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A26065	Evangelium armatum, A specimen, or short collection of several doctrines and positions destructive to our government, both civil and ecclesiastical preached and vented by the known leaders and abetters of the pretended reformation such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall, and others, &c.	Assheton, William, 1641-1711.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing A4033; ESTC R4907	49,298	71

Now is Christ set upon his throne Pag. 21. * Noble and resolute Commanders go on to fight the battels of the Lord Jesus Christ for so I will not now fear to call them Pag. 21. * All Christendom except the Malignants in England do now see that the question in England is whether Christ or Anti-christ shall be Lord and King Pag. 21. Ten thousand times cursed are they who have provoked Our Soveraign to raise Arms to destroy his Nobles and Commons and Divines and this most honoured City and even all who have been faithful Pag. 28. Mr. Stephen Marshal after Naseby fight in a Thanksgiving Sermon on Psal. 102. 18. ALL the Countries where the Gospel had prevail'd have faithsully stood to God in his cause the rest nurst up under Popery and Superstition both Lords Commons and Gentlemen and whole Commons did endeavour to fight themselves into slavery and labour to des●…roy the Parlament that is themselves and all that is theirs Mr. Marshal in his Sermon on Micah 7. 1 2. 1644. BElieve this cause must prosper though we were all dead our Armies overthrown and even our Palaments dissolved this cause must prevail Mr. Edmund Calamy in his Sermon before the House of Peers June 15. 1643. on Joshua 24. 15. REligion is that which is pretended on all hands The defence of the Protestant Religion this news we hear daily from Oxford and for this purpose there is an Army of Papists to defend Protestant Religion just as the Gun-powder Treason that would have blown up the Parlament for the good of the Catholike Religion Pag. 24. Few Noblemen and Gentlemen appear on the Parlament side not many mighty not many Noble thus it was in Christs time the great men and great Scholars crucified Christ. Pag. 30. The Cause you mannage is the Cause of God the glory of God is embark'd in the same Ship in which this cause is and you may lawfully say as Joshua does Josh. 7. 9. What wilt thou do unto thy great name and Numb 14. 15 16. And as Joshua said to Israel Numb 14. 7. So doth God to you fear not fear not the people of the land for they are bread for us their defence is departed from them and the Lord is with us fear them not Pag. 53. I may say without uncharitableness you have the major part of Gods people on your side Pag. 55. He that dies fighting the Lords battel dies a Martyr Pag. 57. Mr. Thomas Case in his Epistle Dedicatory to the Commons House in Parlament before his Sermon on Ezek. 20. 25. GOd in you hath graciously begun to make good that Evangelical promise Zech. 12. 8. In defending this his English Hierusalem he hath made him that was weak among you as David you have conquer'd the Lyon a●…d the Bear and shall not that uncircumcised Philistine that numerous Beast who hath not ceast to blaspheme the Armies os the Living God become like one of these behold ●… he lies groveling at your feet there wants nothing but cutting off his head They cryed down the S●…bbath as a ridiculous or at least a superfluous Ceremony Pag. XI * thus they make the King glad with their wickedness and he that could bring Jeroboam an argument to justifie his Idolatry he was a well-come man at Court Pag. 12. Mr. Case on Ezra 10. 2 3. Preach'd before the House of Commons SOme have sinn'd seducingly and Jesuites could never have been more desperate I am sure they might have been less guilty they have sinn'd against their light murthered their Principles they have suck'd in with their Mothers milk* spare them not I beseech you though they crouch and cringe and Worship you as much as they have done their high Altars Pag. 15. Ah Brethren I would not have you redeem their lives with your own heads Pag. 16. How the Presence and Preaching of Christ did scorch and blast those Cathedral Priests that unhallowed generation of * Scribes and Pharisees and perfected their Rebellion into that unpardonable sin against the holy Ghost Pag. 33. Mr. Case on Dan. XI 32. 1644. Before the House of commons on a day of Thanksgiving for the Victory given to Sir William Waller against the Army of Sir Ralph Hopton HAd not the Spirit of the Lord wrought to a wonder of wisdom and power we might have sate down long before this made our Wills an●… bequeath'd our poor children every one of them Popery and Slavery for their sorrowful Patrimony Pag. 9. Cursed be he that withholdeth his Sword from blood that spares when God saith strike that suffers those to escape whom God has appointed to destruction Pag. 24. Mr. Case on Isa. 43. 