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A77297	Breach of covenant, a ruinating sinne. as it was preached at Clare in Suff. Novemb. 3. And now published for the good of adjoyning parts, especially those of Hinkford Hundred in Essex. / By a Country Minister.	Country minister.	1648 (1648)	Wing B4335A; ESTC R173245	22,627	24

his breach of Covenant with God or to sence off deserved wrath Salomon loved many strange women he cleave unto these in love It is probable he contracted with them to allow liberty of conscience it is evident that out of his uxoriousnesse he connived at and tolerated their Idolatry In this he broke Gods convenant and made a breach upon his own house 1 Kings 11.1 2. c. Shall we in paying our vowes to men infringe our vowes to God Or to keep faith with men break faith with God It is a sad thing to consider how men withdraw their oaths or chip and pare them that they may suit with their lusts Some will straine a little in it they shall pleasure a friend Men appearing for themselves 〈◊〉 ●side naturall affection Men appearing for God plead natures relations to crosse divine ingagements And is this aequall Pericles requested by a friend to do an unlawfull act replyed Oportet me commodare amitis sed usque ad aras Shall not this heathen rise up in judgment against many of us He that loveth father or mother more than me saith Christ is not worthy of me Mat. 10.37 Some pretend conscience of their ingagements but say it is not yet seasonable as the Iewes Hag. 1.2 This people say the time is not come the time that the Lords house should be built But marke what followes Is it time for you O ye to dwell in your cieled houses and this house lie wast Must we first attend our profits Verse 4. our pleasures our liberties our priviledges and then Gods honour I speak nothing of those wretches that covenant to curry favour or to cover themselves or to surprise others their own hearts condemn them Peter makes Ananias see himself left without excuse in his lying to the Holy Ghost his breaking his vow Acts 5.1 2 3 4. A pattern for all those to take heed by that pretending to advance Religion and Gods worship and service only seek themselves their owne honour and glory The Lord will have open infringers of his covenant die without mercy as being without all excuse See Deut. 17.2 3 4 5. It was the iudgement of an heathen that Faith given Numa either in respect of the publique or the private should be held and kept being the honest bond of humane society and the foundation of all right and aequity 3. Reas Because this is a leading sin a master a mother sin Because a leading sinne The more leading sins are the more do they speed and increase ruin God will have leading sinners punished and that without partiallity be they never so seemingly eminent be they never so neare so deare to us yea though they be many in number See Deut. 13. throughout the whole chapter Ieroboams sin was a most ruining sin because a leading sinne and this is the brand that is upon record upon him Iereboam the son of Nebat which caused Israel to sin Now this is a most leading sin for First it hath a strong influence on others The heart in its naturall estate is deceitfull above all things Jer. 17.9 and therfore prove to be infected by deceit Mens hearts naturally are prepared tinder on which the sparks of falshood alightting doe most readily take Mak Duffe fleeing the tyranny of Makbeth came into England to Malcolme Cammore and fought to perswade him being right heire to the Crown of Scotland to seek to recover his right and therein to free his country from a tyrant Malcolme suspecting deceit pretends insufficiency by reason of horrid vices reigning in him as first immoderate lust and lechery To this Mak-Duffe replyes that though this were an horrid vice yet he would take a course to cover it Secondly Malcholme tels him that he was the most avaratious creature on the earth To this Mak-Duffe replies that though this were a worse vice than the other yet if he would take the crown upon him there were riches enough in Scotland to satisfie this greedy desire But when lastly Melcholme tels him that he was inclined to dissimulation and breach of faith so that he reioyced in nothing so much as in betraying those that should trust him Mak duffe replies this yet is the worst of all and there I leave thee and so bemoaning his own and his countries misery break out into teares One perjured person is fit to make many such It is an easie matter for a son to imitate a false Father faithlesse Cain hath a faithlesse posterity Aetas parentum peior avis Tulit nos nequiores God alone can set bounds to this prevailing wickednesse and in exercising his free grace this way appears most mighty as well as most mercifull The aire is infected where such 〈◊〉 breath at liberty The Indians infected the Spaniards with the f●…disease and the Spaniards infected the Indians with their unfaithfullnesse Secondly it hath a strong influence upon the party that is guilty of it This is a most infatuating a most intoxicating sin He sticks at nothing that can easily swallow periury Mak-Duffe when Malcolme dissembles with him can find a remedy for other vices as coveteousnesse whoredom but none for this of perjury hee lookes upon such a one as desperate as past all cure He that lives in this sin without repentance hath Atheisme lording it in his heart and cannot but more or lesse have impiety and dishonesty appearing in his life and conversation See how lively the Lord laies open the vilenesse of such persons Isay 59.3 c. Your lips have spoken lyes your tongue hath muttered perversenesse None calleth for iustice nor any pleadeth for truth they trust in vanitie and speak lyes Here is the Character of these men their fruits follow They conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity They hatch Cockatrice eggs and weave the Spiders web c. ver 4 5.6 c. They brood and bring forth al manner of mischief horrid hurtfull poysonous c. They are strangers to all good all honesty all righteousnesse c. and therfore no marvell though these times were so dark and dismall We may well apply that to these men which the Lord speakes Deut. 32.32 Their vine is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorah their grapes are grapes of gall their clusters are bitter Their nature is very wicked their works are worse 4. Reas Because this is a sinne that God will by no meanes passe by or leave unpunished Exod. 20.7 The Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine This awakens vengeance in the Lord and that easily One Achan by his periury troubles all Jsraell God that is truth and a God of truth and cannot but soone resent and readily punish falshood Thus much of the explication and confirmation of this truth the Uses briefly follow 1 Vse Let us make inquiry after this Have we not spoken words swearing falsly in making a Covenant Is not this the troubler of our Israell Is not this the worme

