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A36441	A phenix, or, The Solemn League and Covenant whereunto is annexed : 1. The form and manner of His Majesties coronation in Scotland, with a sermon then preached on that occasion, by Robert Douglas of Edenburgh, II. A declaration of the Kings Majesty to all his loving subjects of the Kingdoms of Scotland, &c. in the yeare 1650, III. The great danger of covenant-breaking, &c., being the substance of a sermon preached by Edm. Calamy, the 14 of Jan., 1645, before the then Lord Mayor of the city of London, Sir Tho. Adams : together with the shieriffs [sic], aldermen, and Common-Councell of the said city : being the day of their taking the Solemn League and Covenant at Michael Basenshaw, London.	Douglas, Robert, 1594-1674.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. Great danger of covenant-breaking.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)	1662 (1662)	Wing D2034; ESTC R5271	65,771	176

must be carefull of the kingdom which he hath sworn to maintain We have had many of too private a spirit by whom self-interest hath been preferred to the publick It becommeth a king well to be of a publick spirit to care more for the publick then his own interest Senates and States have had Motto's written over the doors of the Meeting-places Over the Senates house at Rome was written Ne quid Republica detrimenti capiat I shall wish this may be written over your Assembly-houses But there is another which I would have written with it Ne quid Ecclesia detrimenti capiat Be carefull of both let not kirk nor State suffer hurt let them go together The best way for standing of a kingdome is a well constitute kirk They deceive kings who make them believe that the Government of the kirk I mean Presbyterial Government cannot sute with Monarchy They sute well it being the Ordinance of Christ rendring to God what is Gods and to Caesar what is Caesars Sir kings who have a tender care of the kirk Isa 41.3 are called Nursing Fathers You would be careful that the Gospel may have free passage through the kingdome and that the Government of the kirk may be preserved intire according to your Solemn Engagement The kirk hath met with many enemies as Papists Prelates Malignants which I passe as known enemies But there are two sorts more who at this time would be carefully looked on 1. Sectaries great enemies to the kirk and to all the Ordinances of Christ and more particularly to Presbyterian Government which they have and would have altogether destroyed A king should set himself against these because they are enemies as well to the king as to the kirk and strive to make both fall together 2. Erastians more dangerous snares to kings than Sectaries because kings can look well enough to these who are against themselves and their power as Sectaries who will have no king But Erastians give more power to kings than they should have and are great enemies to Presbyterial Government For they would make kings believe that there is no Government but the Civil and derived from thence which is a great wrong to the Son of God who hath the Government of the kirk distinct from the Civil yet no wayes prejudicial to it being spiritual and of another nature Christ did put the Magistrate out of suspition that his kingdom was prejudicial to Civil Government affirming My Kingdom is not of this world This Government Christ hath not committed to kings but to the Office-bearers of his house who in regard of civil subjection are under the civil power as well as others but in their spiritual administration they are under Christ who hath not given to any king upon earth the dispensation of spiritual things to his people SIR You are in covenant with God and his people and are obliged to maintain Presbyterial Government as well against Erastians as Sectaries I know this Erastian humour aboundeth at Court It may be some endeavour to make your reproach upon that for which God hath punished your Predecessors Be who he will that medleth with this Government to overturn it it shall be as heavy to him as the burthensome stone to the enemies of the kirk They are cut in pieces who burthen themselves with it Zach. 12. 3. A King in Covenant with the people of God should make much of those who are in Covenant with him having in high estimation the faithful Servants of Christ and the godly people of the Land It is rare to find kings lovers of faithful Ministers and pious people It hath been the fault of our own Kings to persecute the godly 1. Let the King love the Servant● of Christ who speak the truth Evi● Kings are branded with this tha● they contemned the Prophets 2 Chron. 