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A96902	The Solemne League and Covenant of three kingdomes, cleared to the conscience of every man, who is not willingly blinde, or wilfully obstinate. The antiquity of the Covenant on the Scots-side; the seasonablenesse of it on the English side; the admirable wisedome of God, in stirring-up the spirits of men on all sides, at such a time as this; all this with other things mightily conducing to, and promoting of the militia of kingdomes, and the posturing every person there, is referred to a place, where it may take up more room. The clearnese for the matter of this Covenant; the solemnity for the manner of it, is the subject of these few leaves, and yet to be made more clear to them thaT have a mind to understand. By E.W. Imprimatur Edm: Calamy, the morrow after wee lifted up our hands, and subscribed our names to this Covenant, Octob. 2. 1643.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing W3505; Thomason E71_13; ESTC R14305	22,799	20

Though I suspect my understanding in higher matters yet I am Confident here That this Declares the Heart of the Lord to His Poor Creatures and the very scope of this Divinitie Now see how the Preacher turned head upon his Text and his tayl to Heaven before a great presence uttering a notorious Heresie as all Men will call it except Archbishops and Bishops and their Curates Thus he Continued his Speech I will give the summe of it See the Indulgence of a God! And a large allowance from Heaven The Lord of Heaven and Earth will suffer His Sacrifice to give place while Masters and their Servants shall recreate themselves according as the Declaration for sports condemned to the fire by the hand of the Hang man gives them leave And Blessed be God That the Fathers and Lords of the Church and Tyrants over the sam● have been as open handed in tendering Mercy to Poor Creatures giving an Advouson to Riot on The Lords day and Causing it to be Read on that day and in that Place where they are to be the Mouth of God as their great Lord and Master is O Monstrous Stay a little This was Preached to their Lordships ear and Commanded to be Published by their Authoritie the highest in Heaven or Earth not onely Asserted to be by Divine Right but stablished by an Oath which upon true search will be found to be the most Daring Act and Device that ever was thought upon since the Divell first put it into the thoughts of the heart To be like God By their Authoritie who being above all that is Called God set their Right-foot upon the Church and their Left foot on the Common wealth wherein the Potters and their Wives are great sharers I tell them of it because if any thing in the World will make them sensible that will and swore these should rise no more By their Authoritie Archbishops and Bishops else they should have hindered it this Sermon was Printed Containing such abhominable Doctrines which with other the like has Caused more then a Schisme in the Church and been an an-let to that which follows Prophanenesse which like a mighty stood * Mr. Crook a Summersetshire Minister was the fore-man to promote that cursed liberty for sports on the Lords Day he has now made himself vile before all the people Came-in upon us in the Country most impetuously and the Potters with their Wives whom we should tender as Brothers and Sisters were Carryed away with the stream and how many drowned in that Devouring flood I cannot tell I Confesse my Spirit is stirred now for my Bretheren whom I should so love and to stirre-up their Spirits also I will enter into a Curse before I Proceed I conceive I have very good Warrant so to do Let my Tongue cleave to the Roof of my Mouth and that little cunning God in His good Pleasure has given my right hand let is be quite forgotten if I do not remember what Archbishops Bishops and their Curates have done Yea Let my Arm part from my Shoulder My hand from my Arm if I do not endeavour my utmost in my Place to extirpate and root them out and to throw their I may not call them Books after them And truely I thought to take this way To Petition the Assembly of Ministers That they would sentence these unclean and poysonous to the fire to be consumed there But I considered That the Assembly of Ministers as the Parliament The most Glorious that ever was seen in the world have their hearts intent upon these matters therefore I did forbear 2. I considered my self with the Potters and their Wives the Poor of the City whom God is not pleased for I will never say it is at the pleasure of Man and I hope that consideration will make me more patient of Winter cold so long as God is not pleased To supply with Coal and therefore is Wood a dear commodity We have not sufficient for our selves and that purpose too for indeed we want and that purpose requires plenty If I might expresse it so I would say Lebanon is Isa 40. 