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A90814	The paper called the Agreement of the people taken into consideration, and the lawfulness of subscription to it examined, and resolved in the negative, by the ministers of Christ in the province of Lancaster. Published by them especially for the satisfaction of the conscience, and guiding of the practise of our entirely honored and beloved, the people of our several churches, committed to our charge; and for the general good of this Church & nation.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1649 (1649)	Wing P279; Thomason E546_27; ESTC R203122	28,425	38

to oppose Hereticks and not the larger and superior of the Magistrate only the Apostle might forbear to mention it of the Magistrates they being at that time generally unchristian 4. The Holy Ghost foretelleth that those ten Kings which do first give their power and strength unto the beast and do make war with the Lamb being overcome by him Rev. 17.12 13 14 16 shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and shall burn her with fire that is shall destroy the Roman Antichrist or Rome Antichristian and that not only as the beast having civil dominion but as the great Whore that is as a corrupter of Religion by lyes and idolatry Ver. 1 2 3 4 5 and a seducer of the Kings and inhabiters of the earth to her false Religion But how shall they lawfully do this if Kings and States have no sword power or duty to command enforce and punish in the cause of Religion 3. Having thus we hope sufficiently confirmed the unwarrantableness of such a manumission and protection of irreligion false doctrine and perverse ways by Scripture authority we shall for a close tender to consideration 1. How can those Caveats given us by our blessed Saviour and his Apostles Matth. 7.15 To beware of false Prophets To take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees Cap. 16 6 and of the Sadduces To mark them which cause divisions Rom. 16.17 and offences contrary to the doctrine received Gal. 1.9 and to avoyd them If any man preach any other Gospel Phil. 2.2 then that we have received to Anathematize him To beware of dogs 1 John 5.21 evil workers and of the concision To keep our selves from Idols and many others How can the observation and the practice of these and a subscription and grant of such a liberty consist together 2. How can we do this and yet be true to our Covenant wherein we stand bounden sincerely really and constantly to endeavor in our several places and callings Artic. 1 2. the Reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland in doctrine Worship Discipline and Government To bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdoms to the neerest Conjunction and Vniformity in Religion Confession of Faith Form of Church-Government and Catechising That we shall in like manner without respect of persons endeavor the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Superstition Heresie Schism Profaness and whatsoeven shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness 3. In doing this thing shall we not fail desert and give up that Cause for which defensive Arms were taken up by the Parliament and Kingdom for the maintenance of which so many lives have been adventured so much blood hath been spilt such miseries have been waded through in the late Wars yea so many prayers put up and Fasts publique and private observed one main if not the first and principal part of which Cause was the Vindication and Defence of Religion See Declarat of both Kingdoms 1643. And shall we thus improve and requite all the wonderful successes and deliverances wherewith the Lord of hostes hath owned and pleaded this Cause for us and answered our desires therein 4. What advantage would this liberty give to our and religions enemies to open their mouthes in reproaches blasphemy against our way who have formerly objected against us That our designe was to promote private fancies to introduce a multiformity of Religion and to subvert Magistracy and whom we have charged with a cup filled up to the brim of Apostacy Atheism Decla of both Kingdoms p. 4. Idolatry Blasphemies and Profaness 5. Shall we not asperse all the petal Laws of the Land and all the judicial proceedings that have been upon them since the Reformation against Seminary Priests Jesuits and Papists or any other justly suffering in matter of Religion as acts of highest injustice being against the Fundamentals of common Right Freedom and Safety Lastly Will not this Liberty reduced into practice be in danger not only to deface defile rend and crumble to nothing our Churches but to fill the Kingdom full of Factions and Tumults and tend to the overthrow of the Magistrates power in civil things and that men having once got head and immunity in the things of God will proceed to introduce a lawlesness and impunity in humane Interests the Commandments of both Tables being so united and enwreathed in one that they stand and full together Iames 2.10 and the violation of one hath an influence upon all and it being so easie for men willing to err to entitle any civil extravagancy not only to Conscience but to Faith and Religion We have thus in the uprightness of our hearts delivered our Judgment concerning