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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

strongest arguments to perswade the world to believe in Christ John 17.21 Is it not the chief desire of the holy Apostles that we should all speak the same things and that their should be no divisions amongst us c. 1 Cor. 1.10 Phil. 2.1 2 3 c. Is not unity the happiness of heaven Is it not the happinesse of a City to be at unity within it self Is it not a good and pleasant thing for brethren to dwell together in unity how comes it then to passe that this part of the Covenant is so much forgotten The Lord mind you of it this day And the Lord make this great and famous City a City of holiness and a City at unity within it self For if unity be destroyed purity wil quickly also be destroyd The Church of God is una as well as sancta It is but one church as well as it is a holy church And Jesus Christ gave some to be Apostles c. till we all come to the unity of the faith The goyernment of Christ is appointed for the keeping of his Church in unity as well as purity Those things which God hath joined together let no man put asunder That government which doth not promote unity as well as purity is not the government of Christ Oh the misery of that Kingdome where Church-divisions are nourished and fomented A kingdome or a church divided against it self cannot stand Would it not be a sad thing to see twelve in a family one of them a Presbyterian another an Independent another a Brownist another an Antinomian another an Anabaptist another a Familist another for the Prelatical government another a Seeker another a Papist and the tenth it may be an Atheist the eleventh a Iew the twelth a Turk The Lord in his due time heal our divisions and make you his choice instruments according to your places that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the three Kingdomes Q. But some will say How shall I do to get up my heart to this high pitch that I may be a Covenant-keeper I will propound these three helps 1. Labour to be always mindful of your Covenant according to that text 1 Chron. 15.16 God is always mindful of his Covenant It was the great sin of the people of Israel that they were unmindful of the Covenant Neh. 9.17 They first forgat the Covenant and afterwards did quickly forsake it He that forgets the Covenant must needs be a Covenant-breaker Let us ●herefore remember it and carry it about us as quotidianum argumentum and quotidianum munimentum First let us make a Covenant a daily argument aga●nst all sin and iniquity and when we are tempted to any sin let us say I have sworn to forsake my old iniquities and if I commit this sin I am not only a Commandment-breaker but an Oath-breaker I am perjur'd I have sworn to reform my fami●y and therefore I will not suffer a wicked person to tarry in my family I have sworn against neutrality and indifferency and therefore I will be zealous in Gods cause c. Secondly let us make this Covenant a daily muniment armour of defence to beat back all the fiery darts of the divel When any one tempts thee to promise of preferment to do contrary to thy Covenant or by threatning to ruine thee for the hearty pursuing of thy Covenant here is a ready answer I am sworn to do what I do and if I do otherwise I am a perjur'd wretch This is a wall of brass to resist any dart that shall be shot against thee for well doing according to thy Covenant Famous is the story of Hannibal which he told to King Antiochus when he required aid of him against the Romans When I was nine years old said he my Father carried me to the Altur and made me take an Oath to be an irreconcileable foe to the Romans In pursuance of this Oath I have waged war against them 36 years To keep this Oath I have left my countrey and am come to seek aid at your hands which if you deny I will travell all over the world to find out some enemies to the Roman state Odi odioque sum Romanis If an Oath did so mightily operate in Hannibal let the Oath you are to take this day work as powerful upon you and make your Oath an argument to oppose personal sins and family sins and to oppose Heresie Schisme and all profanenesse and to endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdomes to the nearest conjunction and uniformity c. And let this Oath be armour of proof against all temptations to the contrary And know this one thing that if the Covenant be not a daily argument and muniment against sin it will be●ome upon your breaking of it quotidianum testimonium aeternum opprobrium A daily witnesse against you as the book of the law was Deut. 31.26 and an everlasting shame reproach unto you yours 2. Let us have high thoughts of the Covenant Actions and affections follow our apprehensions If thy judgement be beleapred with a corrupt opinion about the Covenant thy affections and actions will quickly be beleapred also And therefore you ought to endeavour according to your places that nothing be spoken or written that may tend to the prejudice of the covenant 3. You must take heed of the cursed sinne of self-love which is placed in the fore-front as the cause of all the Catalogue of sins here named because men ar●●e●s of themselves therefore they are covetous c. and therefore they are covenant-breakers A self-seeker cannot be a covenant-breaker this is a sin that you must hate as the very gates of hell And this is the second sin that I promised in the beginning of my Sermon to speak on but the time and your other occasions will not permit There is a natural self-love and a divine self-love and a sinful self-love This sinful self-love is when we make our selves the last end of all our actions when we so love our selves as to love no man but our selves according to the Proverb Every man for himself c. when we pretend God and his glory and the common good but intend our selves and our own private gain and interest when we serve God upon politique designes Of this sinful self-love the Apostle speaks Phil. 2.21 For all seek their own and not the things of Jesus Christ And if we had a window to look into the hearts of most people we should find their hearts made up all of this Idolatrous self-love All their designes are for to promote themselves They monopolize and ingrosse all to themselves as if made for themselves Where his sinful self-love dwels there dwels no love to God no love to thy brother no love to Church nor State This sinful self-love is the Caterpillar that destroyeth Church Commonwealth It is from this sinful self-love that the publique affairs drive on so heavily and that Church-government is not setled that our Covenant is so much neglected Of this sin I cannot now speak but when God shall offer opportunity I shall endeavour to uncase i●●or you In the mean time the Lord give you grace to hate it as hell it self F●●●●