16. not suffici●nt to burn Whom Archbishops and Bishops those that refuse to Covenant with God and His people I had almost said for their Works deserve to be burnt else I le burn for them And if their Works be of such deserving so meritorious much more the Workmen Men of great Merit and deserving that way But truely I mean their Works as full of Superstitions Heresies and Prophanenesses as a viper is full of poyson But I said truely our Wood is not sufficient for that purpose and to serve our own turns too though yet if all were of my minde we would not make spare of Faggots for that Work though we chillid the more But I hope we may keep our Wood yet the Work may be done as well for the present tell Coal come-in That way we go and have sworn to take will do the businesse very well We will not ask what way because we are sworn Men and our Vows are upon us To do our utmost endeavour To extirpate Pluck up by the Roots the Hierarchichall Government and then we will do well enough with the rest If the Roots of the Oak be grubbed-up the Bulky Body must fall the Shreds Arms Boughes and out-Leaves must wither presently So if Archbishops and Bishops be thrown down All that which come-in grew-up and spred forth with them must down also All Superstitions Heresies and Pr●phanenesses And we have lifted-up the hand and subscribed our Names That out these shall even all that is contrary to sound Doctrine and the Power of Godlynesse That was well put-in the Finger of God put it there All that is contrary to sound Doctrine and the Power of Godlynesse All Archbishops and Bishops with all their Etceteraes have been so so contrary as Hell to Heaven The evill spirits to the good so contrary Then out they shall we swear they shall we will all with one (f) Zep. 3. 9. Consent in English Shoulder joyn hand to hand and shoulder to shoulder at this dead lift and out they shall be cast Left we partake of other mens sins and then of their Plagues too and that The Lord may be one and His Name one in the three Kingdoms There can be no doubt there And this for the Religious Part of the Covenant The Civill follows III. And that concerns the Kingdoms Birthright the Rights and Liberties of Parliament and then of the Subject Mine and Thine for we put altogether And God forbid we should not every Man lift-up his hand to maintain these for therein he maintains his own Rights and Liberties too and the Liberties of the Kingdoms Then I hope we will Maintain the Parliament which maintains all these but I go on The Lord forbid it me saith Naboth That I should give the Inheritance 1 King 21. 3 of my Fathers unto thee Give it he had but

sold it Ahah would give the worth of it in money Ay but Naboth will not give nor sell away the Inheritance of his Father his Birth-right A notable example he would not part with his Birth-right All the Reason then in the world we should lift up our hand touching this matter as we have Protested and Covenanted twice heretofore * See Covenant asserted p. 5. touching our bounden duty to the Parliament 2. And to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person Object Defend His Person Defenders indeed These rise up against His Sacred Person bear Arms against His Power and Authoritie Answ I did not undertake at first to make Answer to this man an obstinate fellow having his Conscience seared he has Answer after Answer and Reason upon Reason to make his folly depart but words are lost in a Fools Ear Nay beat him as Wheat in a Morter it will not doe I confesse when I meet with this unreasonable man I depart from my self for I lose my patience I think verily this fellow and other like him are the Beasts that Paul fought with at Ephesus I will not contend now but I will give him a shorter word then M●ney which is Italian a Plain Lye in Jnglish for he is in earnest and so am I too I will reprove this Cretian sharply and so let him go He is a Lyar a as he shall hear presenly for he findes himself ra●ked amongst his fellows We bear Arms against the most bloody Villains Monstrous Rebels that ever were upon the face of the Earth One of that Company a very young Procter in their Court tells us before he was aware They are all Papists A notorious abuse against the Popes Holinesse to Father such a Regiment of upon his Fatherhood Papa the Pope Hear what they are as one sets-them-out very well to the view of all the World They are a Colluvies a heap a gathering together of the Scum