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A36441	A phenix, or, The Solemn League and Covenant whereunto is annexed : 1. The form and manner of His Majesties coronation in Scotland, with a sermon then preached on that occasion, by Robert Douglas of Edenburgh, II. A declaration of the Kings Majesty to all his loving subjects of the Kingdoms of Scotland, &c. in the yeare 1650, III. The great danger of covenant-breaking, &c., being the substance of a sermon preached by Edm. Calamy, the 14 of Jan., 1645, before the then Lord Mayor of the city of London, Sir Tho. Adams : together with the shieriffs [sic], aldermen, and Common-Councell of the said city : being the day of their taking the Solemn League and Covenant at Michael Basenshaw, London.	Douglas, Robert, 1594-1674.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. Great danger of covenant-breaking.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)	1662 (1662)	Wing D2034; ESTC R5271	65,771	176

A PHENIX OR The Solemn LEAGUE and COVENANT Whereunto is annexed I. The Form and manner of His Majesties Coronation in Scotland With a Sermon then preached on that occasion by Robert Douglas of Edenburgh II. A Declaration of the Kings Majesty to all His loving Subjects of the Kingdoms of Scotland c. in the Yeare 1650. III. The great Danger of Covenant-breaking c. Being the substance of a Sermon preached by Edm. Calamy the 14. of Jan. 1645. before the then Lord Mayor of the City of London Sir Tho. Adams together with the Shieriffs Aldermen and Common-councell of the said City being the day of their taking the Solemn League and Covenant at Michael Basenshaw London EDINBVRGH Printed in the year of Covenant-breaking To the Reader Reader THou mayst expect some Reasons by way of Preface why these things thus collected are presented to thy consideration the principall part thereof having been the occasion of so much contest and trouble in these Nations and therefore desired by many it should have been buried in its own ashes But for that things of such publique concernment have been acted by the Heads of these Nations and in so solemn a manner in the presence of Almighty God it cannot so soon be forgotten but ought to be weighed and layd to heart with the good or evil consequences that have or shall accrew thereby it is therefore left to thy serious consideration A solemn League and Covenant For Reformation and defence of Religion the Honour and Happines of the King and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland WE the Noblemen Barons Knights Gentlemen Citizens Burgesses Ministers of the Gospel and Commons of all sorts in the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland by the providence of God living under one King and being of one Reformed Religion having before our Eyes the glory of God and the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord Saviour Jesus Christ the Honour and Happiness of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity and the true Publick Liberty Safety peace of the Kingdoms wherein every ones private condition is included calling to mind the treacherous and bloody Plots Conspiracies Attempts Practices of the Enemies of God against the true Religion and Professors thereof in all places especially in these three Kingdoms ever since the Reformation of Religion and how much their Rage Power and Presumption are of late and at this time increased and exercised whereof the deplorable estate of the Church and Kingdom of Ireland the distressed estate of the Church and Kingdom of England and the dangerous estate of the Church Kingdom of Scotland are present and publick Testimonies We have now at last after other means of Supplication Remonstrance Protestations and Sufferings for the preservation of our Selves and our Religion from utter ruine and destruction according to the commendable practice of these Kingdoms in former times and the example of Gods people in other Nations after mature deliberation resolved and determined to enter into a Mutuall and Solemn League and Covenant wherein we all subscribe and each one of us for himself with our hands lifted up to the most high God do swear 1. THat we shall sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God endeavour in our severall places and callings the preservation of the reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the example of the best Reformed Churches And shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in religion confession of faith form of Church-government Directory for worship and catechising That we and our posterity after us may as brethren live in faith and love and the Lord may delight to dwell in the midst of us 2. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons endeavor the extirpation of popery prelacy that is Church-government by Archbishops Bishops their Chancellors and Commissaries Deans Deans and Chapters Archdeacons and all other Ecclesiasticall Officers depending on that Hierarchy superstition heresie schism prophanness and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of godliness lest we partake in other mens sins and therein be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the three Kingdoms 3. We shall with the same sincerity reality and constancy in our severall vocations endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the rights and priviledges of the parliaments and the Liberties of the kingdomes and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and Authority in the Preservation and Defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdomes that the World may bear witnesse with our Consciences of our Loyalty