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spirit_n	great_a	holy_a	lord_n	8,454	5	3.5600	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77428	A briefe discourse, declaring the impiety and unlawfulnesse of the new Covenant with the Scots. Together with the Covenant it selfe.		1643 (1643)	Wing B4580; Thomason E73_1; ESTC R14064	10,599	20

at that great day when the secrets of all hearts shal be disclosed most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his holy Spirit for this end And to blesse our desires and proceedings with such successe as may be deliverance safety to his People and incouragement to the Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the yoak of Antichristian Tyranny to joyne in the same or like Association and Covenant To the glory of God the Inlargement of the Kingdom of Iesus Christ and the Peace and Tranquility of Christian Kingdomes and Common-Wealths A briefe Discourse declaring the impiety and unlawfulnesse of the new COVENANT with the Scots Keepe not thou silence O God hold not thy peace and be not still O God For lo thine enemies make a tumult and they that hate thee have lift up the head They have taken crafty counsell against thy people and consulted against thy hidden ones They have said come and let us cut them off from being a nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance For they have consulted together with one consent they are confederate against thee Mine enemies reproach me all the day and they that are mad are sworne against me For they speake against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vaine THese were once the complaints of the Psalmist against Gods enemies and his in those times But now they may be justly alas too justly taken up by the King and His faithfull Subject in these times against the contrivers and prosecutors of that monstrous Rebellion which hath beene the deformed and unnaturall issue that the hellish copulation of Satan with this wicked and adulterous generation the very lees and dreggs of almost exhausted time hath brought forth It is a monster indeed made up of many monsters every limbe or part of it is as it were a severall portent presaging without the great mercy of God a generall ruine to this poore nation in all that it can stile good lawes lives religion soules government order plenty safety honour and that in the ruines whereof if not the substance yet the beauty and comfort of all the rest must needs be buried the happy peace of this Kingdome A monster every day almost growing more and more monstrous ever and anon contracting not onely more stature but wherein it out-does all the most grosse errours of nature if I may so call them new limbes new organs and members of confusion and I would it did not out strip them in one thing more Nature doth seldome use to maintaine her errours and therefore though I know not how she brings them forth yet she is not wont to give them a long life which may seeme a kind of recantation of nature she makes hast to scrape out those blots which she hath made If they be long-lived it is as it were another wonder and so another multiplyed errour of nature when I speake of the errour of nature I meane the misapplication or disordered working of second causes But this oh it hath lived too too long already and yet it appeares to be still too youthfull since it is not yet come unto its full stature It is of so strange a continuance as well as of sad and uncouth importance that we could scarce tell whether it were a Comet or a Starre but that wee discover it by it's low region wherein it moves and by its irregular motion and by that blazing traine of mischiefes at the tayle of it to have no place amongst the heavenly bodies as some mad Astronomers of our age would perswade us but that as it is raised from those foggy and unwholsome vapours that not the earth or water but even hell it selfe hath belcht forth to the confusion and destruction of mankinde so we are sure it will not still continue but will at length wast and consume it selfe and fall downe though with such a stench and evill influence that may perhaps suffocate many thousands that are about it Much hath beene done and by skilfull hands towards the anatomy and description of this monster and no wonder if some have met with damps from it in endeavour like those that open fowle and corrupted bodies which many times send out those maligne vapours that are ready to poyson those that have attempted it I my selfe have had my share of this mischiefe and yet when the common good calls for it in the care we must have for the preservation of publique dangers though to the perill of our particular safeties wee must not desist from the worke I dare not undertake to expose unto your view all the deformities of this strange prodigie I doubt it hath not yet all its parts and members whilest it still lives we can never say we have fully decyphered it And though we would very faine kill it by dissection yet as it is in the usuall practise of those that anatomize bodies to do it when they are dead so you must looke for the perfect worke in the dissection of this when it is dead too it is too unquiet a monster to suffer it before and too increasing to be capable of it Besides the horrible composure of it is so various and perplexed that it is very hard to undertake it That which I have to doe at this present is to set forth unto you the strange language of this beast We reade of a monstrous beast in the Revelation that had a mouth given unto it speaking great things and blasphemies Revel 13.5 And surely such is the language of this monster especially in this strange and horrid Covenant and Oath which they have of late taken upon them and commended unto others for can there be any greater blasphemy then to offer God for security unto Sathan to forge his hand and counterfeit his seale as it were to an obligation to binde men over to the Devill We reade of it as a great aggravation of sinne that men frame iniquity by a Law This they have done too as farre as in them lyes but not content with this they have now proceeded farther to frame iniquity by an Oath and Covenant That as they kill mens bodies on the one side so they may destroy soules too on the other as if they would goe about to confute our Saviour where he telleth us that men are able onely to destroy the body and doe no more and shew that they can in some sense destroy both body and soule in hell My desire is to lay open this mischiefe before the people that they may take heed how they are entrapped in so dangerous a snare wherein you must not looke for so exact a discovery as might have beene made but such as I was able in great hast to make of it being desirous to apply a speedy prevention though with lesse serious composition unto so dangerous an evill and that plainly to the capacity of the meanest of the people not doubting but that those that have judgement