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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52167	The covenant acknowledged by an English Covenanter, and the manifested wants of the common prayer, or divine service, formerly used, thought the fittest for publique worship by one vvhose hearty desires are presented to all the lovers of peace and truth in these nations, and shall be the prayers of a wel-wisher to both, and a very much obliged servant to all the promoters of this just cause, E.M., Mason.	E. M., Mason.	1660 (1660)	Wing M913; ESTC R7635	12,716	22

THE COVENANT Acknowledged by an English Covenanter AND The manifested wants of the Common Prayer or Divine Service formerly used thought the fittest for Publique Worship by one VVhose hearty desires are presented to all the Lovers of Peace and Truth in these Nations AND Shall be the Prayers of a Wel-wisher to both and a very much obliged Servant to all the Promoters of this Just Cause E. M. Mason LONDON Printed for JOHN MARRIOT and are to be sold in Fetter-lane next doore to the Golden Faulcon 1660. To the moderate Reader or others whose chance it may be to meet with these few leaves following I Am perswaded that some men will be offended with me because I should appear upon Paper and I desire to give them some of my weak reasons in way of satisfaction as being an engaged Covenanter who oftentimes have had some sad reflections upon my Spirit for being so silent thorow fear whether it did not make me and divers others accessary to the Death and Bloud of the late King which thing I ever abhorred in my thoughts he being Gods Vicegerent and by him set over us and by him alone to be judged who by a poor ague or grief of his distressed heart could have silenced him but left to try us Covenanters and also having protested to God with the rest of the Nation in a solemne League and Covenant not to diminish his just Power and Greatness much less his Life and with it such a destruction both of Church and State which I have lived to see to my great grief and done by professing Christians those that Covenanted also as we did not with Man but with the dreadful God and for private ends I fear and as now it doth plainly appear by the fruits this Self-interest hath brought forth for the good of the whole Nation these many years Otherwhiles I have had thoughts of the words that our blessed Saviour said to his Apostles that A Sparrow falls not to the ground without the will of God and it was his will to bring these heavy afflictions upon the Church State and King As the sacred Scriptures in divers places shew how the glorious Majesty and all-commanding power of Heaven and Earth hath done for the sins of divers Nations all whose wayes and judgments are perfect Justice and uncontroulable Truths And so likewise I had thoughts at other times of the gracious goodness of our merciful Father in ordering a way for the Redemption of lost man by the death and precious bloud-shedding of his righteous Son that holy Oblation But I observe that Judas had a hand in betraying his righteous Master for self-ends or envy but he perished with his ill-gotten monies and not alone For also in that relation I find divers persons of rank and quality both Priests and learned people too seeking divers wayes by their Emissaries how they might put him to death and not without the consent of many of the Commons also with whom they used such artifices being Joynt-confederates that the whole gang of them cry out His Bloud be on us and on our children and it stuck so close to them that the whole Nation felt the sad issues of their fearful Imprecations The good God deliver us from the same Judgements we having slain our King and taken possession and banished his Posterity toplease or share with a Party of self-interested men in the ruines of Him the Church and the Nations Laws and goods after a solemn Covenant made with hands lifted up to the most high God and contrary to the consent of most of the whole Nations who had no hand in his Death nor means to prevent it but by Weeping to see and hear what a few Armed men and their Complices would violently do contrary to known Law or right by a new-devised High Court by them called Justice set up by the tyrannizing Sword to destroy King Nobles and Law to satisfie their own bloud-thirsty designs I have had also divers debates in my mind about some scruples that were often there when I could not sleep about the Covenant and the Hanging of it up in our Churches as if it were a thing seriously to be performed or as a Testimony against us being so solemnly taken in his holy Temple once made to the God of all the earth who is able in a moment of time to destroy us poor crawling worms and so earnestly prest also upon the people by the Divines and by them and us so little regarded as if God were to be jested with and Mans Conscience would perpetually be injured and yet be silent or wink at such high deceiving subtilties And chancing to read in the Turkish History in the reign of Amurath the sixt King of the Turks who seeing the great slaughter of his men and all brought into extreme danger and beholding the Picture of the Crucifix in the displayed Ensigns of the Christians pluckt the writing out of his bosom wherein the League of the Christians was comprized and holding it up in his hands with his eyes cast up to Heaven said Behold thou crucified Christ This is the League thy Christians in thy name made with me which they have without cause violated now if thou be a God as they say thou art and as we dream revenge the wrong now done unto thy Name and me and shew thy power upon thy perjured people who in their deeds deny thee their God Shortly after the Turks got the victory and the poor Christians miserably put to the slaughter and Julian one of the Cardinals Author of the breach of the Christians Articles though fled found mortally wounded and near dead who was sharply reproved by an eminent Christian Gregory Sanose but left to perish unpitied in a Desart in which fatal Battle were slain such huge numbers of men that the hills and mountains raised with the bones of the slain in this Battle to this day bear witness as saith the same Author of the Turkish History Then good Friends what may we fear when the great God makes inquisition for Bloud and breach of Vows both of the Clergy that had the charge of our souls and should have given us true counsel as well as of the poor Laity who have been led as sheep to the slaughter when the Alarums have founded out of the Pulpits in the beginning of these Times Curse ye Meroz curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not to the help of the Lord against the mighty and others violently reproching the Liturgie or Prayer-book of our Church and all that owned it Malignants and Opposers of the Reformation Besides I being called though very unfit and more unserviceable for any publick duty and voted down or turned away February 9. 1659. from the discharge of our duties and Conscience enjoyned by Oath for the publick service of the City which that hasty Vote did not dissolve And I humbly conceiving it might be somewhat more than man that brought things