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A80836	[Analēpsis anelēphthē] the fastning of St. Petrrs [sic] fetters, by seven links, or propositions. Or, The efficacy and extent of the Solemn League and Covenant asserted and vindicated, against the doubts and scruples of John Gauden's anonymous questionist. : St. Peters bonds not only loosed, but annihilated by Mr. John Russell, attested by John Gauden, D.D. the league illegal, falsly fathered on Dr. Daniel Featley: and the reasons of the University of Oxford for not taking (now pleaded to discharge the obligations of) the Solemn League and Covenant. / By Zech. Crofton ...	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6982; ESTC R171605	137,008	171

ΑΝΑΛΗΨΙΣ ΑΝΕΛΗΦΘΗ The Fastning of St. PETRRS FETTERS By SEVEN Links or Propositions OR The Efficacy and Extent of the Solemn League and Covenant asserted and vindicated against The Doubts and Scruples of Dr. John Gauden's Anonymous Questionist St. Peters Bonds not only loosed but annihilated by Mr. John Russell Attested by John Gauden D. D. The League Illegal falsly fathered on Dr. Daniel Featley AND THE Reasons of the University of Oxford for not taking now pleaded to discharge the obligation of the Solemn League and Covenant By Zech. Crofton Minister of the Gospel at S. Botolphs Algate LONDON Jer. 34.15 Ye were now turned and had don right in my sight and ye had made a Covenant before me in the House which is called by my Name Ver. 16. But ye turned and polluted my Name Ver. 18 20. I will give the men that have transgressed my Covenant which have not performed the words of the Covenant which they made before me I will even give them into the hand of their enemies Error cui non resistitur approbatur veritas quae non defenditur opprimitur negligere quippe cum possis deturbare perversos nihil est aliud quam fovere nec caret scrupulo societatis occultae qui manifesto facinori cum potest desinit obviate Innocent London Printed for Ralph Smith at the sign of the Bible in Cornhill near the Royal Exchange 1160. The Epistle to the READER Courteous Reader I Am not insensible that the subject matter of these papers and the season of their publication may expose them and their Author to the censure of the Committee of Discretion which if they do I cannot but let thee know this will not be the first time I have fallen under their correction For such was my loyalty to the Kings Majesty in His late unjust exile and the cogency of the Covenant on my conscience that my preached Sermons and printed Papers were very frequently under the examination of this Committee constituted not onely of my envious enemies desirous to discover in me a rashness which might prove my ruine but also my trembling friends and timerous brethren in the Ministry who thought any who stept before them in duty thrust themselves into present danger and yet no judgment could pass against me save onely this The state of affairs might have made him more politick but that it is truth he spake and a Ministers duty to speak it could never be denied I presume men to whom I am in any measure known will not judge me such a fool as not to discern the current of the times countenance of the Court clamors of the Countrey contradictions of rising persons in the Church Commonwealth to what is herein asserted the compliance and connivance of many my brethren in the Ministry under the same Oath herein vindicated and the cooled courage of the first Composers earnest Instigators and zealous Promoters of the Solemn League and Covenant and that in dissenting from them and opposing my private apprehensions to their more prudent affections I must needs expose my self to the reproach of singularity inconsiderate heat peevishness of spirit and contract on my self the frowns of men in power and frettings of my complying brethren and fellow-confederates and fail the expectations of my own preferment which my courage and constancy for His Majesties just interest in the worst of oppressing times and utmost of opposition wherein many who now vilifie the Covenant durst not speak nay did basely comply and promise to be true and faithful to the Common-wealth of England as it was then established without a King and House of Lords had heightned in both my friends and foes against which when I reason with flesh and blood and consult a proud heart within and numerous family without me I find sufficient Arguments according to the dictates of nature to determine folly against my self but I hope I have not so learned Christ True piety doth suggest and convince me that wisdom towards God is folly to the world and the Watchmans prudence is to proclaim an approaching evil whilst at a distance capable of diversion and escape and that the most wise of Gods Ministers in all ages judged it their duty to oppose Gods Word to mens prevailing lust and present propensity unto wickedness Elijah-like to stand alone and speak the mind of God when for so doing they may be branded as the troublers of Israel when indeed their sin not the preachers speach doth cause the commotion with Micaiah to denounce the danger of Ahabs design though 400 Prophets encourage it and King and the Court encline to it and with Jeremiah to say to the King Keep thy Oath and thou shalt be delivered when Princes and Prophets perswade the breach thereof and himself must down into the Dungeon as a preacher of sedition Few men will deny that Roger Bacon in his plain preaching to King Henry 3. that if he did not remove his malignant counsellors Peter Bishop of Winchester and Peter de Rivallis he could never be at quiet played a wiser part than did the Bishop who to please the Kings humor preached up the Kings prerogative to such a pitch as brought himself under an Anathema from which he was forced to appeal to Rome for relief And all good Protestants will conclude Cranmer was much wiser in alone withstanding King Council Parliament Lords temporal spiritual in the case of K. Henry 8. his six Popish Articles than in that Court-compliance which caused that doleful complaint in the midst of the fire This my unworthy right hand Magnanimity is a vertue not the least necessary to a man but most necessary to a Christian and most of all to a Minister who should like his Steeple stand in all storms raised under and by the variations of human affairs and not like the Weather cock turn with every wind I am ashamed to think with what vigour some asserted the Obligation of the Covenant in reference to Religion when the civil part thereof was clouded and broken and now would vindicate the civil part thereof whilst Religion is specially concerned Like wise Archers level at the mark because of spectators observation but resolve to shoot fair and far off whilst others wholly couch it are ready to cast it off or by false glosses and frivolous interpretations evade it and study how to charm others into the same silence I had almost said sin It is worth remembrance that Religion and its Reformation never was nor must now be expected to be the result of an ordinary measure of resolution It is needlesse to recite the boldness of the Apostles and Primitive Fathers against the contradiction of the Pagans Alexander and Athanasius that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against the Arrian Empire in promoting and defending the true Religion or Wickliff Hus and Luther and others in the first reformation and the conflicts of Englands Non-conformists against the remainders of corruption and Romish Reliques in our Church