25. when Amaziah had taken the gods of Seir and set them up for his gods a Prophet came to him and reproved him unto whom the King said Who made thee of the King counsel forbear lest thou be smitten This contempt of the Prophets warning is a fore-runner of following destruction Be a careful hearer o● Gods Word take with reproof esteem of it as David did Psal 141.5 An excellent oyl which shall not brea● the head To make much of the faithful Servants of Christ will be an evidence of reality 2. Let the King esteem well o● godly Professors Let Piety be in accompt It is a fault very common that pious men because of their conscientious and strict walking are hated by the Prophane who love to live loosely It is usual with prophane men to labour to bring kings unto a distaste of the godly especially when men who have professed Piety becomes scandalous whereupon they are ready to judge all pious men to be like them and take occasion to speak evil of Piety I fear at this time when men who have been commended for Piety have fallen fouly and betrayed their trust that men will take advantage to speak against the godly of the Land Beware of this for its Satans policy to put piety out of request Let not this move any Fall who will Piety is still the same and pious men will make conscience both of their wayes and trust Remember they are precious in Gods eyes who will not suffer men to despise them without their reward Sir let not your heart be from the godly in the Land whatever hath fain out at this time I dare affirm that there are very many really godly men who by their prayers are supporting your Throne 4. A king should be carefull whom he putteth in places of trust as a main thing for the good of the kingdome It is a Maxime that Trust should not be put in their hands who have oppressed the people or have betrayed their trust There is a passage in story meet for this purpose One Septimius Arabmus a man famous or rather infamous for Oppression was put out of the Senate but re-admitted About this time Alexander Severus being chosen to the Empire the Senators did entertain him with publick salutations and congratulations Severus espying Arabinus amongst the Senators cryed O Numina Arabinus non solum vivit sed in Senatum venit Ah! Arabinus not onely liveth but he is in the Senate Out of just indignation he could not endure to see him As all are not meet for places of trust in Judicatures so all are not meet for places of trust in Armies Men would be chosen who are godly and able for the charge But there are some who are not meet for trust 1. They who are godly but have no skil nor ability for the place a man may be a truly godly man who is not fit for such a place and no wrong is done to him nor to godliness when the place is denied to him I wonder how a godly man can take upon him a place whereof he hath no skill 2. They who have neither skill nor courage are

which we shall do as in the sight of God And because these Kingdomes 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 and declare before God and the world our unfained desire to be humbled for our own sins and for the sins of these Kingdomes especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that we have not laboured for the purity and power thereof and that we have not endeavoured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walk worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of our sins and transgressions so much abounding amongst us and our true and unfained purpose desire and endeavour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publick 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 real Reformation that the Lord may turn away his wrath and heavy indignation and establish these Churches and Kingdomes 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 the great Day when the secrets of all hearts shall 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 and safety to his people and encouragement to other Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the yoak of Antichristian tyranny to joyn in the same or like Association and Covonant to the glory of God the enlargement of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ and the peace and tranquility of Christian Kingdomes and Common-wealths Wil. Lenthal Speaker Beuchamp St. John Gilbert Gerrard Walter Earle James Cambel Thomas Cheeke Robert Nicholas Benjamin Rudyard John Gurdon Robert Harley Francis Knollis Edward Master John White Anthony Sapley Dennis Bond Lawrence Whitaker Michael Noble ●ere Hoby Richard Barwis Edward Baynton