4. In a Thanksgiving for taking Bridgwater and Sherbourn * WHat a sad thing is it my Brethren to see our King in the head of an Army of Bahylonians refusing as it were to be call'd the King of England Scotland Ireland and chusing rather to be call'd the King of Babylon Pag. 18. Prelacy and Prelatical Clergy Priests and Jesuites Ceremonies and Service-Book Star-Chamber and High Commission Court were mighty impediments in the way of Reformation God hath mightily brought them down Pag. 19. * The Father having given to him Vid. Christ all power both in heaven and in earth and the rule and Regiment of this Kingdom he hath committed to Monarchies Aristocracies or Democracies as the several combinations and associations of the People shall between themselves think good to elect and erect God leaves people to their own Liberty in this Case Pag. 26. Mr. Thomas Case Psal. 107. 30 31. in his Thanksgiving Sermon for Surrender of Chester * ALas alas they have put out the eyes of his Majesty and carried him away Captive our King is in Babylon among Idolaters and Murtherers we have no King Mr. Joseph Caryl in his Sermon on Nehe. chap. 9. vers 38. Preach'd at the taking of the Covenant Octob. 6. 1643. THere is much sin in making a Covenant on sinful grounds and there is more sin in keeping it but when the preservation of true Religion and the Vindication of just Liberties meet in the ground-work yea may swear and not repent yea if you swear yea must not repent Pag. 18. Take the Covenant and ye take Babylon The Towers of Babylon shall quake and her seven hills shall move Pag. 21. It is Shiboleth to distinguish Ephramites from Gileadites Pag. 22. When we provoke God to bring evil upon us he stays his hand by considering the Covenant Gen. 9. 15. Now as the remembrance of the Covenant on Gods part stays his hand so the remembrance of the Covenant will be very effectual on our part to stay our hands tongues hearts from sin Pag. 27. Not onely is that Covenant which God hath made with us founded in the blood of Christ but that also which we make with God Pag. 33. Mr. Caryl on Revel XI vers 16 17. before the House of Commons April 23. 1644. OUr war has been proved over and over to

Prince the hurt will be their own and they punish themselves but if it be necessarily to their well-fare it is no injury to him But a King that by war will seek reparations from the body of the People doth put himself into an hostile State and tells them actually that he looks to his own good more than theirs and bids them take him for their Enemy and so defend themselves if they can Pag. 424. XVII Though a Nation wrong their King and so quoad Meritum causa they are on the worser side yet may he not lawfully war against the publick good on that account nor any help him in such a war because propter finem he hath the worser cause Thes. 352. And yet as he tells us pag. 476. we were to believe the Parlaments Declarations and professions which they made that the war which they raised was not against the King either in respect of his Authority or of his Person but onely against the Delinquent Subjects and yet they actually fought against the King in person and we are to believe saith Mr. Baxter pag. 422. that men would kill them whom they fight against Mr. Baxter's Doctrine concerning the Government of England in particular HE denies the government of England to be Monarchical in these words I. The real Soveraignty here amongst was us in King Lords and Commons Pag. 72. II. As to them that argue from the Oath of Supremacy and the title given the King I refer them saith Mr. Baxter to Mr. Lawson's answer to Hobb's Politicks where he sheweth that the Title is often given to the single Person for the honour of the Common-wealth and his encouragement because he hath an eminent interest but will not prove the whole Soveraignty to be in him and the Oath excludeth all others from without not those whose interest is implied as conjunct with his The eminent dignity and interest of the King above others allowed the name of a Monarchy or Kingdom to the Common-wealth though indeed the Soveraignty was mix'd in the hands of the Lords and Commons Pag. 88. III. He calls it a false supposition 1. That the Soveraign power was onely in the King and so that it was an absolute Monarchy 2. That the Parlament had but onely the proposing of Laws and that they were Enacted onely by the Kings Authority upon their request 3. That the power of Arms and of War and Peace was in the King alone And therefore saith he those that argue from these