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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

himself had made with them in Horeb and mount Sinai punctually prescribed to God to Moses and by Moses as the supream Governor or King imposed upon them but this was not the case of the Church of England nor was there need of such a Covenant or any Moses c. as chief Governor commanding it Here you keep a fearful quoil and whiffle about making a great cry but there is little wooll calling the Doctor Deceiver Reviler and that in his Writings there are falshoods enough and yet shew none First you say it is false that there was no Covenant but of Gods own prescribing and secondly that he prescribed but one I do not finde that the Doctor saith any such thing for ho quoted that spontaneous Vow Numb 30.2 You are still fighting with your own shadow yet you must say something lest the Reader should think you were at a non-plus as Sergeant Green did who would undertake to overthrow all Episcopacy but being worsted by the learned Selden cryed out But Archbishops are no Bishops then said Selden Judges are no Lawyers and Aldermen no Citizens You instance in the Covenant of Moses and the Princes of the Congregation with the cheating Gibeonites as you call them Josh 9.15 But there was Moses the chief whose consent you never had and therefore are less excusable than the Gibeonites were But because you are so much taken with the Gibeonites example and bring it in so often as if it served your turn well I shall say more to it when I meet with it again The chief Covenant indeed was that which God made with his people upon mount Sinai and all lawfull Covenants which man makes with God are but branches of that as when we renew our obedience by serious repentance as the children of Israel and the children of Judah did vowing to keep Gods Commandments But I know not that God gave you any such command to vow against Episcopacy and I doubt you never asked his counsel when you entred into it what ever your heady zeal might suggest to you for it is not a good intention fi we may be so charitable as to think you intended no harm it that makes a good action but you must have sufficient warrant for it from Gods word shew but that and we have done It is false that the Covenant was imposed by Moses or that Moses was supream Governor for Moses was no more supream Governor or King than Samuel You love to move questions Samuel no doubt whilest he was the sole Judge over Israel was their supream Governour until Saul was anointed King But Samuel was never in Scripture called King as Moses was as King in Jesurun The like blustering he keeps who imposed the Covenant of the Law God or Moses Doubtless God principally but ministerially it was done by the hand of Moses this is to amuse his Covenanters and such as will be taken with shadows for what of all this here is great stir to little purpose unless you wil conclude aright as you should do the King in his kingdom is next under God as Moses amongst the Israelites and his subjects must be guided directed by him He blesseth God as one would bless an idol That Apostacy to strange gods was not the Church of Englands case that they should enter into a Covenant Tell me what meant the falling off of several Bishops to too much Popery in doctrine witness all their Arminian Tenents and also their general practice in Cathedrals and elsewhere seiting up Altars Tapers Candles c. devised by mans fancies which last is with many other things in the Queens Injunctions Injunct 3. affirmed to tend to idolatry and superstition c. the like may be said of Church Musick Anthems c. a thing which the judicious Hooker censured and condemned and the late Queen Elizabeth provided against Injunct 49. and if any Hymn were sung care must be taken that it be so done as to be understood and perceived and where this is not so done see the Censure of the Homily of the place and time of Prayer Part 2. To answer to every particular would require a large volumn but you have answered your self and justified the Doctor that Apostacy to strange gods was not the Church of Englands Case You quote judicious Hooker condemning something let him be the Umpire if you please between the Bishops and the Presbyters and you say Queen Elizabeths Injunctions have made provision against such things and the Books of Homilies condemns other things well what would you have then you see there is good provision made against all exorbitancies in Ceremonies and the Doctrine of the Church of England is comprehended in the 39 Articles if any man have transgressed and done more then he can answer he is lyable to be questioned for it and I think so may you for your contempt and covenanting contrary to all former Laws or Examples only what you have labored to procure since for your own security As for Popish families crept into England with swarms of Priests and Jesuites There have more crept in since these civil Wars began with your Covenant than ever were since the Reformation yet you would charge all upon the Bishops The Lawes made against Priests and Jesuits were they put in practice were good enough and had there been as good provision made against your Covenanting it had bin well for the Church of England You are very pettish because the Doctor speaks what others believe to be true that the Covenant was but the petty composition of a few politick men c. Lawyers or Ministers no great Clerks or Statesmen c. adding that their heads rather than their hearts and State-correspondencies more than their Consciences brought it forth we finde a great deal of pretended zeal in it but he that shall use St. Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and hold it against the Sun shall quickly perceive many flaws and foul spots that it hath and besides the rottenness of their hearts the idleness of their heads that made it by mustering up clean and unclean together making no difference betwixt things lawful and those that are forbidden by the Law of God The Doctor said There is no pattern for any such Covenant in the New Testament nor in all succeeding ages c. no Covenanting Christians until the holy League meaning say you that of the bloody Papists to destrey the Hugonots so they termed the Protestants in France that is but an ill president for you to follow except that of Baptism the new and Evangelical Covenant of all true Christians You answer If there were no Precept nor Pattern in the New Testament it is sufficient if there be any in the Old if not Levitical or meerly typical unless the Doctor be turned An inomian I wish you were as sound in both Testaments as the Doctor is The Evangelical Covenant of Baptism in the New Testament is vastly different indeed from your Scorch Covenant

as you do onely mention it and no more but for any Covenants they entred into without their Princes consent if you knew of any you should have mentioned that or else hold your peace but it is clear you could finde none which is sufficient to shew your falshood and folly and blasphemy in the close who dare compare your Covenant with our sacred Covenant made with God in Baptism wherein we are sprinkled with the blood of Christ and spiritually washed from the guilt of original sin Give me leave to make a short digression if it be any to shew how hurtful it is to binde the King and his Subjects to stand to the Covenant We honor our Kings here as Christs Vice-gerents upon earth and although they are compassed with human infirmities and are restrained by good Laws from doing wrong because of the largeness of their power yet they ought not to be bound with Saint Peters bonds or hindred from doing any good they can You know that God hath given to the Kings of England a miraculous Gift of Healing most scroffulous Tumors called The Kings Evil for every good gift comes from God and that many hundreds have been healed by His Majesties touching of them since His happy Return who could finde no remedy before from Chyrurgions or Physicians and divers perished for want of help and if the Christian Kings of France can do the like it is but a farther Confirmation of the certainty and lawfulness of it now when they perform these Cures some worthy Bishop or Episcopal Divine waiteth on them repeating the Promise of our blessed Saviour to his Church over which the King is held by us to be Supream in his Dominions They shall lay their hand upon the sick and they shall recover Mark 16.18 If your Covenant will not allow this to be done by them but that poor people must perish for want of Cure when God hath so graciously provided it for them how do you think it possible the people will endure such a Covenant I have been told that some sons of Belial should speak evil of it who would speak no better of Saint Pauls Napkins or of the shadow of Saint Peter passing by I do not finde that this way of healing was practised here at least so frequently before Edward the Confessor's dayes who is well represented on the Royal Exchange under a double capacity of King and Priest with a Crown on his head and a Bible in his hand and from him it descended to his Successors yet if I forget not I have read something of King Lucius to this purpose who was the first Christian King here when Joseph of Arimathea lived in this Island But should any man ask a reason why the King doth not cure all Diseases as well as that or why it was not practised so often at least in former days it would be to tedious to discourse of Sympathies and Antipathies of Thora and Antithora or of such providential wayes wherewith our good God doth always supply mankinde with helps against all defects and inconveniences where we stand in need One may as well forbid the use of the Mariners Compass as if it were performed by sorcery or inchantments because we cannot give a certain reason why the Loadstone should attract iron as it doth or the Needle should point alwayes to the North. I shall onely assign two reasons of His Majesties curing the Evil. The first shall be that it is very probable that this Evil is more frequent and increaseth more now than it did of old by reason of change of Diet or from what cause soever it may proceed wherein we differ from the Ancients and therefore God hath furnisht us with this remedy against it And secondly Christianity waxing cold and men being more subjoct to rebel against the Supream Magistrate than of elder times for so Saint Paul writes to Timothy That in the last dayes perillous times should come that men should be Traytors heady high-minded c. 2 Tim. 3.4 And Saint Peter saith 2 Pet. 3 3. There shall come in the last dayes scoffers walking after the rown lusts such as despise Government chap. 2.8 presumptuous not being afraid to speak evil of Dignities and therefore 1 Pet chap. 2.13 he commands all Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man to the King as Supream and