William Cawley John Moyle John Pyne George Searle Henry Vane senior Nevil Pool John Young Henry Herbert Thomas Sandys William Iesson Philip L. Herbert Thomas Bartington Martin Lumley John Trevor Francis Godolphin Thomas Arundell Edward Stephens Gilbert Piekering John Greve Oliver Cromwell Henry Vane junior William Cage Richard Erisey Philip L. Lisle Will. Heveningham Isaac Pennington Richard Cresheld Thomas Pelham Thomas Parker John Leigh John Harris Augustin Skinner John Venn William Strickland John Franklin Samuel Brown Robert Scawen Roger Hill John Button John Meyrick Ambrose Brown Richard Winn Edward Owner Charles Pym Charles L. Cranborn Ben. Weston Dudley North John Nut John Corbet Roger Burgoyne Peter Temple Benjamin Valentine Thomas Walsingham Oliver Luke William Alenson Humphrey Salwey Richard Moor William Ashurst Thomas Moor Thomas Fountain William Ellys Henry Shelley Rich. Shuttleworth Henry Ludlow George Gallop Robert Wallop Arthur Hesilrige Oliver Saint-John Thomas Grantham Francis Barnham Will. L. Fitz Williams Edmund Dunch Henry Mildmay Hugh Rogers Thomas Hatcher John Wray Simonds D'Ewes Anthony Bedingfield John Ashe William L. Munson Martin Lister Robert Goodwin Edward Thomas Henry Lucas Miles Corbet Philip Smith Cornelius Holland William Spurflowe John Lowry Peter Wentworth Henry Chomley Philip Stapleton William Pierrepoint Roger North Alexander Popham Thomas Hodges John Maynard Samuel Vassal Anthony Irby John Clotworthy John Br●●●●lme Richard Jervoyse John Blackiston Walter Long John Rolle Robert Jennor John Waddon William Masham John Lisle Edmund Fowel Edward Ashe Thomas Pury Richard Whitehead Richard J●nyns Humphrey Tufton Thomas Da●res Thomas Earl John Downes John Goodwyn Francis Drake William Waller Samuel Luke Francis Buller Richard Harman George Buller Arthur Onslowe Richard Wynwood Robert Pye H. L. Gray of Ruthin Richard Knightley John Pym Christoph Yelverton Anthony Nicoll Peter Wroth Robert Reynolds Nat. Barnardiston Henry Heyman William Purefoy Valentine Walton Michael Oldesworth William Wheeler Hall Ravenscroft T. L. Gray of Groby Thomas Middleton Edw. Hungerford Christopher Wrey Richard Lee Herbert Morley Thomas Lane Robert Cecil William Bell Thomas Some Herbot Grimstone Symon Snowe John Nash Herbot Grimstone Ralph Asheton Edward Ayshcoghe John Wylde John Trenchard Thomas Jervoyse Richard Browne William Plaiters Nathaniel Stephens Richard Rose Francis Rous Gilbert Millington Walter Young John Brown John Hippisley Edward Poole Henry Pelham William Hay John Driden Nathaniel Fyennes William Lewis Giles Grene William Lytton John Harvey Edward Dowce William Strode Edmond Prideaux Thomas Hoyle Edward Exton Francis Popham Zouch Tate John Curson Alexander Bence Squire Bence John Selden John Glyn Richard Onslow John Coke Tho. L. Wenman Bulstrode Whitlock George Montague Edward Partheriche Henry Campion VVilliam VVhittaker Denzel Holles Edward VVingate James Fennys Poynings Moore Edward Bisse junior VVilliam Jephson Edward Montague Norton Knatchboll Thomas Eden Edward Baynton Jo. Evelin Jo. Potts Sam. Rolls Ralph Ashton VVilliam Drake Pereg. Pelham VVilliam Brereton Thomas VViddrington Natha Hallows Joh. Bamfield Symond Thelwall Hen. VVorsley Phil. Parker Edw. Boys John Alford Die Veneris 29 Januar. 1644. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That the Solemn League and Covenant be on every day of Fast and Publique Humiliation publiquely read in every Church and Congregation within the Kingdome And that every Congregation be enjoyned to have one of the said Covenants fairly Printed in a fair Letter in a Table fitted to hang up in some publick place of the Church to be read Hen. Elsynge Cler. Pail Dom. Com. The Form and Order of the CORONATION OF CHARLES II. King of Scotland England France and Ireland As it was acted and done at Scoon the first day of January 1651. By Robert Dowglas Minister at Edinburgh FIrst the Kings Majesty in a Princes Robe was conducted from his Bed-chamber by the Constable on his right hand and the Marshal on his left to the Chamber of presence and there was placed in a Chair under a cloth of State by the Lord of Angus Chamberlain appointed by the King for that day and there after a little repose the Noblemen with the Commissioners of Barons and Burroughs entred the Hall and presented themselves before his Majesty Thereafter the Lord chancellor spoke to the King to this purpose Sir your good Subjects desire You may be crowned as the righteous and lawful Heir of the Crown of this Kingdome that you would maintain Religion as it is presently professed and established conform to the National covenant League and Covenant and according to your Declaration at Dumferling in August last Also that you would be graciously pleased to receive them under Your Highnesse Protection to govern them by the Lawes of the Kingdome and to defend them in their Rights and Liberties by Your Royal power offering themselves in most humble manner to Your Majesty with their vows to bestow land life and what else is in their power for the maintenance of