and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His Majesties just Power and Greatnesse 4. We shall also with all Faithfulnesse endeavour 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 three Kingdomes from another or making any faction or parties among the People contrary to this League and Covenant that they may be brought to publick Tryal and receive condign Punishment as the degree of their Offences shall require or deserve or the Supream Judicatories of both Kingdomes respectively or others having power from them for that effect shall judge convenient 5. And whereas the Happinesse of a blessed Peace between these Kingdomes denied in former times to our Progenitors is by the good Providence of God granted unto us and hath been lately concluded and setled by both the Parliaments we shall each one of us according to our place and interest endeavour that they may remain conjoyned in a firm Peace and Union to all Posterity and that Justice may be done upon the wilfull opposers thereof in manner expressed in the precedent Articles 6. We shall also according to our places and callings in this common cause of Religion Liberty and Peace of the Kingdomes assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing thereof and shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terrour to be divided and withdrawn from this blessed Union and Conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary part or to give our selves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause which so much concerneth the glory of God the good of the Kingdomes and the honour of the King but shall all the dayes of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to our power against all lets and impediments whatsoever and what we are not able our selves to suppresse or overcome we shall reveal and make known that it may be timely prevented or removed All

King but Kingly Government 4. There is a fourth who professe they acknowledge a King but dispise him in their heart saying Shall this man save us I wish all had Davids tendernesse whose heart smote him when he did but cut off the lap of Sauls garment that we may be far from cutting off a lap of that just power and greatnesse which God hath allowed to the King and we have bound our selves by Covenant not to diminish I have gone through the three particulars contained in ver 12. I come to the other two in v. 17. which appertain also to this said work for our King is not only to be crowned but to renew a covenant with God and his people and to make a covenant with the people Answerable hereto there is a twofold covenant in the words one between God and the King and the people God being the one party the King and the people the other Another between the King and the people the King being the one party the people the other The covenant with God is the fourth particular propounded to be spoken of The sum of the covenant ye may find 2 King 23.3 in Josiah his renewing the covenant To walk after the Lord keep his commandments and testimonies with all thy heart and to perform the words of the covenant The renewing of the covenant was after a great defection from God and the setting up of false worship The King and the people of God bound themselves before the Lord to set up true worship and to abolish the false Scotland hath a preference in this before other Nations In time of defection they have renewed a covenant with God to reform all And because the King after a great defection in that family is to renew the covenant I shall mention some particulars from the League and Covenant 1. We are bound to maintain the true Reformed Religion in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government established in this kingdome and to endeavour the Reformation of Religion in the other two kingdoms according to the word of God and the best reformed Kirks By this Article the King is obliged not onely to maintain Religion as it is established in Scotland but also to endeavour the reformation of Religion in his other kingdoms The King should consider well when it shall please God to restore him to his Government there that he is bound to endeavour the establishment of the work of Reformation there as wel as to maintain it here According to the second article the King is bound without respect of persons to extirpate Popery Prelacy Superstition Heresie Scheism Prophanesse and whatsoever shall be found contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of godlinesse and therefore Popery is not to be suffred in his Royall family nor within his Dominions Prelacy once pluck up by the root is not to be permitted to take root again all Heresie and Error whatsoever must be opposed by him to the utmost of his power and by the covenant the K. must be farre from tolleration of any false Religion within his Dominions 3. As the people are bound to maintain the Kings person and authority in the maintenance of the true Religion and liberties of the kingdom So the King is bound with them to maintain the rights and priviledges of the Parliament and liberties of the subjects according to the third article 4. We are bound to discover and to bring unto condign punishment all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or evil instruments in hindring the reformation of Religion dividing the king from the people or one of the kingdoms from another or making any faction or parties amongst them hereby the king is bound to have an eye upon such and neither allow them nor comply with them but to concur according to his power to have them censured and punished as is expressed in the fourth article I shall sum up all this That a K. entring in covenant with God should doe