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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26065	Evangelium armatum, A specimen, or short collection of several doctrines and positions destructive to our government, both civil and ecclesiastical preached and vented by the known leaders and abetters of the pretended reformation such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall, and others, &c.	Assheton, William, 1641-1711.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing A4033; ESTC R4907	49,298	71

and Covenant the Solemn League and Covenant And this I tell you all I had rather die a Covenant-keeper th●…n live a Covenant-breaker Pag. 162. Thus I die with this perswasion that the Presbyterial Government makes most for purity and unity throughout the Churches of the Saints Mr. Marshal in a Sermon before the House of Peers Octob. 28. 1646. On that Text Psal. 8. 2. Out of the mouth of Babes hast thou ordained strength That thou mightest still the enemy c. HE propounds this Quaere Wherein lyes the Power which proceedeth out of the mouth of these Babes His answer is There are sive things which all are the fruit of the mouth by them the●…e Babes have overcome the enemy and the avenger 1. Preaching 2. Confessing or Professing The Name Truth and cause of God and his Christ. 3. Praising Singing out Praise c. 4. Praying and 5. Covenanting Then he brings in an Objection If these be all the weapons and strength whereby the Saints do overcome why do you use any other means to overcome your enemies Why rest you not contented with this either these are not all or you are not Christians nor true to your Principles Time was when Preces and Lachrymae Prayers and Tears were all the weapons which the Church did use but now when you have spoke all these things of the power of Preaching and Praying and Consessing and Covenanting you are glad to betake your selves to Arms to see what they will do to help those out whence it 's apparent you dare not rest in these as sufficient helps To this Mr. Marshal answers thus we acknowledge that as we are Christians in that capacity for as they distinguish'd the King into a double Capacity so they did themselves too into a natural and a Christian capacity and in that Capacity saith He we use no other weapons than these we have told you of these onely are proper and peculiar to us ●…s we are Christians but the weapons which we enjoy as we are Christians do not deprive us of those we enjoy in the capacity as Men. And we challenge in this no more than we may lawfully use if we were Papists or Turks if we were Pagans Jews or Indians we challenge not this to belong to Christianity as peculiar to it we have learn'd that by the Law of Nature and Nations men may defend themselves against unjust violence if the Turks should invade a Countrey of Christians they will tell him that as they are Christians Their Praying and Professing and Singing Covenanting These Spiritual weapons out of their mouth will quell them but as they are men they have a liberty to defend themselves against him vim vi repellere Or if a Christian man were travelling upon the high way and a Thief should demand of him how as a Christian he could defend himself from his Enemies He would tell him by Faith by Prayer by the word of God by weapons out of his mouth but if the Thief assault him and take his life or his purse ●…s he is a man he will use his sword and Christianity will sanc●…ifie this use of his sword to him c. Thus Mr. Marshal ubi supra Pag. 27 28. And to secure his Party from fear of future vengeance or damnanation threatned to the Resisters of Soveraign Authority Rom. 13. 2. He interprets that Text not of the damnation of hell but of the Sentence of the Soveraign Power and that they might not b●… frighted with the fear of that Temporal Judg●…ment neither He promiseth them success and victory in the Name of Almighty God as abovesaid Out of Mr. Calamyes Apology against Mr. Burton 1646. FOr my own particular I crave leav●… to declare to all that shall read these lines what I have done to manifest my repentance and let Master Burton then judge whether it be a repentance to be repented of or no. First I went to Bury and there made in a Sermon a recantation and retraction of what I had done in the hearing of thousands And this I did before the times turned against Episcopacy not out of discontent nor because I was disappointed of my expected preferment at Court Secondly After my coming to London at the beginning of this Parlament I was one of those that did joyn in making Smectymnuus which was the first deadly blow to Episcopacy in England of late years Thirdly My house was a receptacle for godly Ministers in the worst of times here was the Remo●…strance framed against the Prelates here were all meetings I was the first that openly before a Committee of Parlament did defend that our Bishops were not onely not an Order distinct from Presbyters but that in Scripture a Bishop and Presbyter were all one I blush to speak of these things but the judicious Reader will consider how I am provoked to it and will pardon me As for the Service-Book let M. Burton know that at a meeting at my house it was resolved by above a hundred Ministers after a long debate upon divers weighty considerations that all that could in their judgements submit to the reading of some part of it should be intreated for a while to continue so to do To this our dissenting Brethren then present did agree and one of them made a speech to manifest his concordance This is enough to give any man satisfaction for the late laying of it down Out of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. A People they are speaking of the Scots that began to rise for their Liberties when the generality of this people here were ready basely to bow down th●…ir backs and put their necks under the yoke and had it not been that they had been willing to have endured the brunt we had all been slaves it is like at this day Their Liberties are setled why they though on the other side of Jordan they are not therein satisfied to sit still but are willing to come themselves and come into the brunt and hazard themselves for the se●…ling of their brethren in the inheritance of the Lord likew●…se What warrant have we to take up Arms to maintain Religion that is not at present to be discussed but onely this to satisfie and stop all their mouths with one word Thus far none can deny it but it is lawful to take up arms to maintain that Civil right we have to our Religion and this we do For we have not onely a right to our Religion by the Law of God but we have a Civil right to this our Religion that other Christians have not had If it shall be said I but a great deal is done but to little purpose all this while O my brethren say not so it is an unthankful voyce this for much hath been done there hath been a check given to the adversary the stream of tyranny and slavery it hath been stopped your lives have all this