stones and flew him at the Kings commandment And ver 22. it is said Joash remembred not the kindnesse that Jehojada his Father had done to him but slew his Son Sir Take this example for a warning You are obliged by the Covenant to go on in the work of Reformation it may be some great ones are waiting their time not having opportunity to work for the present till afterward they may make obeysance and perswade you to destroy all that hath been done in the work of God these divers years Beware of it Let no allurement of perswasion prevail with you to fall from that which this day you bind your self to maintain Another example I give you yet in recent memory of your Grandfather King James He fell to be King very young in a time full of difficulties yet there was a godly party in the Land who did put the Crown upon his head And when he came to some years He and and his people entred in a Covenant with God he was much commended by godly and faithful men comparing him to young Josiah standing at the Altar renewing a Covenant with God and he himself did thank God that he was born in a reformed Kirk better reformed then England for they retained many Popish ceremonies yea better reformed then Geneva for they keep some holy days charging his people to be constant and promising himself to continue in that Reformation and to maintain the same Notwithstanding of all this he made a foul defection He remembred not the kindness of them who had held the Crown upon his head yea he persecuted faithful Ministers for opposing that course of defection He never rested till he had undone Presbyterial Government and Kirk Assemblies setting up Bishops and bringing in ceremonies against which he had formerly given large testimonies In a word he laid the foundation whereupon his Son our late King did build much mischief in Religion all the days of his life Sir I lay this example before you the rather because it is so near you that the guiltinesse of the transgression lieth upon the Throne and Family and it is one of the sins for which you have professed humiliation very lately Let it be laid to heart take warning requite not faithful mens kindnesse with persecution yea requite not the Lord so who hath preserved you to this time and is setting a Crown upon your head Requite not the Lord with apostasie and defection from a sworn Covenant but be stedfast in the Covenant as you would give testimony of your true humiliation for the defection of those that went before you I have set these two examples before you as Beacons to warn you to keep off such dangerous courses and shall add one of that godly mans adherence to God The example is of Hezekiah who did that which was right in the sight of the Lord 2 Kings 18.6 6. It is said of him he trusted in the Lord God of Israel and he clave unto the Lord and departed not from following him but kept his Commandments And ver 7. The Lord was with him and he prospered whithersoever he went forth Sir follow this example cleave unto the Lord and depart not from following him and the Lord will be with you and prosper you whithersoever you go To this Lord from whom we expect a blessing on this dayes work be glory and praise for ever Amen Sermon being ended Prayer was made for a blessing upon the Doctrine delivered The King being to renew the Covenants first the National Covenant then the solemn League and Covenant were distinctly read After the reading of these Covenants the Minister prayed for grace to perform the contents of the Covenants and for faithful stedfastness in the Oath of God and then the Ministers and Commissioners of the General Assembly desired to be present standing before the Pulpit he ministed the Oath unto the King who kneeling and lifting up his right hand did swear in the words following I CHARLES King of Great Brittain France and Ireland do assure and declare by solemn Oath in the presence of Almighty God the Searcher of hearts my allowance and approbation of the National Covenant and of the solemn League and Covenant above written and faithfully obliege my self to prosecute the ends thereof in my Station and Calling And that I for my self and Successors