as the kings did of old when they entred into covenant they and their people went on in the work of Reformation as appears there vers 8. And all the people of the Lord went to the house of Baal and brake it down c. And godly Josiah when he entred in covenant made a thorow reformation There is a fourfold reformation in Scripture and contained in the League and Covenant 1. A personal Reformation 2. A Family reformation 3. A reformation of Judicatories 4. A reformation of the whole Land Kings have had their hand in all the Four and therefore I recommend them to our King 1. A personal Reformation A King should reform his own life that he may be a pattern of godlinesse to others and to this he is tied by the Covenants The godly reformers of Judah were pious and religious men A King should not follow Machiavell his counsel who requireth not that a Prince should be truly religious but saith that a shadow of it and external simulation are sufficient A divellish counsel and it is just with God to bring a King to the shadow of a Kingdom who hath but the shadow of Religion We know that dissembling Kings have been punished of God and let our King know that no King but a religious king can please God David is highly commended for godlinesse Hezekiah a man eminent for piety Josiah a young king commended for the tendernesse of his heart when he heard the law of the Lord read he was much troubled before the Lord when he heard the judgements threatned against his Fathers house and his people it is earnestly wished that our Kings heart may be tender and be truly humbled before the Lord for the sins of his Fathers house and of the land and for the many evils that are upon that Family and upon that Kingdome 2. A Family Reformation The King should reform his Family after the example of godly kings Asa when he entred in covenant spared not his Mothers Idolatry The house of our king hath been much defiled by Idolatry The king is now in covenant and to renew the covenant let the Royal Family be reformed and that it may be a religious Family wherein God will have pleasure Let it be purged not only of Idolatry but of prophanity and loosness which hath abounded in it Much hath been spoken of this matter but little hath been done in it Let the king and others who have charge in that family think it lieth upon them as a duty to purge it And if you would have a Famiy well purged and constitute take David for a pattern in the purgation and constitution of his Psalm 10. The froward heart wicked persons and slanderers he will have far from him but his eyes are upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with him Ye may extent this Reformation to the Court A prophane Court is dangerous for a king it hath been observed as a provoking sin in England which hath drawn down

receipt of their Princely Authority make their faithful promise in the presence of the eternal God That enduring the whole course of their lives they shall serve the same Eternal God to the uttermost of their power according as he hath required in his most holy Word revealed and contained in the New and Old Testaments And according to the same Word shall maintain the true Religion of Christ Jesus the preaching of his Holy Word and due and right Ministration of the Sacraments now received and preached within this Realm And shall abolish and gainstand all false religions contrary to the same and shall rule the people committed to their charge according to the will and command of God revealed in his foresaid Word and according to the Loveable Lawes and Constitutions received in this Realm no wayes repugnant to the said Word of the Eternall God And shall procure to the uttermost of their power to the Kirk of God and whole Christian people true and perfect peace in time coming The right and ●ents with all just priviledges of the Crown of Scotland to preserve and keep inviolated Neither shall they transfer nor alienate the same They shall forbid and represse in all Estates and degrees reaf oppression and all kind of wrong In all judgements they shall command and procure that justice and equity be kept to all creatures without exception as the Lord and Father of Mercies be mercifull unto them and out of their Lands and Empire they shall be careful to root out all Hereticks and enemies to the true worship of God that shall be convict by the true Kirk of God of the aforesaid crimes and that they shall faithfully affirm the things above written by their Solemn Oath The Minister tendered the Oath unto the King who kneeling and holding up his right hand swore in these words By the Eternall and Almighty God who liveth and reigneth for ever I shall observe and keep all that is contained in this Oath This done the Kings Majesty sitteth down in his Chair and reposeth himself a little Then the King ariseth from his chair and is dis-robed by the Lord great Chamberlain of the Princely robe wherewith he entred the Kirk and is invested by the said Chamberlain in his Royal Robes Thereafter the King being brought to the Chair on the North side of the Kirk s●pported as formerly the Sword was brought by Sir William Cockburn of Langtown Gentleman ush●r from the table and delivered to the Lyon King of Armes who giveth it to the Lord great Constable who putteth the same in the Kings hand saying Sir Receive this Kingly Sword for the defence of the Faith of Christ and protection of his Kirk and of the true Religion as it is presently professed within this Kingdome and according to the National Covenant and League and Covenant and for executing Equity and Justice and for punishment of all iniquity and injustice This done the great Constable receiveth the Sword