false suppositions conclude that the Parlament being Subjects may not take up Arms without him and that it is Rebellion to resist him and most of this they gather from the Oath of Supremacy and from the Parlaments calling of themselves his Subjects but their grounds saith he are sandy and their superstructure false Pag. 459 460. And therefore Mr. Baxter tells u●… that though the Parlament are Subjects in one capacity yet have they their part in the Soveraignty also in their higher capacity Ibid. And upon this fa●…se and trayterous supposition he endeavours to justisie the late Rebellion and his own more than ordinary activeness in it For IV. Where the Soveraignty saith he is distributed into several hands as the Kings and Parlaments and the King invades the others part they may lawfully defend their own by war and the Subject lawfully assist them yea though the power of the Militia be expresly given to the King unless it be also exprest that it shall not be in the other Thes. 363. The conclusion saith he needs no proof because Soveraignty as such hath the power of Arms and of the Laws themselves The Law that saith the King shall have the Militia supposeth it to be against Enemies and not against the Common-wealth nor them that have part of the Soveraignty with him To resist him here is not to resist power but usurpation and private will in such a case the Parlament is no more to be resisted than he Ibid. V. If the King raise War against such a Parlament upon their Declaration of the dangers of the Common-wealth the people are to take it as raised against the Common-wealth Thes. 358. And in that case saith he the King may not only be resisted but ceaseth to be a King and entreth into a state of War with the people Thes. 368. VI. Again if a Prince that hath not the whole Soveraignty be conquered by a Senate that hath the other part and that in a just defensive War that Senate cannot assume the whole Soveraignty but supposeth that government in specie to remain and therefore another King must be chosen if the former be incapable Thes. 374. as he tells us he is by ceasing to be King in the immediately precedent Thes. VII And yet in the Preface to this Book he tells us that the King withdrawing so he call the murdering of one King and the casting off of another the Lords and Commons ruled alone was not this to change the species of the Government Which in the immediate words before he had affirmed to be in King Lords and Commons which constitution saith he we were sworn and sworn and sworn again to be faithful to and to defend And yet speaking of that Parlament which contrary to their Oaths changed this Government by ruling alone and taking upon them the Supremacy he tells us that they were the best Governours in all the world and such as it is forbidden to Subjects to depose upon pain of damnation VVhat then was he that deposed them one would think Mr. Baxter should have called him a Traytor but he calls h●…m in the same Preface the Lord Prorector adding That he did prudently piously faithfully and to his immortal honour exercise the Government which he left to his Son to whom as Mr. Baxter saith pag. 481. he is bound to submit as set over us by God and to obey for conscience sake and to behave himself as a Loyal Subject towards him because as he saith in the same place a sull and free Parlament had owned him thereby implying That a maimed and manacled House of Commons without King and Lords and notwithstanding the violent expulsion of the secluded Members were a full and free Parlament and consequently that if such a Parlament should have taken Arms against the King he must have sided with them Yea though they had been never so much in fault and though they had been the beginners of the VVar for he tells us in plain and express terms VIII That if he had known the Parlament had been the beginners of the War and in most fault yet the ruine of the Trustees and Representatives and so of all the security of the Nation being a punishment greater than any faults of theirs against the King could deserve from him their faults could not disoblige him meaning himself from defending the Common-wealth Pag. 480. And that he might do this lawfully and with a good Conscience he seems to be so

