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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78965	The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipfull the sheriffes, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-councell of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemne League and Covenant was renued by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London.; Great danger of covenant-breaking, &c.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1646 (1646)	Wing C254; Thomason E327_6; ESTC R200648	37,036	51

of Amongst the Romans when any Souldier was pressed he took an oath to serve his Captaine faithfully and not to forsake him and he was called Miles per sacramentum Sometimes one took an oath for all the rest and the others only said The same oath that A. B. took the same do I. And these were called Milites per conjurationem or milites evocati And when any souldier forsook his Captain he had Martiall law executed upon him Thus it is with every Christian He is a professed souldier of Christ he hath taken presse-money he hath sworn and taken the Sacrament upon it to become the Lords he is miles per sacramentū miles per conjurationem And if he forsake his Captaine and break covenant the great Lord of Hosts will be avenged of him as it is written Jer. 11. 3. Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant To break covenant is a sin of perjury which is a sin of a high nature and if for oathes the Land mourneth much more for breach of oathes To break covenant is a sin of spirituall adultery for by covenanting with God we do as it were joyne our selves in mariage to God as the Hebrew word signifieth Jer. 50. 5. Now to break the mariage knot is a sin for which God may justly give a Bill of divorce to a Nation To break covenant is a sin of injustice for by our covenant we do enter as it were into bond to God and engage our selves as a creditor to his debtor Now the sin of injustice is a Land-destroying sin The fourth reason why God must needs be avenged of those that are covenant-breakers is because it is an act of the highest Sacriledge that can be committed For by virtue of the Covenant the Lord layes claime to us as his peculiar inheritance Ezek. 16. 8. I sware unto thee and entred into covenant with thee and thou becamest mine Ier. 31. 33. I will be their God and they shall be my people It is worthy observation that in the Covenant there is a double surrender one on Gods part another on our part God Almighty makes a surrender of himself and of his Sonne and of the Holy Ghost Behold saith God I am wholly thy God all my power and wisdome and mercy and goodnesse c. is all thine my Son is thine and all his rich purchases My spirit is thine and all his graces This is Gods surrender On our parts when we take hold of the Covenant we make a delivery of our bodies and soules into the hands of God we choose him to be our Lord and Governour we resigne up our selves into his hands Lord we are thine at thy disposing we alienate our selves from our selves and make a Deed of gift of our selves and give thee the lock and key of head heart and affections c. This is the nature of every religious Covenant but especially of the Covenant of grace But now for a Christian to call in as it were his surrender to disclaime his resignation to steale away himself from God and to lay claim to himself after his alienation to fulfill his owne lusts to walk after his owne wayes to do what he lists and not what he hath covenanted to do and so to rob God of what is his this is the highest degree of Sacriledge which God will never suffer to go unpunished And surely if the stick-gatherer that did but alienate a little of Gods time and Ananias and Sapphira that withheld but some part of their estate and if Belshazzar for abusing the consecrated vessels of the Temple were so grievously punished how much more will God punish those that alienate themselves from the service of that God to whom they have sworn to be obedient It is observed by a learned Author of three famous Commanders of the Romans that they never prospered after they had defiled and robbed the Temple of Jerusalem First Pompey the great he went into the Sanctum Sanctorum a place never before entred by any but the High Priest and the Lord blasted him in all his proceedings after that time Vt ille qui terram non habuit ante ad victoriam deesset illi terra ad sepulturam That he that before that time wanted earth to overcome had not at last earth enough to bury him withall The next was Crassus who took away 10000 talents of gold from the Temple and afterwards dyed by having gold poured down his throat The third was Cassius who afterwards killed himself If then God did thus avenge himself of those that polluted his consecrated Temple much more will he not leave them unpunished that are the living temples of the Holy Ghost consecrated to God by a covenant and afterwards prove sacrilegious robbing God of that worship and service which they have sworn to give him The fifth reason why this sin makes the times perilous is because covenant-breakers are reckoned amongst the number of those that have the mark of reprobation upon them I do not say that they are all Reprobates yet I say that the Apostle makes it to be one of those sins which are committed by those that are given up to a reprobate minde Rom. 1. 28. 31. The words are spoken of the Heathen and are to be understood of breaking of covenants made between man and man But then the Argument will hold à fortiori If it be the brand of a reprobate to break covenant with man much more to break a covenant made with the great Jehovah by the lifting up of our hands to Heaven The last reason is because it is a sin against such infinite mercy such bowels of Gods unexpressible mercy It is said Jer. 31. 32. Which covenant they brake although I was a Husband to them That is Although I had chosen them for my Spouse and married my self unto them with an everlasting covenant of mercy and intailed Heaven upon them yet they have broken my covenant This was a great provocation Thus Ezek. 16. 4 5. When thou wast in thy blood and no eye pitied thee to have compassion upon thee I said unto thee when thou wert in thy blood Live yea I said unto thee Live It is twice repeated As if God should say Mark it O Israel when no eye regarded thee then I said unto thee Live Behold saith God verse 8. Thy time was the time of love Behold and wonder at it and I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakednesse yea I sware unto thee and entred into covenant with thee saith the Lord and thou becamest mine And yet for all this thou hast sinned grievously against me Woe woe unto thee saith the Lord God Ezek. 16. 23. There is a five fold mercy in the Covenant especially in the covenant of grace that makes the sinne of covenant-breaking to be so odious 1. It is a mercy that the great God will vouchsafe to enter into covenant with dust and ashes As David saith in