and Drosse and Garbage of three Kingdoms and more a most accursed Confederacie made up of Gebal and Ammon and Amalek the Philistines with the Inhabitants of Tyre of Jesuites Papists and Atheists of Stigmaticall and Infamous Persons in all Lands Against these we bear Arms who have done as the Bishops before them set their foot c. as before and their mouth against Heaven Blasphemed the Holy One and His holy ones made all the Laws of Heaven and Earth void trampled the Word of Truth under foot and swear God Damne them the Lord Christ shall R●igne no more We have lifted up our hands against these Monsters this Viperous generation That we will destroy them from off the Earth and pluck his Majesties Sacred Person from amidst these cursed Hell-Hounds We are resolved so to do by all lawfull meanes The Person of the King a Sacred Person Anointed with oyl But his Soul the Person indeed we have lifted-up the hand That we will Pluck it according to the Power in our hands as a Brand out of the fire for his Soul dwels amongst Scorpions those that are set on fire He is amongst Lyons as David (g) Psal 7 4 complained so grievous it was to him It was his hearts grief that his Condition was such to be amongst Scorpions The King is Content to be where he is though in the same danger that David was We do Vow to pluck him thence to pray * That is the manner pray ●or his prese●●a●ion who se●ks their destin●tion 1 Cor. 4 12 13. incessantly for him as they do that can pray and so they pluck at him that is the violence they use and need there is of such a violence We lift up our hands to an hard work an hard work it is to deliver a man whether he will or no But yet the world must bear witnesse with our Consciences of our loyaltie We Vow nothing above strength but to pray and endeavour it to our utmost so we will so long as we have an hand to lift-up a Sword or Spear to put in them And for the Regall Authoritie that will maintain it selfe whether he will or not in the preservation and defence of the true Religion But we will endeavour it as was said that all the world may witnesse too That we have no thoughts or Intentions to diminish his Majesties just Power and Greatnesse IV. And as we swear our selves Faithfull to God and the King to our selves and our Birth-right To maintain the Regall Authoritie set over us so also we doe swear to Discover and make known all Incendiaries Malignants all who are Enemies to all this endeavouring to make all void and their utmost to cut asunder the Staffe of Beautie That the Covenant may break and the Staffe of Bands Z●●h 11. 10. That the Brotherhood may break betwixt Judah and Israel that is the Eye-sore But we have sworn to pursue these vile persons these Sanballats Tobiah's and Geshem's even to death sentenced thereunto by those that have Authoritie in their hands to cut off those Murtherers from the Earth or can give-out that Power unto others to execute the vengeance of the Lord upon them V. By the Providence of our good God and His exceeding kindnesse to His People we that were twain are now made one and as one Stick in Gods Hand Ez. 33. 19. ready to flee upon the Shoulders of the Philistines who were two Centuries agoe as Scorpions each to other flying each at others Faces and eating each others Is 9. 21. Is 11. 13. Arm Manassch Ephraim and Ephraim Manassch Now that the Lord hath Put such a Pri●e into our hands has caused the Envy of Ephraim to depart and made manifest their Adversaries to be the Adversaries of Judah also we doe Vow to set our Hearts to the maintenance of this Brotherhood That it may be kept firm and fast for ever VI. And do these Enemies and Adversaries what they can as they will do to the length of their Chain We Swear it lifting-up our hands to Heaven That we will do our utmost against them those open Adversaries and those more secret but more dangerous who give themselves to a detestable Indifferency or Newtralitie in this case which so much concerneth the Glory of GOD The good of the Kingdoms and Ho●our of the King We are sworn to doe our utmost that those may he Spewed sorth We will Eye them narrowly that make Divisions amongst us would thrust us from our God and withdraw us from our standing in firm Union each with other And we will wish that those were cut off that trouble us and what we cannot do for we work in our Sphear and according to our Capacitie and Power of Working We will Reveal to others who are in Authoritie and Place and will do it cut them off betimes who sow Tares of Discord so infesting and troubling us All which wee shall doe as in the sight of GOD That 's well for then here will be no respect of Persons If a Brother a