Cause the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England and surely the publick Faith of Scotland will secure the publick Faith of England I speak now of secondary causes through Gods blessing I am informed by the Commissioners of Scotland that the Nation of Scotland are now tak●…ng the Covenant that we took the last Lords day in this City And you know that a Scotch Covenanter is a terrible thing you know what mighty things they did by their last Covenant you know that the name of a Covenanter the very name of it did do wonders And I am assured by them that there is not one person in the Kingdom of Scotland that is not a Covenanter and there shall not one abide among them that wi●…l not take this Covenant and there shall not one of those 21000 that are to come over in this Cause not one of them shall come that will not take this Covenant but they must take th●…s Covenant before they come O that the consideration of these things might work up your hearts to a high degree of Charity to a superlative degree and that the Lord would make you more active and more liberal in this great Cause For my part I speak it in the name of my self and in the name of these reverend Ministers we will not only speak to perswade you to contribute but every one of us that God hath given any estate to we will all to our utmost power we will not only say ite but venite we will not only speak to you to lend but every one of us as we have already lent so we will lend to our utmost power and bless God that we have it to lend for indeed it is now a time of action and not of speaking only because it is an extraordinary business therefore here is an extraordinary appearance of so many Ministers to encourage you in this Cause that you may see how real the godly Ministery in England is unto this Ca●…se The Gospel it is called a Pearl of price by our Saviour Christ and I hope all you Merchants will part with your goodly pearls to buy this pearl of pr●…ce You Tradesmen the Gospel is called a Treasure hid in the field so our Saviour Christ calls it I hope you will be willing to part with your earthly treasures to preserve this blessed treasure that is hid in the field you have parted with some goodly pearls already I hope you will part with your other goodly pearls There is an excellent Story of one Nonius a Roman Senator that had a pearl that 〈◊〉 did prize above his life and when Anthony the Triumvir one that was then in great power when he sent to Nonius to have the pearl he would not send it him and he told him that if he would banish him he would be willingly banished so he might save his pearl if he would take away his life he would die with his pearl he did not regard his Countrey so he might have his pearl he regarded nothing so he might have his pearl but he would not part with his pearl what-ever he parted withall This pearl it is the Gospel of Jesus Christ that you have professed in this City and I hope you have professed it with power and certainly you have the name of those that have professed the Gospel in the greatest purity of any under heaven This pearl is this Gospel I hope you will part with all willingly and cheerfully rather than part with the Gospel though you go to prison carry the Gospel with you nay though you lose your lives it shall be with the Gospel and for the Gospel I hope so There is one Argument more and then I have done and that is from the inveterate hatred they have at Oxford against the City of London and against you for your good because you have been so well-affected to this Cause Gentlemen I beseech you give me leave that am no Statesman nor acquainted with the affairs of policy yet give me leave to put you in mind of this that surely the plundering Army at Oxford conceive that they shall find a great treasure here in the City though many pretend they have no money Though certainly you have done well and lent much yet the plnndering Army give out that if they get possession of the City they shall find a treasury to be able to pay all they have been at And if ever you should be driven which God forbid to make your peace it would cost you twenty times as much then to procure your peace and such a pe●…ce it may be that would be rather a War than a Peace and a death better than that peace which now you may have for a very little a most happy Peace There is a famous story of Zelimus Emperour of Constantinople that after he had taken AEgypt he found a great deal of tre●…sure there and the Souldiers came to him and asked him what shall we do with the Citizens of AEgypt for we have found a great treasure among them and we have taken their Riches O saith he hang them all up for they are too rich to be made slaves and this was all the thanks they had for the riches they were spoiled os And it may be though some of you that stand Neuters or some of you that are disaffected to the Cause of the Parlament may think that if the Lord for our sins should give up this City unto the Army that is with the King you may think that you shall escape yet be assured that your goods will be Roundheads though you be not your goods will be Gybellins though you be Guelfs as the story is Certainly there will be no