this Agreement and Subscription to it not affecting Division or Faction but vehemently desiring and seeking a religious Peace and right agreement of the people not intending any disrespective reflexion upon the persons of any but heartily desiring the true honor and happiness of all and endeavoring according to our places to prevent the great evils that we pre-apprehend will ensue if this Agreement should be carried on As for us we shall not we trust sin against the Lord 1 Sam. 12 23. in ceasing to pray for you our dear Flocks and the rest of the Churches of Christ in these Kingdoms of England and Ireland that he would direct your course in this case of so weighty and fundamental an importance and we have herein endeavored to shew you the good and the right way And having layd before you those Grounds upon which we profess our disagreement and dissent to the Book called the Agreement of the People We testifie the same by underwriting our names Richard Heyrick Warden of Christs Colledg in Manchester Richard Hollinworth Fellow of the said Colledg William Walker Minister there Alexander Horrocks Minister in the Dean parish John Tilsley Pastor at Dean William Alt Ministers of the Gospel at Bury Toby Forness Ministers of the Gospel at Bury Robert Bathe Pastor of the Church at Rachdale James Hyet Pastor at Croston William Ward Min. of the Gospel at Walton Thomas Johnson Pastor of Halsal Edward Woolmer Min. of Flixton Thomas Cranage Pastor of Brindle James Wood Pastor at Asshton in Makerfield Edward Fleetwood Pastor at Kirkam John Angier Pastor of Denton Thomas Pyke Pastor of Radcliff John Harrison Pastor of the Church at Asshton-underline Jonathan Scholefield Min. at Heywood Thomas Holland Pastor of Ringley Robert Constantine Pastor of Oldham William Meek Pastor of Salford James Walton Min. of Blakely David Durie Preacher at Gorton John Walker Preacher of the Word Samuel Joanes Min. at Hool Henry Welsh Min. of Gods Word at Chorley Thomas Crompton Min. at Astley Peter Bradshaw Min. at Cockey Isaac Ambrose pastor of Preston James Bradshaw pastor of the Church at Wigan John Fogge pastor of Liverpool Richard Maudsley pastor

THE PAPER Called the AGREEMENT of the PEOPLE taken into CONSIDERATION AND The Lawfulness of Subscription to it Examined and Resolved in the Negative by the Ministers of Christ in the PROVINCE of LANCASTER Published by them especially for the satisfaction of the Conscience and guiding of the practise of our entirely honored and beloved the People of our several Churches committed to our Charge and for the general good of this Church Nation LONDON Printed for LUKE FAWNE and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Parrot in Pauls Church-yard 1649. The paper called the Agreement of the People taken into Consideration and the lawfulness of Subscription to it examined and resolved in the negative by the Ministers of Christ in the Province of LANCASTER THis Agreement being drawn up in the name of the People of England and by the Title of the Book being tendered to the Consideration of the People as also by a Declaration bearing the name of his Excellency THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX and his general Councel of Officers annexed to it it is said to be tendered to the People of England and the said Declaration desiring that all good people of England Will cordially embrace it and by Subscription declare their Concurrence and accord thereto when it shall be tendered to them as is directed therein And it being of universal Concernment taking in and desposing of all publique Affairs not onely of the Civil State but of Religion We the Ministers of Christ in the Province of Lancaster who have constantly and cordially adhered to the Cause of King and Parliament both in the first and second War and have opposed according to our places and Callings the late Scottish Engagement by which many of us have been Sufferers and having been called thereunto by the Authority of Parliament have not only taken but press'd upon our people both the Vow and Protestation to 5 May 1641. and the Solemn League and Covenant in the latter of which we have bound our selves Art 6. in the Cause therein Covenanted all the days of our lives zealously and constantly to continue against all Opposition and to promote the same according to our power against all Lets and Impediments whatsoever and what we are not able our selves to suppress or overcome to reveal and make known that it may be timely prevented or removed And Art 4. That we shall also with all faithfulness endeavor the discovery of all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or evil Instruments by hindering the Reformation of Religion dividing the King from his People or one of the Kingdoms from another or making any faction or parties amongst the People contrary to this League and Covenant do hold our selves bound our common interest and relations our special vocations and our aforesaid Engagements being considered not only deliberately to weigh and resolve with our selves and one another what to do in reference to this Agreement but publiquely to make known our apprehensions concerning it for the resolution of those that may be in doubt about it and t●●t those that are for it may