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A52596 An exhortation to the taking of the Solemne league and covenant for reformation and defence of religion, the hononr [sic] and happinesse of the king, and the peace and safety of the three kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672. 1644 (1644) Wing N1493; ESTC R181127 15,137 40

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AN EXHORTATION TO the taking of the 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 IF the power of Religion or solid Reason if Loyalty to the King and piety to their Native Country or love to themselves and naturall affection to their posterity if the Example of men touched with a deep sense of all these or extraordinary successe from God thereupon can awaken an embroyled bleeding remnant to imbrace the soveraigne and onely meanes of their recovery there can be no doubt but this Solemne League and Covenant will find wheresoever it shall bee tendered a people ready to entertaine it with all cheerefulnesse and duty And were it not commended to the Kingdom by the concurrent encouragement of the Honourable Houses of Parliament the Assembly of Divines the renowned City of London multitudes of other persons of eminent rank and quality in this Nation and the whole Body of Scotland who have all willingly sworn and subscribed it with rejoycing at the Oath so graciously seconded from Heaven already by blasting the Counsels and breaking the power of the Enemy more than ever yet it goeth forth in its own strength with such convincing evidence of equity Truth and Righteousnesse as may raise in all not wilfully ignorant or miserably seduced inflamed affections to joyne with their Brethren in this happy Bond for putting an end to the present miseries and for saving both of King and Kingdom from utter ruine now so strongly and openly laboured by the Popish faction and such as have been bewitched and besotted by that viperous and bloudy generation For what is there almost in this Covenant which was not for substance either expressed or manifestly included in that solemne Protestation of May 5. 1641. wherein the whole Kingdome stands ingaged untill this day The sinfull neglect whereof doth as we may justly feare open one floodgate the more to let in all these calamities upon the Kingdome and cast upon it a necessity of renewing Covenant and of entring into this If it be said the extirpation of Prelacy to wit the whole Hierarchicall Government standing as yet by the knowne Lawes of the Kingdome is new and unwarrantable This will appear to all impartiall understandings though new to be not onely warrantable but necessary if they consider to omit what some say that this Government was never formally established by any Lawes of this Kingdome at all that the very life and soule thereof is already taken from it by an Act passed this present Parliament so as like Jezabels Carcasse of which no more was left but the skull the feete and the palmes of her hands nothing of jurisdiction remaines but what is precarious in them and voluntary in those who submit unto them that their whole Government is at best but a humane constitution and such as is found and adjudged by both Houses of Parliament in which the judgement of the whole Kingdom is involved and Declared not onely very prejudiciall to the Civill State but a great hinderance also to the perfect Reformation of Religion Yea who knoweth it not to bee too much an enemy there unto and destructive to the power of godlinesse and pure administration of the Ordinances of Christ which moved the well-affected almost throughout this Kingdom long since to Petition this Parliament as hath been desired before even in the Reigne of Queen Elizabeth and of King James for a totall abolition of the same Nor is any man hereby bound to offer any violence to their persons but only in his place and calling to indevour their extirpation in a lawful way And as for those Clergy-men who pretend that they above all others cannot Covenant to extirpate that Government because they have as they say taken a solemne Oath to obey the Bishops in licitis et honestis they can tell if they please that they that have sworn obedience to the Laws of the Land are not thereby prohibited from indevouring by all lawfull meanes the abolition of those Lawes when they prove inconvenient or mischievous And if yet there should any Oath be found into which any Ministers or others have entred not warranted by the Laws of God and the Land in this case they must teach themselves and others that such Oathes call for repentance not pertinacy in them If it be pleaded that this Covenant crosseth the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance there can be nothing farther from truth for this Covenant binds all and more strongly engageth them to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdomes That scruple that this is done without the Kings consent will soone be removed if it be remembred that the Protestation of the fifth of May before mentioned was in the same manner voted and executed by both Houses and after by order of one House alone sent abroad to all the Kingdome his Majesty not excepting against it or giving any stop to the taking of it albeit he was then resident in Person at Whitehall Erra 10. Neh. 9. Thus Ezra and Nehemiah drew all the people into a Covenant without any speciall Commission stom the Persian Monarchs then their Sovereigns so to doe albeit they were not free Subjects but Vassals and one of them the meniall Servant of Artaxerxes Neh. 1. then by Conquest King of Judah also Nor hath this doctrine or practise beene deemed seditious or unwarrantable by the Princes that have sate upon the English Throne but justified and defended by Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory with the expence of much Treasure and Noble blood in the united Provinces of the Netherlands combined not only without but against the unjust violence of Philip of Spaine King James followed her steps so farre as to approve their onion and to enter into league with them as free States which is continued by his Majestie now reigning onto this day who both by his expedition for reliefe of Roebel in France and his strict confederacy with the Prince of Orange and the States Generall notwithstanding all the importunitie of Spaine to the contrary hath set to his Seale that all that had beene done by his Royall Ancestors in maintenance of those who had so engaged and combined themselves was just and warrantable And what had become of the Religion Lawes and Liberties of our sister Nation of Scotland had they not entred into such a solemne League and Covenant at the beginning of the late troubles there which course however it was at first by the Popish and Prelatick Projectors represented to his Majestie as an offence of the highest nature justly deserving chastisement by the fury of a puissant Army yet when the matter came afterwards in coole blood to bee debated first by Commissioners of both kingdomes and then in open Parliament here when all those of either