shall consent and agree to all Acts of Parliament enjoyning the Nationall Covenant and of the Solemne League and Covenant and fully establish Presbyteriall Government the Directory of Worship Confession of Faith and Catechisms in the Kingdome of Scotland as they are approved by the Generall Assemblies of this Kirk and Parliament of this Kingdome And that I shall give my Royall assent to Acts and Ordinances of Parliament passed or to be passed enjoyning the same in my other Dominions And that I shall observe these in my own practise and Family and shall never make oppositon to any of these or endeavour any change thereof After the King had thus solemnly sworn the Nationall Covenant the League and Covenant and the Kings Oath subjoyned unto both being drawn up into a fair Partchment the King did subscribe the same in presence of all Thereafter the King ascendeth the Stage and sitteth down in the Chair of State Then the Lords great Constable and Marshall went to the four corners of the Stage with the Lyon going before them who spoke to the people these words Sirs I do present unto you the King Charles the rightfull and undoubted Heir of the Crown and Dignity of this Realm this day is by the Parliament of this Kingdome appointed for his Coronation And are you not willing to have him for your King and become Subjects to his Commandments In which action the Kings Majesty stood up showing himself to the people in each corner And the penple expressed their willingnesse by chearful acclamations in these words God save the King Charles the Second Thereafter the Kings Majesty supported by the Constable and Marshall cometh down from the Stage and sitteth down in the Chair where he heard the Sermon The Minister accompanied with the Ministers before mentioned cometh from the Pulpit toward the King and requireth If he was willing to take the Oath appointed to be taken at the Coronation The King answered he was most willing Then the Oath of Coronation as it contained in the eighth Act of the first Parliament of King James being read by the Lyon the Tenour whereof followeth Because that the increase of Vertue and suppressing of Idolatry craveth That the Prince and the people be of one perfect Religion which of Gods mercy is now presently professed within this Realm Therefore it is statuted and ordained by our Soveraign Lord my Lord Regent and three estates of this present Parliament that all Kings Princes and Magistrates whatsoever holding their place which hereafter at any time shall happen to Raign and bear rule over this Realm at the time of their Coronation and

loyal Subjects and be called The Repairers of the Breach by the present and succeeding Generations and they may certainly promise to themselves a Blessing from God upon so just and honourable undertaking for the Lord and for his Cause for their own Liberties their Native King and countrey and the unvaluable good and happinesse of their Posterity Whatever hath formerly been his Majesties guiltinesse before God and the bad successe that these have had who owned his Affairs whilst he stood in opposition to the Work of God yet the state of the question being now altered and His Majesty having obtained Mercy to be on Gods side and to prefer Gods Interest before his Own He hopes That the Lord will be gracious and countenance his own Cause in the hands of weak and sinful Instruments against all Enemies whatsoever This is all that can be said by His Majesty at present to those in England and Ireland at such a distance and as they shall acquit themselves at this time in the active discharge of their necessary Duties so shall they be accepted before God endeared to his Majesty and their Names had in remembrance throughout the World Given at Our Court of Dunfirmlin the sixteenth day of August 1650. and in the second year of Our Raign FINIS The great danger of Covenant-refusing and Covenant-breaking 2 Tim. 3.3 Truce-breakers or Covenant-breakers IN the beginning of the Chapter the Apostle tells us the condition that the Church of God should be in in the last dayes This know also that in the last dayes perilous times shall come In the second Verse he tells us the reason why these times should be such hard and dangerous times For men shall be lovers of themselves covetous c. The reason is not drawn from the miseries and calamities of the last times but from the sins and iniquities of the last times It is sin and iniquity that makes times truly perilous Sin and sin only takes away Gods love and favour from a Nation and makes God turn an enemy to it Sin causeth God to take away ●●e purity and