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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31498	Certain observations, vpon the new league or covenant as it was explained by a divine of the new assembly, in a congregation at London / written and sent unto him in a letter by some of his auditors, with copy of the said covenant.	Divine of the New Assembly.	1643 (1643)	Wing C1714; ESTC R7542	25,539	83

Parties amongst the people contrary to this League and Covenant that they may be brought to publique tryall and receive condigne punishment as the degree of their offences shall require or deserve or the supream Judicatories of both Kingdoms respectively or others having power from them for that effect shall judge convenient V. And whereas the happinesse of a blessed Peace between these Kingdoms denyed in former times to our Progenitors is by the good Providence of God granted unto us and hath been lately concluded and setled by both Parliaments we shall each one of us according to our place and interest indeavour that they may remain conjoyned in a firm Peace and Union to all Posterity And that Justice may be done upon the wilfull Opposers thereof in manner expressed in the precedent Article VI. We shall also according to our places and callings in this common cause of Religion Liberty and Peace of the Kingdoms assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing thereof and shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terror to be divided and withdrawn from this blessed Union and Conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary part or to give our selves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause which so much concerneth the glory of God the good of the Kingdoms and honour of the King but shall all the dayes of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to our power against all Lets and Impediments whatsoever and what we are not able our selves to suppresse or overcome we shall reveal and make known that it may be timely prevented or removed All which we shall do as in the sight of God And because these Kingdoms are guilty of many sins and provocations against God and his Son Jesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers the fruits thereof We professe declare before God and the world our unfeigned desire to be humbled for our own sins for the sins of these Kingdoms especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospell that we have not laboured for the purity and power thereof and that we have not endevoured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walk worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of other sins and Transgressions so much abounding amongst us and our true and unfeigned purpose desire and endeavour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publique and in private in all duties we owe to God and man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a reall Reformation that the Lord may turn away his wrath and heavy indignation and establish these Churches Kingdoms in Truth and Peace And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God the Searcher of all hearts with a true intention to perform the same as we shall answer at that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed Most humbly beseching 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 and safety to his people and encouragement to the christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the yoak of Antichristian Tyranny to joyn in the same or like Association and Covenant to the glory of God the enlargement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and the peace and Tranquility of Christian Kingdoms and Common-wealths FINIS

there was ever any Reformation amongst us we had thought we had been still in Egypt under the bondage of the man of Perdition when we hear the reputed Zealous men of this age cry out of our Doctrine Discipline Government Liturgie as Popish and Antichristian It 's rare we must confesse to meet with so much ingenuity in the Sermons of most that go your way Well it is confessed by you There is a Reformation amongst us and such a one as hath been countenanced with many excellent favours from above such as are deliverances from imminent dangers from open violence and secret treachery of the enemies of our Religion setled Peace and tranquillity the renown of this Nation farre and neer which have made us a glorious Church as any in Christendome For though afterwards in your discourse you took occasion to cry down those that cry up this Church for a glorious Church yet you had little reason for it so long as you confesse this Church to have been honoured by Almighty God with extraordinary favours which are as precious ornaments and adde an outward lustre to her inward beauty and comelinesse and so make her glorious then it is strange we should be so extreamly weary of this present Government under which we have enjoyed such mercies The benefits that have accompanied it might still be encouragements to us to submit unto it especially when as wise men know well enough alterations in Publique matters are so dangerous for suppose there were something in our Government or Discipline to be reformed as in the best ordered Politie that can be something upon good reason established at first may in time grow burthensome and inconvenient yet are these of such moment as rather then bear them you will engage the Kingdoms in a most desperate War and venture the ruining of Church and State the desolation of the Land nay the shaking of the very foundation of Religion by means of such Heresies as grow apace in such confused times as these Calvin is searce of your minde who though dis-affected to some of our Ceremonies and Liturgie yet is so moderate as to call them toler abides ineptiae trifles that might be born with rather then cause a greater misch of of Schisme or Sedition And certainly for any to think that the reforming or removing these trifles as he calls them is able to countervail half the blood-shed and other mischiefs that are come upon us is altogether unchristian and inhumane too and savours of an heart that hath yielded it self to be ruled by the spirit of perversnesse and disobedience The disease is far more tolerable to us and lesse displeasing unto God then such a kinde of remedie God blesse us from such Physicians whose mediernes put us into a far worse condition then ever our maladies could But not to infist long upon that where your self made but a short stay After you had laid this part of Scripture before the people though indeed it makes nothing for you yet you are so consident as to alledge every place that mentions but the name of Covenans as pleading for you then you passe to a generall division of this Covenant into the Title and Contents The Title viz A folemn League or Covenant there you lay down the nature of a Covenant which you define thus A bond whereby any one bindes himself unto another for the performance of something mutually agreed upon by eath party Here by the way we doubt whether each particular in this Covenantis agreed upon by both parties He to whom we binde our selves is God and of his consent we have no other way to judge but by his will revealed and if we search the whole Book of God we shall not be able to finde any probability of his consent that we should enter into a solemn League for abolishing those Laws and that form of Government under which we live without the consent of Him that by Gods speciall Ordinance is appointed our Soveraign Lord and King Befides each point of this Covenant is not agreed upon amongst your selves For how many be there who are enjoyned to enter into this League that know not what the Doctrine or Discipline of Scotland is that they must defend they hope perchance it 's good because commended to them by men reputed wise underst anding but what rashnesse is it in the mean time for men to subscribe to that which they know not therefore must needs doubt whether it may be done or not Nor are all agreed about the abolishing of Episcopacy If not the greatest yet surely a great part of this Kingdom are well opinioned of that Office and know that the preheminence of some above others in the Clergy is consonant to the word of God and the examples of the parest times and that Prelacy is used very injuriously when 't is ranked amongst those ugly and hatefull names of Papery Superstition Heresie Schisme Prophanenesse of purpose to make it appear alike evill with those whose company it is enforced to keep and that what is amisse therein may with lesse labour and more advantage to the State and Religion both be Reformed then the whole Fabrich be taken down Nor yet are all of those who stand for the abolishing of Episcopacy agreed about this Reformation according to the word of God No question but the Independants when they take this Covenant have another meaning then the Presbyterians have thinking that their Discipline is onely warranted by the word of God and then what mutuall agreement is there or what Consent in the raking of this Covenant amongst those severall sorts that take it though the Contrivers of it have dealt so subtily as to put it into such generall terms that there might be no bogling on starting aside but that each sort might take it though intellding severall senses After this definition you pinoced to the division of a Covenant into Sacred Civill Mixt which difference the nature of the Subject puts upon them as being Sacred onely or Civill onely or partly Sacred and partly Civill This present Covenant you call Sacred though you have no warrant from the Title that is set before it where t is onely called A Solemn League or Covenant nor yet from the matter or contents thereof For the four last Articles of this Covenant containe things meerly Civill as will easily appear to any indifferent judgement And as for the other two which concern Preservation of Religion in Scotland and Reformation in England Religion we grant is Sacred but as for defending preserving resorming they properly belong to the Civill Magistrate and are effected by that power that God hath committed to him So that we cannot perswade our selves that you should think it to be agreeable to the truth to call this a Sacred League onely you perceive that otherwise it might be some disadvantage to the cause The name of Sacred sets it out with greater credit and makes it more readily to be