distinction in the plundering of your goods between you and others and therefore let me beseech you that as the Lord hath made you instruments to do a great deal of good already for indeed you are the preservers of our Religion and you are the preservers of our Parlament by your liberality and by your former contributions and by your assistance and the Lord hath made you mighty instruments of our good let me beseech you that you would persevere and now we are come to the Sheat Anchor we are now come to the last cast I beseech you you would persevere and hold out and O that my words might add somewhat to help forward this contribution It hath pleased God to make me a setled Minister in this City and I have now been here almost five years in this City and though I had never ●…one any good in my place I should now think it a great fruit of my coming to this City if after five years unprofitableness I might speak somewhat this afternoon that might enlarge your hearts to a greater measure of liberality All I will say is this We Divines say that Perseverance is the onely grace that Crowns a Christian Methushelah lived nine hundred ninety and nine years if he had fallen away from

days by Rome Anti-christian Pag. 8. Have not we of this Kingdom been bought and sold hath it not been attempted yea effected in great measure to bring us as Joseph into Egyptian Slavery were they not English Prelates that conspired to sel●… their Brethren into Romish Slavery Pag. 12. Some of your Brethren have come in and submitted to you Stars of the first Magnitude and may it not be expected the Sun and Moon nill do so too if they do not they may do worse if they do not it will never be worse for you Pag. 20. Mr. Samuel Faircloth on Josh. 7. 25. before divers of the House of Commons MOses fell on his f●…ce as Joshua here and makes God cry out Let me alone will this Cure it no Moses sees for all his prayers Israel will not be cured without a full and total extirpation of all the accursed things and Persons also Pag. 25. * The Lord rent the Kingdom from Saul for sparing one Agag and for w●…nt of thorow extirpation of all the accursed things he lost both than●…s for what he had done and Kingdom also Pag. 27. 'T is not partial Reformation and execution of justice upon some offenders will afford us help except those in Authority extirpate all Achans with Baby lomsh Garments Orders Ceremonies Gestures be rooted out from among us Pag. 28. * To you of the Honourable House Up for the matter belongs to you We even all the Godly Ministers of the Country will be with you Pag. 29. Think of it in your Committees to save them and theirs from trouble by troubl●…ng them as Joshua to wit by a thorow abolishment and extirpation of them Pag. 29. The East wind did not sooner cure Egypt of the Frogs of Nilus than this course would England of all the Achans and Frogs of Tiber There being no vertue wherein men resemble the Lord more lively as in executing of justice and in extirpation of those Achans you will cut off the wicked and procure the felicity of the chosen Pag. 34. Trouble they will bring upon us for time to come if they be not now cut off all may see that an Universal destruction extirpation of Us our Religion Peace and Laws was intended by them and shall not Joshua justly extirpate Achans eye for eye tooth for tooth that justice may measure them the measure they would have measrr'd to us is not onely 〈◊〉 but necessary if ninety and nine were taken away and but on●… A●…han left he would trouble us Pag. 36. Consecrate your selves to day unto the Lord and if all Achans could be hang'd up coram isto sole let none remain until too morrow however Pag. 47. The Lord is persuing you if you execute not vengeance on them betimes Pag. 48. Why should life be further granted to them whose very life brings death to all about them Pag. 50. Mr. Will. Bridges on Revel 4. 8. BAbylon is fallen as Rome in her Latitude with all her Merchants and those that Symbolize with her is here to be understood Pag. 6. Worthies of Israel it lies on you to enquire out this Babylonish company and to repay them an eye for an eye tooth for tooth burning for burning ear for ear liberty for liberty and blood for blood Pag. 10. Though as little ones they call for pitty yet as Babylonish they call for justice even to blood Pag. XI If a thing be indifferent in it's own nature and the doing thereof offensive to a weak Brother Authority can not write jus divinum upon it for to offend a weak Brother is to destroy him Pag. 15. Whensoever you shall behold the hand of God in the fall of Babylon say True here is a Babylonish Priest crying out alas alas my living I have wife and children to maintain I but all this is to perform the judgement of the Lord. Pag. 30. There shall be who when the Vial shall be poured out on the beast shall gnaw their tongues and blaspheme the God of heaven Pag. 33. Nath. Homes Doctor in Divinity on 2 Pet. 3. vers 13. 