from the King and girdeth the same about his side Thereafter the King sitteth down in his Chair and then the Spurs were put on him by the Earl Marshal Thereafter Archibald Marquis of Argyle having taken the Crown in his hands the Minister prayed to this purpose That the Lord would purge the Crown from the sins and transgressions of them that did reign before him That it might be a pure Crown That God would settle the Crown upon the kings head and since men that set it on were not able to settle it that the Lord would put it on and preserve it And then the said Marquis put the Crown on the Kings head Which done Lyon King of Armes the great Constable standing b●●im causeth an Herauld to call the whole Noble men one by one according to their ranks who coming before the King kneeling and with their hand touching the Crown on the Kings head swore these words By the Eternal and Almighty God who liveth and reigneth for ever I shall support thee to my utmost And when they had done then all the Nobility held up their hands and sware to be loyal and true subjects and true to the Crown The Earl Marshal with the Lyon going to the four corners of the Stage the Lyon proclaimeth the Obligatory Oath of the people And the people holding up their hands all the time did swear By the Eternal and Almighty God who liveth and reigneth for ever we become your liege men and Truth and Faith shall bear unto you and live and dye with you against all manner of folks whatsoever in your service according to the National Covenant and solemne League and Covenant Then did the Earles and Vicounts put on their Crowns and the Lyon likewise put on his Then did the Lord Chamberlain loose the Sword wherewith the King was girded and drew it and delivered it drawn into the Kings hands and the King put it into the hands of the great Constable to carry it naked before him Then John Earl of Crawford and Lindesay took the Scepter and put it in the Kings right hand saying Sir Receive this Scepter the sign of Royal power of the Kingdome that you may govern your self right and defend all the Christian people committed by God to your charge punishing the wicked and protecting the just Then did the King ascend the Stage attended by the Officers of the Crown and Nobility and was installed in the Royal Throne by Archibald Marquis of Argyle saying Stand and hold fast from henceforth the place whereof you are the lawful and righteous heir by a long and lineal succession of your Fathers which is now delivered unto you by authority of Almighty God When the King was set down upon the Throne the Minister spoke to him a word of Exhortation as followeth Sir You are set down upon the throne in a very difficil time I shall therefore put you in mind of a Scriptural expression of a Throne 1 Chron. 29.23 It is said Solomon sate on the Throne of the Lord. Sir you are a King and a King in Covenant with the Lord if You would have the Lord to own you to be his king and his Torone to be your Throne I desire you may have some thoughts of this expression 1 It is the Lords Throne Remember you have a King above you the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who commandeth Thrones He setteth kings and Thrones and dethroneth them at his pleasure Therefore take a word of advice be thankful to him who hath brought you through many wanderings to set you on this Throne kisse the son lest he be angry and learn to serve him with fear who is terrible to the kings of the earth 2. Your throne is the Lords throne and your people the Lords people Let not your heart be lifted up above your brethren Deut. 17.20 They are your brethren not only flesh of your flesh but brethren by Covenant with God let your Government be refreshing unto them as the rain on the mowen grasse

King may learn it out of the book of God For this cause Joshua is commanded Josh 1.8 That the book of the law shall not depart out of his mouth and he is commanded to do according to that is written therein He should not only do himself that which is written in it but do and govern his people according to that is written in it King David knew this use of the Testimony who said Psal 119.24 Thy Testimonies are my delight and my Counsellors The best counsels that ever a King getteth are in the book of God yea the testimonies are the best and surest Counsellors because although Kings Counsellors be never so wise and trusty yet they use not to be so free with a King as they ought but the Scripture will tell Kings very freely both their sin and their duty 3. For preservation and custody the King is Custos utriusque tabulae the keeper of both tables Not that he should take upon him to dispense the Word of God or to dispence with it But that he should preserve the Word of God and the true Religion according to the Word of God pure intire and uncorrupted within his dominions and transmit them to posterity and also be carefull to see his subjects observe both tables and to punish transgressors of the same III. The third thing in this solemnity is the anointing of the King The anointing of Kings was not absolutely necessary under the Old Testament for we read not that all the Kings of Judah and Isral were anointed The Hebrews observe that anointing of Kings was used in three cases 1. When the first of a Family was made King as Saul David 2. When there was a question for the Crown as in the case of Solomon and Adoniah 3. When there was an interruption of the lawfull succession by usurpation as in the case of Joah there is an interruption by the usurpation of Athaliah therefore he is anointed If this observation hold as it is probable then it was not absolutely necessary under the Old Testament