that lies gnawing at the root of that gourd that hath heretofore overshadowed England We are a tumultuous Nation the foundations of the earth tremble all things are out of course we looked for peace and behold trouble And is there not a cause can that building long stand the foundations whereof are dayly undermined Get thee up Joshua saith the Lord leave off wondering Israell hath sinned and transgressed my covenant This was then hidden is England's so I would it might not be said that England's breach of Covenant is written in such capitall letters that he that runnes may reade it Jeremie in charity hopes the falshood and rebellion of the Jewes had passed no further then the common People but he finds to his griefe that the great men also who had more knowledge or pretended to more knowledge had altogether broken the yoake and burst the bonds Ier 5.4 5. J have nothing here to doe to speak of that horrid rash common customary swearing which though the law of the Land markes yet passeth unmarked in most parts of the Land I speake only to our more solemne ingagements and the breach of them Have we not sworn with false hearts Are there none that have made lies their refuge and hid themselves under falshood have we bin true in performing our ingagements to God to man have we in the zeale of God according to our Covenant in our severall places and callings laboured to advance what we have sworn to advance and to ruine what wee have sworn to ruine I sigh to speak it how soone is that which God hath upon record in heaven almost forgotten by us we ingaged our selves for Union and behold Division Whatsoever is contrary to sound Doctrine hath gotten dayly strength even since we covenanted its extirpation Never more prophanesse and whatsoever is contrary to the power of godlynesse and never lesse means among us here in the country to curb it The time permit to speake of particulars Men declare their sinne as Sodom they hide it not Our first love is grown cold we can see truth ly trodden under foote darknesse praeferred before light the blood of precious soules drawn forth and our hearts bleed not for it Many of us are forced sometimes to heare cursing and swearing and blasphemy under our roofes and out of feare we say nothing to it Where are the humbled Covenanters wher are the reformed ones wher are they that out of conscience of their ingagements endeavour to their utmost to give God and man their due Have not all sorts corrupted themselves where is almost the free Family where is the free Congregation have not private persons have not publick sworn falsly Are there no false Ministers amongst us have these done their duty have these stood in the gap now in these times wherein God hath sought for a man Are there no false Magistrates there were such in Ezra's dayes in Nehemiah's dayes Princes and Priests that with the first subscribed the Covenant and were soone Leaders in the breach of it See Ezra 10. A Covenant made broken Nehe 6 17 18 19. so Nehe 9.38 and 10. A Covenant made and subscribed by the Princes Priests c. soone after broken as we see chap. 13. J would there were none such in England Beloved the sinne is manifest and hath not God closely followed with his vengeance hath not iudgement broke in swiftly sadly sutably Is there not made a breach upon all our excellencies doth not our nakednesse appeare to our shame The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint From the sole of the foot even unto the head Allus to Iohn 8.7 there is no soundnesse but wounds and bruises and putirfying sores Isa 1.5 6. We are ready all to say bring forth the Troubler let him be stoned to death but who shall throw the first Stone at him 2. Vse Let us justifie the Lord in al his proceedings hitherto and admire his patience The Lord is righteous in all his wayes and holy in all his workes Ps 145.17 Proud Pharoah whose heart was hardened is forced by the divers iudgements of God and his differencing in them Exod. 9.27 to confesse that God is righteous but himself and his people wicked And shall we be more hard hearted than he Beloved we have had unnatural showers of blood unseasonable showers of raine the Lord hath seemed to threaten us in these parts to withdraw the appointed weekes in Harvest and to deprive us of the seed time we have had strange diseases and the hand of God is upon many of our Cattell Our poore in some parts have bin ready to perish for want of bread and our selves want either hand or hearts to relieve them Strangers have been ready to devoure our store and we lie under many burthens We roare al like Beares we murmur yea in our impatiency we raile but beloved we forget our duty Isa 59.11 Jt is of the Lords mercies we are not utterly consumed his compassions faile not Lam 3.22 Have wee bin true to our God have we been faithfull in our dealings one with an other have we bin carefull according to our solemn ingagement to reform our selves our families to advance truth to further peace My Son my soule give glory to the Lord God Hosea 14 1. for thou hast fallen by thine own iniquity Why will ye dye O house of Israell For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dyeth saith the Lord God Ezek 18.31 32. But shall he escape that doth such things or shall he breake the Covenant and be delivered Ezek. 17.15 God hath not dealt with us after our sinnes nor rewarded us after our iniquities Psal 103 10. 3. Vse Let us labour to ruine this Ruiner let us repent of this great evill and cast away from us this transgression whereby we have transgressed against the Lord. That ye may be moved hereunto consider 1. The folly of this thing Falsnes this way cannot be hid from God All things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to doe Heb 4.13 Achan is solitary in his acting periury in regard of man but the eye of God is upon him The falsnes of our hearts cannot be hid from him who is the searcher of the heart and trieth the reines Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him saith the Lord doe not I fill Heaven and Earth saith the Lord Ier. 32.24 Shall wee doe well to commit that in the presence of the All-seeing and immortall God Iosh 7.18 20. which we are ashamed to own in the presence of a mortall man Falsnesse this way shall not be long hid from men the Lot of God shall light upon thee and the alreaching hand of God shall so overtake thee that thou thy self shalt be thine owne betrayer God will reprove thee The Devill and thine own lusts shall be let loose to discover thee The Lord shall lead thee forth with