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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92025	A reply to the answer of Anonymus to Doctor Gauden's Analysis of the sense of the covenant: and under that, to a later tract of one Mr Zach. Crofton of the same fraternity with him. By John Rowland Oxoniensis, CCC. Rector of Footscray in Kent.	Rowland, John, 1606-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing R2070; Thomason E1038_4; ESTC R207862	40,193	52

thread what do you then prattle so much of the strength of your Covenant which is far better broken than kept and if the Covenanters had brought His Majesty to his Crown they could have been no more importunate for their Covenant than they are when as it is manifest that it was not the Presbyterians that effected this great Work but it was the apparent hand of God by making use of such Instruments as he thought good the Noble Valiant Discreet General Monk and the prudent and well-advised Lord Major of London Sir Tho. Alleyn Sir Geor. Booth Sir Tho. Middleton Alderman Robinson and some other persons of note and eminency who were no ill friends to the Episcopal Government that the Presbytery have no reason to lay all the claim to what they did but they must needs allow us to have as great an interest in them as themselves for these are persons of a sublimer judgement and are equally enclined to do justice to all not byassed by any factions or surely God would never have prospered the work in their hands Rex Jupiter ommibus idem In your Covenant there was contained renouncing of Popery and Superstition Preservation of His Majesties Person c. and what Reasons then could the Scholars of Oxford give that they should not take this If as the words sound in common apprehension of them they are very good but if they must be read backward or be construed another way and signifie nothing else but a trapanning of Subjects to disobedience against their lawful Soveraign and breaking of his Laws why should any man that had unadvisedly taken it be so strongly obliged to keep it In casting dirt upon that Covenant which His present Gracious Majesty hath so highly honored c. You are resolved it seems to hold His Majesty to it but if it shall not stand with His Majesties Honor you are none of the best Subjects to press it upon him taking advantage of his then sad condition but we hope that you returning to your due Obedience to which you are strongly bound by the Laws of God and man and calling to minde your former Loyal Oathes that you will confess that you had no lawful Authority to impose such a Covenant upon his Gracious Majesty and therefore will of your own accord freely absolve him from it or you know and then it will be no thanks to you that the King and Parliament as you grant before can disanul and abrogate former Oathes and Contracts or else you will charge some with perjury which you dare not to name You tell us that the Kingdom of Scotland entred into a Solemn Covenant amongst themselves without their King before their joyning with England in this and the King and Parliament of England upon a through Debate theneof declared though at first they resolved to chastise them with a puissant Army That our Brethren of Scotland had done nothing but what became Loyal and Obedient Subjects c. It is very credible that some of your Brethren of Scotland first taught you this Covenanting way and there were too many in England confederate with them and if the King and Parliament at first so highly offended did afterwards to avoid civil Dissentions and shedding of blood compose the Differences in an amiable way yet God who sees the hearts of all men would not suffer such Rebellion to go long unpunished but chastised them severely soon after by the hand of Oliver Cromwel who made a full Conquest wasted and ruined what he pleased and brought them into irrecoverable bondage had it not pleased God at length to set them free by the most happy Return of His Excellent Majesty Charles the Second to His just Inheritance and therefore I hope the Scots will not prove so ungratefull to Him but as good Subjects being now set at liberty by Him leave off their Covenanting amongst themselves without His consent and submit to His Royal Government as their duty bindes them You tell us of Queen Elizabeth and King James both of blessed memories assisting the Netherlands combined not onely without but against the unjust violence of Philip the Second of Spain first and chiefly in matters of Religion and entring into League with them as Free States which was afterward continued by His late Majesty And why not of blessed Memory as you said of the two former Princes in his Expedition for the Relief of Rochel and Alliance with the Prince of Orange That Queen Elizabeth King James and King Charles all of blessed Memories did assist the Netherlands being then poor distressed States oppressed in their Consciences by the King of Spain all the world knows sufficiently for by this means they are grown from a poor contemptible condition to be the Potent Hoogen Mogens the High and Mighty Lords of Holland and West-Friezland c. which hath cost the best blood of Subjects that England had besides multitudes of Gentry and Commons that lost their lives in their defence The Netherlands were under Philip King of Spain indeed but they state the Case far otherwise than it was or is with us in England how rightly they best know But how far and upon what grounds of Religion and Policy Princes may afford Relief to Subjects of other Princes that are oppressed and enslaved by them especially for Conscience sake is too long to dispute now certain I am that the Netherlands were bound in the sight of God and man to a great measure of thankfulness to the Kings and Queen of England for their Assistance and by consequence to their Successors and subjects but whether they did shew it to His late Majesty during the Wars in England or to His Royal Issue in their exile amongst them and to such poor subjects as followed them I know is a question easily to be resolved Thus I have given you some Pattern of Covenanting Christians besides the holy League in France Why Sir what Patterns are they when you speak of the Netherlands you mention no Covenant they took but say they combined together but your Patterns are you say the two Houses of Parliament in England and your Brethren in Scotland Surely the man is besides himself The Doctor complains of your Scotch Covenant and that which was set forth by the two Houses of Parliament without the Kings consent and he saith further that there were never any such Covenanting Christians heard of untill the Papists covenanted together to destroy the French Protestants and if you have any other Patterns to produce he challengeth you to do it In answer whereto you say idem per idem your Patterns are the two Houses of Parliament and our Brethren of Scotland the Boys in the streets will hiss at you You adde that you forbear to mention Germany the Cantons the Albigenses and others because you had said enough already when as you had said just nothing and what you now say is as ridiculous as the former You will not mention Germany c. when