and therefore far lesse under the New Because it may be said That in our case there is an interruption by usurpation let it be considered That the Anointing under the Old Testament was Typicall although all Kings were not Types of Christ yet the Anointing of Kings Priests and Prophets was typical of Christ and his Offices but Christ being now come all these Ceremonies cease And therefore the Anointing of Kings ought not to be used in the New Testament If it be said Anointing of Kings hath been in use among Christians not only Papists but Protestants as in the Kingdome of England and our late King was Anointed with Oyl It may be replyed they who used it under the New Testament took it from the Jews without warrant It was most in use with the Bishops of Rome who to keep Kings and Emperours subject to themselves did swear them to the Pope when they were Anointed and yet the Jewish Priests did never swear Kings to themselves as for England although the Pope was casten off yet the subjection of Kings to Bishops was still retained for they Anointed the King and sware him to the maintenance of their Prelaticall dignity They are here who were witnesses at the Coronation of the late King The Bishops behoved to perform that rite and the King behoved to be sworn to them But now by the blessing of God Popery and Prelacy are removed the Bishops as limbs of Antichrist are put to the door let the Anointing of Kings with oyl go to the door with them and let them never come in again The Anointing with materiall oyle maketh not a King the Anointed of the Lord for he is so without it He is the Anointed of the Lord who by the divine Ordinance and appointment is a King Isa 45.1 God called Cyrus his Anointed yet we read not that he was Anointed with oyl Kings are the Anointed of the Lord because by the Ordinance of the Lord their Authority is sacred and inviolable It is enough for us to have the thing though we want the Ceremony which being laid aside I will give some Observations of the thing 1. A King being the Lords Anointed should be thinking upon a better unction even that spirituall unction wherewith believers are Anointed which you have 1 Joh 2.27 The Anointing ye have received of him abideth in you And 2 Cor. 1 21. He that hath Anointed us is God who hath also sealed us This Anointing is not proper to Kings but common to believers Few Kings are so Anointed A King should strive to be a good Christian and then a good King The Anointing with Grace is better then the Anointing with oyle It is of more worth for a King to be Anointed of the Lord with Grace then to be the greatest Monarch of the world without it 2. This Anointing may put a King in mind of the gifts wherewith Kings should be indued for discharge of the Royal calling For Anointing did signifie the gifts of Office It is said of Saul when he was Anointed King As 1 Sam. 10 9. God gave him another heart And Cap. 11.6 The spirit of God came upon him it is meant of a heart for this calling and a spirit of ability for Government It should be our desire this day that our King may have a spirit for his calling as the spirit of Wisdome Fortitude Justice and other Princely indowments 3. This Anointing may put Subjects in mind of the Sacret due of the Authority of a King He should be respected as the Lords Anointed There are divers sorts of persons that are Enemies to the Authory of Kings As 1. Anabaptists who deny there should be Kings in the New Testament They will have no Kings nor civil Magistrate 2. The late Photinians who speak respectively of Kings and Magistrates but they take away from them their power and the exercise of it in the administration of Justice 3. These who rise against Kings in open Rebellion as Absolom and Sheba who said what have we to do with David the son of Jesse To your Tents O Israel 4. They who do not rebel openly yet they despise a King in their heart like the sons of Beliall 1 Sam. 10. last who said of Saul after he was Anointed King shall this man save us And they despised him and brought him no presents 1. All these meet in our present age 1. Anabaptists who are against the being of Kings are very rife you may find to your great grief a great number of them in that Army that have unjustly invaded the Land who have trampled upon the Authority of Kings 2. There are also of the second sort who are secretly Photinians in this point they allow of Kings in profession but they are against the exercise of their power in the Administration of Justice 3. A third sort in open Rebellion even all that Generation which are risen up not only against the person of the

stones and flew him at the Kings commandment And ver 22. it is said Joash remembred not the kindnesse that Jehojada his Father had done to him but slew his Son Sir Take this example for a warning You are obliged by the Covenant to go on in the work of Reformation it may be some great ones are waiting their time not having opportunity to work for the present till afterward they may make obeysance and perswade you to destroy all that hath been done in the work of God these divers years Beware of it Let no allurement of perswasion prevail with you to fall from that which this day you bind your self to maintain Another example I give you yet in recent memory of your Grandfather King James He fell to be King very young in a time full of difficulties yet there was a godly party in the Land who did put the Crown upon his head And when he came to some years He and and his people entred in a Covenant with God he was much commended by godly and faithful men comparing him to young Josiah standing at the Altar renewing a Covenant with God and he himself did thank