have our Reasons why we dissent from it and we humbly and dearly entreat our highly honored and beloved Country-men and Brethren of this Kingdom into whose hand this our paper may come as well the Composers and Publishers of the Agreement as those to whom it is directed and intended to be offered for their Subscription more especially the Inhabitants of this County unto whom we stand in a more intimate relation both as living among and having the spiritual Charge respectively of them candidly to take and interpret and conscientiously to perpend this our maturely conceived and setled Judgment This Draught called the Agreement of the People being a Platform of State-Government calculated for this Nation and so more immediately of a Political or Civil Consideration Our undertaking is not to survey or give our Verdict on every thing it holds forth divisively or by distinct Sections no● yee shall we examine any thing in it Politically or by the rule of State-M●●i●s or the Laws of the Realm we remit that work to the learned State-men and Lawyers of the Land * Ashursts Reasons c. and Mr Prynnes Speech But we shall 〈◊〉 it as Christians and Ministers enquiring and determining according to our Talent how it may stand or disagree with the dictates of Conscience regulated by the Word of God And in doing this our method will be 1. To give an account of our Conceptions upon the whole plot or frame taken together 2. To speak distinctly and particularly to the Ninth Section which concerneth Religion whereupon we shall be the rather particular because it is both more proper to our profession and more pressing to our souls For the first The project of this Agreement is to place a power in the People to alter when they will the Government of the Kingdom to abrogate the present and to erect a new form of Policy and to be Lords paramount or transcendental Moderators over those to whom the Government is committed assuming to deliver them their Authority to give them Laws to disanul the Laws they make to consine their Legislative power and to oppose them by force of Arms when they see good and to move them now to exert the said power This may appear by the whole tenor of the Agreement and namely in that it represents the People ordering the present Parliament to dissolve a Pag. 8 partic 1. appointing new Representatives of a new proportion and Constitution both in regard of places and persons electing and of the manner times and other circumstances of Election b Pag 8 partic 2. c. which are to have the supream trust in order to the preservation and government of the whole and their power is to extend without the consent or concurrence of any other person or persons to the erecting and abolishing of Courts of Justice and publique Offices and to the enacting altering repealing and declaring of Laws and the highest and final Judgment concerning all natural or civil things c Pa. 24. part 8 limiting the said Representatives from having power in many things d Pa. 24. partic 8. c. directing and restraining them in matter of Religion e Pa. 26. par 9 and repealing all Laws Ordinances and Statutes contrary to the Liberty in Religion which they provide f Pa. 27 part 4 reserving in themselves or any of them power to resist them by force of Arms in some cases g P. 27. part 10 And that such a fundamental change was in the Intentions of the Compilers is evident by the Declaration following it which saith it contains the best and most hopeful Foundations for the Peace and future well-Government Government of this Nation h Page 30. and in it they disclaim to middle in any thing save the Fundamental setling of that power to wit the Law-giving or Judicial power over the

men professe that they know God jet in their works they deny him using the name of God and Religion as Conjurers in t heir Incantations to perpetrate those things are most contrary unto God and destructive unto Religion for as the Devill never doth more hurt then when he appeares in the likenesse of an Angel of light so are men never so mischievous as when they drive on wicked designes under the shew of Godlinesse Englands former sins which caused this Gods just dereliction the abandoning them up unto greater were their exceeding luxury in turning the grace of God temporal favours into wantonnes the long continuance of their peace the increase of their Trade riches and plenty begot in them a generall insolency and pride so that when they Waxed fat like Jesurun they kicked against God in the Authority and regard due unto his principall Officers the Prince and the Priest Hence the people of England in their generality became self-willed heady high-minded and incorrigible they slandered the footsteps of Gods Anointed smote him-with the tongue contended with Gods Priests and usurped that sacred Jurisdiction which God had delegated unto them as those Conspirators did Ye take too much upon you ye Sonnes of Levi since all the people of the Lord are holy under pretence of then Ambition of the Clergy and being like Elihu's now bottels ready to burst with that liquor or flatuous and superficiall knowledge instilled into them by the giddy preachments and undigested swelling and tedious prayers of their Lecturers who reduced all Religion unto lip-worship