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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75496	An apologeticall declaration of the conscientious Presbyterians of the province of London, and of many thousands of other faithfull, and Covenant-keeping citizens, and inhabitants within the said city and suburbs thereof. Wherein their firmnesse and faithfulnesse to their first principles, and to their Solemn League and Covenant is conscientiously declared; and the Covenant-breaking and apostacie of others is disclaimed and abhorred before God and the whole world. Januarie, the 24th, 1649.		1649 (1649)	Wing A3539B; Thomason E539_9; ESTC R205700	6,840	11

AN APOLOGETICALL DECLARATION Of the Conscientious Presbyterians of the Province of LONDON and of many thousands of other faithfull and Covenant-keeping Citizens and Inhabitants within the said City and Suburbs thereof Wherein their firmnesse and faithfulnesse to their first Principles and to their Solemn League and Covenant is Conscientiously declared And the Covenant-breaking and Apostacie of Others is disclaimed and abhorred before GOD and the whole World Januarie the 24th 1649. Ezekiel 17 15 18 19. Shall they prosper shall they escape that do such things or shall they break the Covenant and be delivered Seeing they have despised the Oath by breaking the Covenant when as lo they had given their hand and have done all these things Therefore thus saith the Lord God As I live surely mine Oath which they have despised and my Covenant which they have broken even it will I recompense upon their own heads Job 22 30. The innocent shall deliver the Iland and it shall be preserved by the pureness of thy hands LONDON Printed in the Yeer 1649. To the READER COurteous Reader It is prudentially considered and concluded on by the Subscribers hereof that seeing their reverend Ministers Representation with subscription of their Names hath not taken that happie effect which was desired nor stayed the hands of those to whom it was directed therefore the publishing of their names that have subscribed to this Apologeticall-Declaration will in like manner do but little good in that respect And therefore although they are upon record to the honour of the Gospel they are not now published in regard of the present over-awing Power of the Sword but may and shall in due time appear in publick with more ample and we hope most satisfactory Demonstration of the just Reasons of this their present concealment Vale. WEE the Subscribers of this our Apologeticall Declaration who desire to approve our selves sincere Professors of the true Reformed Protestant Religion Presbyterian Citizens and Inhabitants of the honorable and lately famous and renowned City of London who have cordially adhered unto the Parliament in its first and second War against the Kings Forces for the defence of the true Protestant Religion His Majesties Person Crown and Dignity the Rights and Priviledges of Both Houses of Parliament and in them the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom Calling to minde our solemn engagements not onely by our Protestation May 5th 1641 but especially our Solemn League and Covenant which was so religiously and unanimously sworn unto with our hands lifted up to the high and holy God of Heaven that we would really sincerely and constantly through the grace of God in our severall Callings and with our lives and estates endevour the preservation of them all Artic 1 2 3 c. And being in our Consciences perswaded and assured of our indispensible obligation so to do because most deeply engaged by our said Covenant not to suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to be divided or withdrawn from that Cause which so much concerneth the glory of God the good of the Kingdom and honour of the King But all the dayes of our lives zealously and constantly to continue therein against all opposition Art 6. And whereas by wofull experience we are made very sensible of the dangerous effects of the violation of all our Covenant-concernments and of the disappointment of our hopes of reaping the expected fruits of this defensive war for which we the Subscribers have many of us adventured our lives and most of us our estates in a measure beyond our abilities besides the Common Taxes that have been imposed upon us And though we cannot but with bleeding and trembling hearts complain that our Cause doth in these sad and perillous times in which we live meet with such violent opposition such mighty lets and impediments as we are not able to suppresse and overcome yet considering with our selves that what we cannot suppresse or overcome we are obliged to reveal and make known Artic 6. Being also moved with fear lest in this time of imminent danger to all that is dear unto us our silence should be taken for consent and so contract upon our selves the guilt of betraying Religion King Parliament the Laws and Liberties of this Nation having also no other way left us to set our Consciences at liberty from the aforesaid guilt we might contract by our sinfull silence in this juncture of time We do therefore with all sincerity fidelity zeal and humility before the most just and righteous Lord of heaven and earth make known unto all the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland to all the Reformed-Churches and unto the whole Christian World not onely the dis-satisfaction of our Spirits at the late and present transactions of those who have forcibly assumed the Supreme-power into their own hands But also do make this our following most solemn and serious Apologeticall Declaration for our clearing and justification from allowing or assenting to the illegall actings of these present times And that we may also publish unto the world the grounds of these our most just exceptions and necessitated complaints herein we declare That not onely in generall our righteous Cause before mentioned is perverted deserted apostatized and fallen-from by those who most injuriously and falsly reproach us with Apostacie for not associating with them and bearing them companie in their unwarrantable wayes But also in particular that it is perverted and abused in every part branch therof As first in point of our Religion which we are most deeply engaged by Covenant to preserve and reform in power and purity Whereas in our own experience confirmed by the Parliaments first Remonstrance Exact Collect pag. 4. Religion in its purity was greatly endangered in the Prelates times in the Doctrinall-part by the errors of Popery and Arminianisme and in worship with superstitious Innovations And in our sad apprehension the Doctrine of the Gospel is now adayes not onely more endangered through the increase of Popery and Arminianisme but of most blasphemous Antiscrip●unisme Antitrinitarianisme Antinomianisme Socinianisme and many other such like heterodox opinions and damnable doctrines But also in point of worship which instead of fear of corrupting is now in great danger of absolute Nulling by accursed opinions both against the very being of Ordinances the set-times and dayes appointed by God for their administration and even of the Officers and Ministers appointed by Jesus Christ for their dispensation Which doth the more sadly affect our hearts and enforce this just Declaration and Complaint because of that so eagerly endeavoured unwarrantable Tolerating of them all except in that subtil exception of theirs of the open practise of Popery and Prelacie as if it were That Liberty of Conscience which we have all this while engaged for But rather against which We do not onely protest but contrariwise professe and declare that it was onely a Liberty of Conscience from sin and error which we