God that he was born in a reformed Kirk better reformed then England for they retained many Popish ceremonies yea better reformed then Geneva for they keep some holy days charging his people to be constant and promising himself to continue in that Reformation and to maintain the same Notwithstanding of all this he made a foul defection He remembred not the kindness of them who had held the Crown upon his head yea he persecuted faithful Ministers for opposing that course of defection He never rested till he had undone Presbyterial Government and Kirk Assemblies setting up Bishops and bringing in ceremonies against which he had formerly given large testimonies In a word he laid the foundation whereupon his Son our late King did build much mischief in Religion all the days of his life Sir I lay this example before you the rather because it is so near you that the guiltinesse of the transgression lieth upon the Throne and Family and it is one of the sins for which you have professed humiliation very lately Let it be laid to heart take warning requite not faithful mens kindnesse with persecution yea requite not the Lord so who hath preserved you to this time and is setting a Crown upon your head Requite not the Lord with apostasie and defection from a sworn Covenant but be stedfast in the Covenant as you would give testimony of your true humiliation for the defection of those that went before you I have set these two examples before you as Beacons to warn you to keep off such dangerous courses and shall add one of that godly mans adherence to God The example is of Hezekiah who did that which was right in the sight of the Lord 2 Kings 18.6 6. It is said of him he trusted in the Lord God of Israel and he clave unto the Lord and departed not from following him but kept his Commandments And ver 7. The Lord was with him and he prospered whithersoever he went forth Sir follow this example cleave unto the Lord and depart not from following him and the Lord will be with you and prosper you whithersoever you go To this Lord from whom we expect a blessing on this dayes work be glory and praise for ever Amen Sermon being ended Prayer was made for a blessing upon the Doctrine delivered The King being to renew the Covenants first the National Covenant then the solemn League and Covenant were distinctly read After the reading of these Covenants the Minister prayed for grace to perform the contents of the Covenants and for faithful stedfastness in the Oath of God and then the Ministers and Commissioners of the General Assembly desired to be present standing before the Pulpit he ministed the Oath unto the King who kneeling and lifting up his right hand did swear in the words following I CHARLES King of Great Brittain France and Ireland do assure and declare by solemn Oath in the presence of Almighty God the Searcher of hearts my allowance and approbation of the National Covenant and of the solemn League and Covenant above written and faithfully obliege my self to prosecute the ends thereof in my Station and Calling And that I for my self and Successors shall consent and agree to all Acts of Parliament enjoyning the Nationall Covenant and of the Solemne League and Covenant and fully establish Presbyteriall Government the Directory of Worship Confession of Faith and Catechisms in the Kingdome of Scotland as they are approved by the Generall Assemblies of this Kirk and Parliament of this Kingdome And that I shall give my Royall assent to Acts and Ordinances of Parliament passed or to be passed enjoyning the same in my other Dominions And that I shall observe these in my own practise and Family and shall never make oppositon to any of these or endeavour any change thereof After the King had thus solemnly sworn the Nationall Covenant the League and Covenant and the Kings Oath subjoyned unto both being drawn up into a fair Partchment the King did subscribe the same in presence of all Thereafter the King ascendeth the Stage and sitteth down in the Chair of State Then the Lords great Constable and Marshall went to the four corners of the Stage with the Lyon going before them who spoke to the people these words Sirs I do present unto you the King Charles the rightfull and undoubted Heir of the Crown and Dignity of this Realm this day is by the Parliament of this Kingdome appointed for his Coronation And are you not willing to have him for your King and become Subjects to his Commandments In which action the Kings Majesty stood up showing himself to the people in each corner And the penple expressed their willingnesse by chearful acclamations in these words God save the King Charles the Second Thereafter the Kings Majesty supported by the Constable and Marshall cometh down from the Stage and sitteth down in the Chair where he heard the Sermon The Minister accompanied with the Ministers before mentioned cometh from the Pulpit toward the King and requireth If he was willing to take the Oath appointed to be taken at the Coronation The King answered he was most willing Then the Oath of Coronation as it contained in the eighth Act of the first Parliament of King James being read by the Lyon the Tenour whereof followeth Because that the increase of Vertue and suppressing of Idolatry craveth That the Prince and the people be of one perfect Religion which of Gods mercy is now presently professed within this Realm Therefore it is statuted and ordained by our Soveraign Lord my Lord Regent and three estates of this present Parliament that all Kings Princes and Magistrates whatsoever holding their place which hereafter at any time shall happen to Raign and bear rule over this Realm at the time of their Coronation and