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God And they answered Joshua and said because it was certainly told thy servants how the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the Land and to destroy all the Inhabitants of the Land before you therefore we were fore afraid of our lives because of you and have done this thing And now behold we are in thine hand as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us do And so did he unto them and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel that they slew them not And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the Altar of the Lord even to this day in the place which he should chuse After this Oath and League the Princes and Congregation were so farr from slaying or suffering them to be slain by their enemies contrarie hereunto that when as 5. Kings soon after came up with all ●h●ir hosts and encamped against Gibeah to destroy is because they had made peace with Israel the Giheonite sending this message to Joshus the camp at Gilgal slack not thy hand from thy servants to come up to us quickly save us for all the Kings of the Amorites that dwell in the Mountains are gathered against us thereupon Ioshua and all the men of Warr with him went up from Gilgal all night and came upon their Enemies sodenly and smote destroyed them with a great slaughter delivering them from that danger About 395 years after this Solem Oath League King Saul out of his zeal to the children of Israel and Iudah sought to destroy all and slew some of those Gibeonites posterity contrary to this Oath and League For which 35 * years after its violation and 430 years after its first making God sent a famine in the Land for three years year after year upon this David inquiring of the Lord what was the true cause thereof The Lord answered him It was for Saul and for his bloudy house because they slew the Gibeonites who were not of the Israelites but of the remnant of the Amorites and the children of Israel had sworn unto them whereupon David called the Gibeonites and said unto

them What shall I doe for you and Wherewith shall I make the Attonement that ye may blesse the Inheritance of the Lord And they said unto the King The man that consumed us and devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel let seven of his sons be delivered unto us and we will hang them up in Gibeah of Saul which the Lord did chuse which being accordingly done after that God was intreated for the Land and removed the famine 2 Sam. 1. 1. to 15. Here we have an Oath and Covenant binding the Israelites their Governours Heirs and posterity in perpetuitie to the Gibeonites and their posteritie which I shall parallel with our forementioned Oaths Protestation Covenant to our hereditarie Kings their heirs and successors to prove them more obliging to us and our posterities than this Oath League of the Israelites to the Gibeonites in regard of these observable circumstances particulars not hitherto insisted on by any which I beseech God in mercie to set home effectually upon all our hearts spirits consciences both for our information reformation settlement and avoiding Gods avenging justice on us and our posterities for our transcendent perjuries breach of Oathes and Covenants to our Soveraigns 1. This Oath and Covenant with the Gibeonites Embassadors was procured by meer fraud circumvention misinformation and apparent falshood arising meerly from those to whom it was made and sworn yet it obliged the Israelites and their posteritie to the Gibeonites and their progenie in perpetuitie But the forementioned Oathes together with the Protestation and Solemn League and Covenant were made without any fraud circumvention misinformation or false suggestion upon grounds of loyaltie dutie justice prudence christianitie Religion and State-policie voluntarily propounded by the makers takers of them and ratified in full Parliaments Therefore they must needs be farre more valid obligatory to the whole English Nation and their posterities than this Oath Covenant to the Gibeonites 2. This League and Oath was made very sodenly rashly unadvisedly without any advice with God and the whole Congregation or examining debating the truth of the Gibeonites suggestion yet it bound them when once made But our Oathes Protestation League Covenant were all made enacted enjoyned upon long and serious debate mature deliberation in several successive Parliaments Therefore ours must be much more obliging than theirs 3ly This League Oath was made only by the Princes of Israel without the Congregations privitie assent or advice who were discontented with and murmured against them for it yet it obliged both the Princes people and their posterities But our Oathes Protestation League and Covenant were made not only by all our Princes Nobles Peers but likewise by the whole House of Commons in full Parliaments and assented to by the whole English Nation both in and out of Parliament the * Commons being the original movers promoters contrivers of all or most of them Therefore they must be much more obligatorie to us and our po●eri●ies than theirs 4ly Their League Oath was never ratified by any publique Law or decree of the whole Congregation and people of Israel in any publike Convention but only by Ioshua and the Princes alone yet they bound the whole Nation Ours have been approved ratified established perpetuated by sundry successive Acts Ordinances Votes of Parliament from time to time continuing still in their full legal force Therefore much more valid and binding to us and our posterities than theirs 5ly That Oath League was taken sworn only by the Princes themselves not by the Congregation and people of Israel yet they were all obliged by them Our Oaths Protestation League Covenant have been sworn taken not only by all our Princes Nobles Officers of State Iustices but likewise by all or most of the Commons people of the Land from time to time both in and out of Parliament Therefore much more obliging to us and ours than theirs 6ly This Oath League of theirs to the Gibeonites was never taken and entred into for ought appears but once and that sodeinly without any subsequent renovation or ratification But our Oathes Protestation League Covenant have been swore taken again and again by all Members of Parliament Officers of State Iustices Graduates Lawyers Ministers most Souldiers and others upon sundry emergent occasions both in and out of Parliament Therefore much more obligatory to us and our posterities then theirs 7ly This Oath League for ought wee read was not made explicitly in precise terms with the Gibeonites their heirs and posteritie for ever but only indefinitely with the Gibeonites then in being whose lives they spared as the words import yet because they were a People State Citie Body politick having a permanent succession it virtually and intentionally in their own and Gods account too extended not only to the Gibeonites then living but to their succeeding issues in Sauls time near 400 years after and all succeeding Generations as q perpetual National Leagues use to do But our Oaths League Covenant in direct terms extend not only to our Kings to whom they were first made and sworn but likewise to their heirs successors and Royal Posterity for ever see 1 Jac. c. 1. 3. Jac. c. 4. 7 Jac. c. 6. 1 Eliz. c. 1. 3. Therefore they must needs be more binding to us our Heirs and Posterities in present and succeeding Generations than their to the Gibeonites 8ly Their League Oath was only with foreign Pagans Strangers who became their mere slaves and bondmen in perpetuitie and had not the least power jurisdiction over them yet it bound them to strict observation Ours are made sworn to our own Christian natural Kings Princes Soveraigns of our own flesh bloud Nation to whom we are natural borne Subjects and owe all dutifull allegiance by the Laws of God Nature Nations Therefore much more obliging to and most religiously to be kept by us and our posterities after us than theirs 9ly Which is most considerable this their Oath League was made with such an idolatrous remnant of the Ammonites as God himself by express precepts had commanded the Israelites to make no League nor Covenant with upon any terms but utterly to destroy with the edge of the sword without mercie without saving any of them alive Exod. 23. 32. c. 24. 12. 13. Deutr. 7. 1 2 3 c. c. 20. 16 17 18. Psal. 106. 34. 35. yet notwithstanding having once entred into a League with and sworn to them in the name of the Lord that they should live though by their own fraud circumvention and misinformation God was so jealous of his own name honour glory so unwilling that his own people should perjuriously treacherously perfidiously break their Oathe Covenant sworn in his name r being the highest the most sacred inviolable Obligations securities that can be betweene God and men man and man Nation and Nation that he would rather have his positive judicial Law which ſ some conceive to