power of his Ordinances from a Nation Sin makes all the creatures to be armed against us and makes our own conscience to fight against us Sin is the cause of all the causes of perilous times Sin is the cause of our civil warres 2 Sam. 12.11 Sin is the cause of our divisions Jam. 4.1 Sin is the cause why men fall into such dangerous errours 2 Thess 2.11 Sin brings such kinds of judgements which no other enemy can bring Sin brings invisible spiritual and eternal judgements It is sin that makes God give over a Nation to a sense Rom. 1.24 Sin makes all times dangerous Let the times be never so prosperous yet if they be sinful times they are times truly dangerous And if they be not sinful they are not dangerous though never so miserable It is sin that makes Afflictions to be the fruits of Gods revenging wrath part of the curse due to sin and a beginning of Hell It is sin and sin only that imbitters every affliction Let us for ever look upon sin through these Scripture spectacles The Apostle in four verses reckons up 19 sins as the causes of the miseries of the last dayes I may truly call these 19 sins Englands Looking-glasse wherein we may see what are the clouds that eclipse Gods countenance from shining upon us the Mountains that lye in the way to hinder the settlement of Church-discipline Even these 19 sim which are as an Iron whip of 19 strings with which God is whipping England at this day which are as 19 Faggots with which God is burning and devouring England My purpose is not t● speak of all these sins Onely let me propound a Divine project how to make the times happy for soul and body And that is To strike at the root of all misery which is sin and iniquity To repent for and from all these 19 sins which are as the Oyl that feedeth and encreaseth the flame that is now consuming of us For because men are lovers of themselves Vsque ad contemptum Dei Reipublicae Because men drive their own designes not only to the neglect but contempt of God and the Common-wealth Because men are covetous lovers of the world more then lovers of God Because they are proud in head heart looks and apparel Because they are unthankful turning the mercies of God into instruments of sin and making Darts with Gods blessing to shoot against God Because men are unholy and beady and make many covenants and keep none Because they are as the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifieth Devils acting the Devils part in accusing the brethren and in bearing false witnesse one against another Because they have a form of godlinesse denying the power thereof c. hence it is that these times are so sad and bloudy These are thine enemies O England that have brought thee into this desolate condition if ever God lead us back into the wildernesse it will be because of these sinnes And therefore if ever you would have blessed dayes you must make it your great businesse to remove these 19 mountaines and repent of these land-devouring and soul-destroying abominations At this time I shall pick out the first and the tenth sin to speak on The first is self-love which is placed in the forefront as the cause of all the rest Self-love is not only a sin that makes the times perilous but it is the cause of all those sins that makes the times perilous For because men are lovers of themselves therefore they are covetous proud unholy c. The tenth sinne is truce-breaking and for fear lest the time should prevent me I will begin with this sinne first The tenth sin then is truce-breakers or as Rom. 1.33 Covenant-breakers The Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth three things First such as are foederis nescii as Beza renders it or as others infoederabiles that is such as refuse to enter into Covenant Or secondly such as are foedifragi qui pacta non servant as Estius hath it or sine fide as Ambrose that is such as break faith and Covenant Or thirdly such as are implacabiles or as others sine pace that is such as are implacable and haters of peace According to this threefold sense of the word I shall gather these three observations Doct. 1. That to be a Covenant-refuser is a sin that makes the times perilous Doct. 2. That to be a Covenant breaker is a sin that makes the times perilous Doct. 3. That to be a peace hater or a truce-hater is a sin that makes the times perilous To begin with the first Doctrine the first That to be a Covenant-refuser is a sinne that makes the times perilous To be foederis nescius or indefoederabilis For the understanding of this you must know that there are two sorts of Covenants There are divellish and hellish Covenants and there