1641. AN ill Scholar is not said to be gone from the University till he be gone eum pannis with his clothes no more is enormity gone from the Universality of Ecclesiasticks till it be gone cum pannis not a rag of Superstition left behind Pag. 31. This Position That humane honest Intention may devise forms of devotion hath brought all the Judaism Turcism and Papism into the Church Pag. 33. These Ecclesiastical Offices Ceremonies and Discipline are set up by the Pope and are an appendix or tail of Anti-christ Pag. 33. Now is the promised time of the Churches Reformation in Christendom P. 34. Mr. H. Burton in his Sermon on Psal. 53. 7 8. Jun 20. 1641. AFter the first-born of Egypt were slain the children of Israel were deliver'd and for the chiefest of these Incendiaries certainly the Primogenit being taken away we may well hope for a glorious deliverance Pag. XI * God 's people lie under bondage of Conscience in point of Liturgy Secondly In bondage of Conscience under Ceremonies Thirdly Of Conscience under Discipline Fourthly Of Conscience under Government Pag. 21. Mr. S. Sympson on Prov. 8 15 16. By me Kings Reign * LEt no Law hinder you si jus violandum and if Law be to be broken it is for a Crown and therefore for Religion Pag. 23. * You are set over Kingdoms to root out pull down destroy and throw down do it quickly do it thorowly Pag. 24. * That which is best though evil will be counted good after Reformation as he is counted innocent who scapes at trial Pag. 25. * Among the Jews all were in the Church that were fit to live now none must be but Saints Pag. 29. One thing that has hindred the Church hath been too much respect to Antiquity Pag. 30. An other thing that hinders the Church hath been a desire of Uniformity by this Judaism and Gentilism got into the Church that they might accord together Pag. 31. Mr. Case in his Sermon on 2 Chron. 19. 6 7. Concerning Jehosaphats Caveat to his Judges Preaching to a Court Martial YOu know said he how the Midianites the King and his Party with whom you have to do have vext you with their wiles and laboured to obstruct you yet to cut Us all off in our passage into the Land of Promise that blessed Reformation which the Parlament Consult for Assembly Dispute for Armies Fight for and all good Christians Pray for Oh! therefore do you honour God in avenging your Brethren upon these Midianites in doing execution on the enemies of Christ and the Kingdom Out of the Book called Scripture and Reason pleaded for Defensive Arms or the whole Controversie about Subjects taking up of Arms Published by divers of their learnedst Divines and ordered to be Printed by the Committee of the House of Commons April 14. 1643. Which Order is subscribed by John White TO Doctor Fern 's Objection That though it

were then laid by The best Governours in all the world that have the Supremacy whom to Resist or Depose is forbidden to Subjects on pain of Damnation and pag. 8. He crys out shall the best of Governours the greatest of mercies seem intolerable O how happy would the best of ohe Nations under heaven be if they had the Rulers that our Ingratitude hath cast off And pag. 484. speaking of the Usurpers whomsoever he meant he saith He is bound to submit to the present Government as set over us by God and to obey for Conscience and to behave himself as a loyal Subject towards them In the book intitled The Marrow of Modern Divivinity publickly commended by Mr. Caryl Mr. Burroughs Mr. Strong Mr. Sprigg and Mr. Samuel Prittie EVangelista in the Dialogue being a Minister of the Gospel doth instruct Neophytus or the young Christian in these following words Pag. 201. In case you be at any time by reason of the weakness of your faith and strength of your temptations drawn aside and prevailed with to transgress any of Christs Commandments beware you do not thereupon take occasion to call Christs love to you into question but believe as firmly that he loves you as dearly as he did before you thus transgressed For this is a certain truth as no good in you or done by you did or can move Christ to love you the more So no evil in you or done by you can move Him to love you the less c. There are other things in that Book as that The Law of Christ neither justifies nor condemns And that in the Covenant betwixt Christ and his there is no more for man to do but onely to know and believe that Christ hath done all for him Out of Mr. Baxters Five Disput. of Right to Sacraments Dispute 3. Pag. 329. HE that hath oftentimes been drunk