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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89791	The excellency and lawfulnesse of the Solemne league and covenant. Set forth in a speech, or exhortation made by Mr. Phillip Nye to the Honorable House of Commons and reverend assembly of ministers at their taking the said Solemne league and covenant.	Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.	1646 (1646)	Wing N1491; Thomason E318_7; ESTC R200550	8,967	8

perswaded unto This Oath is such and in the matter and consequence of it of such concernement as I can truly say it is worthy of us yea of all these Kingdomes yea of all the Kingdomes of the World for it is swearing fearly and allegiance unto Christ the King of Kings and a giving up of all these Kingdomes which are his inheritance to be subdued more to his Throne and ruled more by his Scepter upon whose shoulders the government is laid and in the encrease of whose Government and peace there shall be no end Esa 9. Yea wee finde this very thing in the utmost accomplishment of it to have beene the Oath of the greatest Angel that ever was who setting his feet upon two of Gods Kingdomes the one upon the Sea the other upon the Earth lifting up his hand to heaven as you are to doe this day and so swearing Revel 10. The effect of that Oath you shall finde to bee this that the kingdomes of the world become the kingdomes of the Lord and his Christ and he shall reigne for ever Revel 11. His Oath was for the full and finall accomplishment this of yours for a graduall yet a great performance towards it That which the Apostles and Primitive times did so much and so long pray for though never long with much quietnesse enjoyed that which our Fathers in these latter times have fasted prayed and mourned after yet attained not even the cause which many deare Saints now with God have furthered by extreamest sufferings poverty imprisonment banishment death even ever since the first dawning of Reformation That and the very same is the very cause and worke that we are come now through the mercy of Jesus Christ not only to pray for but sweare to And surely it can bee no other but the result and answer of such prayers and teares of such sincerity and sufferings that three Kingdomes should be thus born or rather new borne in a day that these Kingdomes should be wrought about to so great an engagement then which nothing is higher for to this end Kings raigne Kingdomes stand and States are upheld It is a speciall grace and favour of God unto you Brethren Reverend and Honorable to vouchsafe you the opportunity and to put into your hearts as this day to engage your lives and estates in matters so much concerning him and his glory And if you should doe no more but lay a foundation stone in this great worke and by so doing engage posterity after you to finish it it were honour enough But there may yet further use bee made of you who now are to take this Oath you are designed as cheife master Builders and choyce Instruments for the effecting of this setled Peace and Reformation which if the Lord shall please to finish in your hands a greater happinesse on earth nor a greater meanes to augment our glory and crowne in heaven you are not capable of And this let me further adde for your encouragement of what extensive good and fruit in the successe of it this very Oath may prove to be we know not God hath set his Covenant like the Heavens not onely for duration but like also for extension The Heavens move and roule about and so communicate their light and heare and vertue to all places and parts of the earth so doth the Covenant of God so may this gift bee given to other Covenants that are framed to that patterne How much this solemne League and Oath may provoke other Reformed Churches to a further Reformation of themselves what light and heate it may communicate abroad to other parts of the world it is onely in him to define to whom is given the utmost ends of the earth for his inheritance and worketh by his exceeding great power great things out of as small beginnings But however this I am sure of it is a way in all probability most likely to enable us to preserve and defend our Religion against our common enemies and possible a more sure foundation this day will be laid for ruining Popery and Prelacie the cheife of them then as yet we have been led unto in any age For Popery it hath been a Religion ever dexterous in fencing and mounting it selfe by association and joynt strength all sorts of professors amongst them are cast into Fraternities and Bother-hoods and these Orders carefully united by Vow one with another and under some more generall notion of common dependency Such States also and Kingdomes as they have thus made theirs they endeavour to improve and secure by strict combinations and leagues each to other witnesse of late yeares that La Sainte ligue the holy league It will not be unworthy your consideration whether seeing the preservation of Popery hath been by Leagues and Covenants God may not make a League or Covenant to bee the destruction of it Nay the very rise of Popery seemeth to bee after such a manner by Kings that is Kingdomes assenting and agreeing perhaps by some joynt Covenant the Text saith with one minde why not then with one mouth to give their power strength unto the Beast and make war against the Lambe Revel 17. where you reade the Lambe shall overcome the Beast and possibly with the same weapons he is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings he can unite Kings Kingdoms and give them one minde also to destroy the Whore and be her utter ruine And may not this dayes work be a happy beginning of such able sed expedition Prelacie another common enemie that we Covenant and sweare against what hath it been or what hath the strength of it been but a subtile combination of Clergy-men fo●med into a policy or body of their own invention framing themselves into Subordination and Dependency one upon another so that the interrest of each is improved by all and a great power by this meanes acquired to themselves as by sad experience wee have lately found The joynts and Members of this body you know were knit together by the sacred engagement of an Oath the Oath of Canonicall obedience as they called it You remember also with what cunning and industry they endeavoured lately to make this Oath and Covenant more sure for themselves and their posterity And intended a more publike solemn and universall engagement then since Popery this cause of theirs was ever maintained or supported by And questionlesse Ireland Scotland also must at last have been brought into this holy league with England But blessed be the Lord and ble sed be his good hand the Parliament that from the indignation of their spirits against so horrid a yoke have dashed out the very braines of this project and are now this day present before the Lord to take and give possession of this blessed Ordinance even an Oath and Covenant as solemne and of as large extent as they intended theirs uniting these three Kingdomes into such a league and happy combination as will doubtles preserve us and our