and canting Scriptures Hence came it to passe that contemning the old paths the truth of the reformation in the Protestant Religion they contended unto bloud to corrupt by their phanatick Alterations the pure Doctrine Evangelical discipline established in the Church of England to effect which with the more ease they adventure upon sacriledge to carry on that they must pull down Episcopacy the fence of the Church and here the King as a nursing Father interposing they tender Him unable by encroaching upon his Prerogatives quarrelling him seize upon his Strengths Arme fight against him Imprison and then Murther Him which last Act of Rebellion though the greatest part of the first Engagers may be thought never to have intended yet they may see the first violation of their Obedience due unto His Majesty punished by a guilt thus farre of his Innocent bloud that that power which they raised spilt it So dangerous it is to vary from a Christian Principle or to doe evill that good may come of it God onely having power to direct limit and determine any evill action so that looke over the pedigree of Englands sinnes through the severall descents thereof and you will find it thus peace begot wealth that plenty that pride that vanity that curiosity that contention that hate of the Clergy that sacriledge that the downfall of Bishops that the contempt of the KING that Warre that Imprisonment and that the murther of the King a murther the most horrid murther that ever the Sun saw for Subjects to take away their KING's life without the prescription of a single example or a law nay even against all lawes divine and humance to Trie him after the forme of a Judiciary proceeding this is to entitle God unto the greatest sinne to establish iniquity by a Law and to make God such as themselves Thus the Jewes dealt with our Saviour Ioh. 19.7 We have a Law and by that Law he ought to die because he made himself the Son of God although there was no such Law but a new-made Law a Junto-law Straffords law Canterburies law the KING's law consequent Lawes Lawes without names or cognizance made because He was KING Neither doth their Power any more prove the equity of this fact the great scandall of the Christian name and height of Anabaptistical fury then the Devils power which is from God doth justifie his malice which is from himself They have now indeed made King Charles a Glorious King prov'd him glorious in his Personall virtues glorious in his divine Grace but most Glorious in the Christian Constancy of his Glorious sufferings for Gods Cause the true Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of the three Kingdomes thus hath God extorted a truth from them for this spake they not of themselves but God forceing their testimony they prophecyed As we have seen His Majesties sufferings and their causes our sins so let us reflect upon their punishment as the Springs from which our sorrowes should arise l'it Const l. 4. c. 29. The exceeding avarice and hypocrisie two noted Court sinnes with which the greatest Christian Prince Constantine was abused of the State-Grandees the deep pits wherein they laid the fatall snares into which pious King CHARLES fell will be visibly punished for God will not be mocked The pride vanity sacriledge rebellion and the cruell murther of His Majesty will have particular judgements levell'd against these sinnes every mans sinne even of those who have fought for His Majesty who have yet fought against him by their sinnes hath given force unto this great stroked and wound given unto these Kingdomes in His Majesties death and therefore ought every man to proportion his sorrow unto his sinnes As King Josiah from Judah so the strong Barricadoe King Charles is taken away betwixt Gods judgements and this Kingdome the great and wide Inlet of all misery is made by his death could our sorrows answer them like a Torrent it would over flow all the banks of reason and grow too big to be carried away by the chanels of our senses behold every spring of Jeremiah and Judahs sorrow open to send forth these flowing streames of affliction upon us and also arise from the same head The breath of our Nostrils the Anointed of the Lord was taken in their pice of whom we said Vnder his shadow we shall live among the Heathen Those heavie judgements which the Prophet Jeremiah foresaw impending and after came to passe by King Josiahs death are in agreat part by King Charles his death Lam. 1.10 2.7 already come upon us Gods house his beautifull house is laid maste the Heathen have entred into the Sanctuary they have made a noise in the house of the Lord as in the day of a solemus Feast So that they who in the beginning pretended God Religion the Church their Cause have dealt with us as that Faction among the Jewes who called themselves The Zealous in the Warre with Titus did under pretense of defending Religion Joseph Bell. Jud.l. 2. c. 12. and the Law they possessed themselves of the Temple yet were themselves the first who put fire with their owne hands into the holy places How hath the avarice and carnall interests of the Teachers of these times corrupted the purity of our Religion Lam. 2.14 as Judahs so Englands onely Prophets have seen vaine and foolish things for her and they have