may have true grace and be in number of the godly and Pag. 330. How many professors will rashly rail and lie in their passions how few will take well a reproof but rather defend their sin How many in these times that we doubt not to be godly have been guilty of disobedience to their guides and of Schism and doing much to the hurt of the Church a very great sin Peter Lot and 't is like David did oft commit greater sins And Pag. 326 327. A man must be guilty of more sin than Peter was in denying and forsivearing Christ that is notoriously ungodly ye●… then Lot was who was drunk two nights together and committed incest twice with his own daughters and that after the miraculous destruction of Sodom of his own wife and his own miraculous deliverance Nay a man that is notoriously ungodly in the sense in hand or unsanctified must be a greater sinner th●…n Solomon was with his seven hundred wives and his three hundred concubines and gross Idolatries when his heart was turned away from the Lord God of Israel which appeared to him twice and commanded not to go after other Gods but he kept not that which the Lord commanded Mr. Baxters Five Disputations of Church Government and Worship are thus Dedicated To His Highness Richard Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland The Epistle begins SIR THese Papers are ambitlous of accompaning those against Popery into your Highness presence for the Tender of their Service This would be the way to lift You highest in the esteem and love of all your people and make them see that you are * appointed by God to be an Hea'er and Restorer and to glory in you and to bless God for you as the Instrument of our chiefest good Your Zeal for God will kindle in your Subjects a Zeal for you Parlaments will love and honour you Ministers will heartily pray for you and teach all the people to love and honour and obey you I crave your Highness favourable aceptance of the tendered service of a ●… faithful Subject to your Highness Rich. Baxter In Mr. Baxters Key for Catholikes and Epistle Dedicatory to the same Richard IT is onely the necessary defence of your life and * dignity and the lives of all the Protestants that a●…e under your Protection and Government and the Souls of men that * I desire You have your Goverment and we our lives because the * Papists are not strong enough Give not leave to every seducer to do his worst to damn mens souls when ●…ou will not tolerate every Traytor to draw * your Armies or people into * Rebellion If You ask who it is that presumeth thus to be your Monitor It is one that * rejoyceth in the present happiness of England and * earnestly * wisheth that it were but as well with the rest of the world and that honoureth * all the providences of God by which we have been brought to what we are and he is one that * concurring in the common hopes of greater blessings yet to these Nations under * your Government was encouraged to do what you daily allow your Preachers to do and to concur with the rest in the Tenders and some performance of his Service That God will make you a Ruler and preserver of his Churches here at home and a successful helper to his Churches abroad is the earnest Prayer of your Highness * faithful Subject Richard Baxter Out of the Quarrel of the Covenant delivered in three sermons Sept. 27. 30. Oct. 1. 1643. By Thomas Case one of the Assembly of Divines TO murmur at the Covenant Mr. Case calls the voice of Rebellion Pag. 19. The Covenant it self he calls a pure and heaven'y Ordi●…ance Pag. 21. Out of Mr. Case his Book of the Covenant delivered in three sermons A. D. 1643. IS Prelacy indeed the way of Gospel-government c What is it then that hath destroy'd all Gospel Orde●… and Government and VVorship in these Kingdoms as in other places of the Christian world even down to the ground hath it not been Prelacy Pag. 45. Object But there be that will tell us these have been the faults of the Persons and not of the Calling Pag. 46. Answ. 5. Was not that Calling as bad as the Men You may as well say so of the Papacy in Rome for surely the Prelacy of England which we swore to extir ate was the very same Fabrick and Model of ●…cclesiastical Regiment that is in the Antichristian world Yea such an evil it is that some Divines Venerable for their g●…eat Learning as well as for their eminent holmess did conceive sole Episcopal Jurisdiction to be the very seat of the Beast upon which the fifth Angel is now pouring out his Vial which is the reason that the Men of that Kingdom gnaw their ●…ongues for pain and blaspheme the God of heaven Pag. 47. His Majesty is bound by his Coronation Oath to confirm these Laws Quas vulgus elegerit which the Commons shall agree upon and present unto