verse 17. Fear God honour the King Now that Subjects might live more peaceably in obedience to the King this may be none of the least occasions God having hereby discovered unto us that he hath bestowed upon the King this divine Vertue of Healing some of the most general and spreading Diseases amongst the people more than he hath given to any other men I would we knew the extent of your Covenant if we must obey it I do not see but most degrees of Honor the Nobles as well as of the Clergy must be levelled by it It may be the Order of the Garter will be allowed for no better than an old Popish Ceremony fit to be abolished if you may tanquam ex cathreda interpret the sense of your Covenant which you hold to be as infallible as Rome doth her Church all must believe it under pain of damnation call but your Covenanters the Church and I find no difference But to return to Episcopacy methinks it is high time Bishops should be restored with more power than formerly which will be but moderate Episcopacy in regard of the great increase of Schisms and Heresies and the dangerous times we are fallen into But whom do you call your dear Mother of the Church of England Pray what is she Here according to your scurrilous way of jeering you proceed to speak non-sense it seems you are but an ungracious disobedient son your Mother is grown poor by many of your plunderings and sequestrings and now you will not know her Doth not St. Paul call himself the Father of those Churches he had begotten in Christ and why then cannot the Church of England spiritually and metaphorically be called our Mother whose breasts we suck in the two Sacraments of Baptism and the Holy Eucharist The Scripture saith That Kings shall be the Churches Nursing Fathers and Queens Nursing Mothers Are you such a Critick and understand not that or will you quarrel with the Scripture for it As for your Post-script of Doctor Vshers Model of Reformed Episcopacy the Learned Doctor Bernard being now living is able to give the best account of that but I hope I have given you a good account of all the rest POST-SCRIPT THe Reader may if he please for his own better satisfaction compare the Arguments of Anonymus with those of Mr. Zachary Crofton who is reported to be the Goliath of the Covenanters in London and he shall finde them to be birds of a feather having little more to say for themselves Qui utrumvis recte noverit ambos immo omnes noverit answer one and answer them all I would counsel them if they will take my advice to live peaceably and not to disturb the Church of God whereof they are members considering how dangerous Schisms are to let in Popery Judaism Turkism Paganism and all manner of impiety to the subversion if it were possible of the Christian Faith we are all as brethren travelling to the Heavenly Canaan Let us remember that Charge Joseph gave to his brethren going to their earthly Canaan See that you fall not out by the way God grant us all a right understanding in all things There are others since Zach Crofton that plead for a Reformation of our Church in Doctrine Worship and Discipline let them by strength of Argument prove the necessity the pretend and let us have the same liberty in an amiable way to defend it and I doubt not of a good issue always with this proviso That the Covenanters shall not when they are at a loss run back to shelter themselves under their Covenant as they use to do We know what Ajax said of Vlysses Et quaerre censciui Arma they need not blaze it about so much to perswade the people things are so extream bad in the Church of England their best way will be if they mean peaceably to make their Addresses to the reverend Bishops and by their advice if there be any thing that will not agree with these mens queezy stomachs something may be more fully explained to give them satisfaction which I believe for my part is impossible for any men to do they are so inconstant in their judgements and resolutions and that it would not please them long if they were suffered to make the Alteration themselves they will stand to nothing unless their Dalilah the Covenant may be allowed to be Supream Governor and that is the main reason of the great noise they make for want of Reformation which if there were such necessity for it as they would make the world believe there is nothing hinders more than their Solemn League and Covenant for to what end should the wisest men upon the earth alledge Scripture Councels Fathers to confirm any Truth if when all is done it will not square with their Lesbian Rule their leaden Covenant which will bend every way and which alone they will admit to be the measure of it it shall be held by them for no Reformation at all Wherefore all that are dis-satisfied with our Church in Doctrine or Discipline must renounce the Covenant if they expect any thing to be amended and which is the readiest way to set things to rights rest in the wise and pious determination of our Ancestors who setled Episcopal Government here the livelyest pattern this day in all the world whereby all erronious and heterodox Opinions may be kept down and Religion setled and continued according to the true Rule which is the word of God My Coronis shall be an Hexastick of Sir John Sucklings never to be forgotten IF I were of your Covenant Then you would call me John of Gant Or one of high renown But now I am John for the King You will call me a poor Suckling And so you 'l cry me down FINIS