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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87193	The necessity of some nearer conjunction and correspondency amongst evangelicall Protestants, for the advancement of the nationall cause, and bringing to passe the effect of the covenant.	Hartlib, Samuel, d. 1662.	1644 (1644)	Wing H994; Thomason E16_18; ESTC R239	3,711	8

THE Necessity of some NEARER Conjunction and Correspondency amongst EVANGELICALL PROTESTANTS for the Advancement of the NATIONALL CAUSE AND Bringing to passe the Effect OF THE COVENANT London Printed 1644. THE Necessity of some Neerer Conjunction and Correspondencie amongst Evangelicall Protestants for the Advancement of the Nationall Cause and bringing to passe the Effect of the Covenant AS the desperate and malicious Attempts of implacable Adversaries to the true Reformed Religion within the three Kingdoms is a most just and necessary Ground for all true Protestants under the Authority of the State to enter into a League and Covenant one with another for their mutuall Defence and the Preservation of their Religion So the Bond by which Religious souls in the profession of the same Truth through the Communion of Saints are knit together in God is a most Laudable Lawfull and Powerfull Inducement to move them to pray earnestly unto Almighty God and to endeavour really amongst all Godly men that all other Churches and States either oppressed or in danger to be oppressed by the same Antichristian Tyranny may be brought unto the same or the like Union and Covenant for the Enlargement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ for their own Safety under the Ordinances of the Gospel and for the Preservation of Christian Kingdoms and States from the Troubles and Ruines which the incroaching Power and subtill Plots of wicked Enemies do intend to bring upon them These things being sufficiently expressed and fully intended the one in the Preface the other in the Close of the Nationall Covenant the first to warrant the Undertaking the second to confirm the prosecuting of this Religious Nationall work do give me cause to make a Motion which may by Gods Grace become an Effectuall means not onely to help forward the Businesse to this Period and Issue which may prove the finall Overthrow of Antichrist in Europe but also to open a way through a neer Correspondency and Conjunction of Protestants amongst themselves to dilate the Bounds of Christs Evangelicall Church so far as to offer in due time the Light of Saving Truth both unto Jews and Gentiles who as yet are in the shadow of Death and Darknesse Nor ought any to think that this Aim is too Vast and Large Rom. 11. 〈…〉 seeing it is cleerly revealed to be Gods Will to bring it to passe And it may be made apparant that no Means are so likely and proportionate to produce such an Effect as these which are now in Gods hand and most seasonable to be applied unto the fulfilling of the Covenant and fittest to be raised upon the Endeavours necessary for our own Preservation For if any will rationally consider the Troubles of all States and Churches in Europe he may easily observe that they proceed Originally from three Causes The first is the Affectation of a Spirituall Absolute Power over Mens Souls The second an Absolute Temporall Monarchy over Mens Estates and Bodies And the third is the want of Union and good Intelligence amongst those who labouring to free themselves from the one and the other Yoke and Maintaining their Religious and Naturall Rights and Priviledges in a distracted and confused way rather weaken then strengthen one anothers hands in all their Enterprises The Spirituall Absolute Dominion over Mens Souls is the Aim of the Pope and his Adherents amongst which we must reckon our Lordly Bishops The Absolute Temporall Monarchy hath been the Aim of the House of Austria till Sweden and France came in to break his Strength and frustrate his Intentions which they have done These Papall and Austrian Designes have divided the Affections of all Men in Europe either in respect of Conscience or of Civill Interests As for the Austrian Designes they are no more henceforth Formidable But the Papall Intentions are deeper laid Nor is the strength of his Counsel and his way duely regarded and therefore it is also Prevailing because not rightly resisted The Pope in opposition to Protestancie which hath almost overthrown his Hierarchy doth labour to preserve himself and regain in the Unsettlement of Protestant States and the Overthrow of their Churches his former Power chiefly in Germany and in Great-Britain the two principall Seats of the Protestant Religion His Way is twofold The first Politicall the second Ecclesiasticall By the first he doth Unite all Popish Princes in one Way and Counsell against those Princes that he calls Hereticks to weaken them to corrupt their Counsells and to keep them under lest they should come to have the Managing of Affairs to his disadvantage Thus he made the Princes of Germany conspire contrary to all the Fundamentall Laws of the Empire and Rights of Princes to translate the Electorall Dignity from the Palatine to the Bavarian House that the Protestant Voices might be Weakned in the Supreme Colledge of State and by that Means all Affairs managed for the Advantage of Papists who now have distributed the States of Protestants amongst themselves and to serve his Ends they maintain their own Interests By the second he divideth the Spirits of Protestants and encreaseth all the Disorders and Confusions which are amongst them partly by Emissaries of all sorts which he doth send forth some out of his Colledges de Propaganda some out of other Orders and Societies partly by Treaties tending to patch up Matters of Difference under Generall Terms wherein he may finde his Advantages The Emissaries they undermine the Affections chiefly of the Common sort And those that are instructed to treat deal Principally with such as are in Places of Authority Civill and Ecclesiasticall either to discover their Counsels to disappoint them or to Corrupt their Inclinations if they finde them Pliable And all this the Papall Conclave doth prosecute with undefatigable Diligence with innumerable Agents with infinite Cost and Charge with all manner of Crafty Insinuations and fair Pretences and with all the Zeal that the Opinion of Deserving Heaven and the Hope of Temporall Greatnesse and Gain can breed in Superstitious in Ambitious and in Covetous Mindes Nor is there any as yet amongst the severall Bodies of Protestants who is set to Watch over his ways and to walk contrary to him for their Common Interest labouring to disappoint his Plots by Means opposite to his Designes This want of Conjunction of Protestants not minding his Practises hath given him a mighty Advantage against them nor is it possible to Accomplish his Overthrow except this Fault be mended nor can this Defect otherwise be mended but by some neerer Correspondencie of Protestants amongst themselves for their mutuall Preservation against his Enterprises Now to set this correspondency on Foot none have so great cause and so good an opportunity as the British Nation and this present Parliament of England For all the Popish power of Europe is now stirred up and bent to hinder that work of Reformation which they have taken in hand therefore they may justly and ought also to move all Protestants to