Church The very transcription of this is a sufficient confutation Who can read it and not run and read a most malicious heart venting it self by a most weak head Sounds not this Argument like Dr. Featley Sure his Executor thought his name enough to make acceptable the dullest notions could drop from his own brain I shall desire it may be considered 1. No particular gesture is necessary and appointed of God to be used by men in making Oaths and Covenants and therefore men have chosen what gesture of the body to them seemed good to declare the assent of the mind as Abraham and Jacob the putting the hand under the hallow of the thigh our Countrey ordinarily useth the laying the hand on the Bible and kissing the Book but other Countreys the holding up of the right hand May not the Magistrate prescribing an Oath prescribe what gesture seems him good They must needs be eager bent who will fight with a shadow 2. Is the lifting up of the hand a gesture peculiar to an Angel only used in menacing and when he stands on sea and land at the same time Did this man never read nor hear it used in other places of Scripture and on other occasions or was it the vehemency or verity of the threatning and doom denounced which was witnessed by it What thinks he of Abraham in Gen. 14.22 I have lift up my hand to God I will not take any thing that is thine He was no Angel nor threatning any judgement nor did he stand on sea and land at the same time Or what thinks he of Ezek. 20.5 I lifted up my hand unto the seed of the House of Jacob God was not an Angel nor then menacing any fatal doom but promising the greatest blessings which Israel could enjoy If he had pleased to consult any Expositors on these or the like Texts he should find that the lifting up of the hand was the usual gesture in swearing any Oaths and Covenants He would make the World believe the Covenanters were in an hard strait to find an instance of this gesture in Scripture and therefore they flie to the Angel in the Revelation 3. Hath the Solemn League and Covenant no ground or foundation in Scripture Suppose the matter of it be no more than he here suggesteth viz. The preservation of two Nations hath this no ground in Scripture Did he never read therein of two Nations joyned in one Covenant for the good one of another But further hath the preservation of the true Reformed Religion and reformation according to the Word of God no foundation in Scripture are there no Historical Relations of Covenants of this matter hath the preservation of the Kings Honour and Happiness no ground or foundation in Scripture hath unity and uniformity in Religion no ground in Scripture and are not these the matter of the Covenant Can any thing but horrid impudence say It was not fit for them to lay their hands on the Bible for this Covenant hath no ground or foundation in that Book This Authour might have well forborne this charge who himself concedes that punctilio in the manner of making this Covenant which many and himself would deny to have ground in Scripture viz. the making it without the Kings consent For he grants that a Covenant to remove a scandal League Illegal p. 20. and fulfill the express command of God may be made not only without but against the consent of the Prince If this Covenant fall not under one of these nay both these qualifications I have lost my reason 4. With what face can this fury say the purport of this Covenant was the lifting up of their hands against the Lords Anointed and his Church whilst its professed inscription is A Solemn League and Covenant for Reformation and Defence of Religion the Honour and Happiness of the King Answerable whereunto are the grounds inducing to make it Having before our eyes the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the Honour and Happiness of the Kings Majesty and His Posterity and accordingly promiseth the preservation and reformation of Religion according to the Word of God and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and Authority that the world may bear witness with our consciences that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His Majesties just Power and Greatness Whatever may have been the practises of some wicked men who sware this Covenant it is as clear as the Sun That the lifting up of the hand for the good of the Church Honour and Safety of the Lords Anointed was the purport of the Covenant it self And the violent rejection of the Covenant as an Almanack out of date before the horrid violence done unto His late Majesty is a manifest testimony of it together with the protest of the covenanted Secluded Members of Parliament and of the Ministers of London against those perjurious proceedings As likewise the publick testimonies of the Ministers of the Gospel to the Solemn League and Covenant of almost all the Counties in England do declare it and the divastation and captivity of Scotland the Sequestrations Imprisonments and death of many in England and contests with all zeal faithfulness and constancy against all difficulties and dangers unto the very effecting of the Happy Return of His most Sacred Majesty and that in conscience of this very Covenant do loudly sound it through the world if the same malice do not deafen the ear in hearing the comment that darkned the eye in reading the Text. Now Sir I must tell him the lifting up of the hand might be a most proper gesture to the taking of this Covenant not only as a gesture usual in swearing and expedient because expeditious in an Oath universally sworn by whole Assemblies but as a sign of special suit and earnest supplication for divine grace and assistance Lam. 2.19 Of Solemn adoration and worship of God praising his goodness that had enclined the heart of the Governors of his people to bring them into such a Covenant Neh. 8.6 Or of joy and alacrity in so Sacred a Bond unto such absolute duties tending to the honour of God happiness of the King and safety of true Religion Ps 119.48 And in these respects it is a gesture no less suitable to men than Angels and the standing on earth not sea and earth at the same time performing a duty and promising things required in Scripture and praying mercies and blessings not menacing a fatal doom Yet I will not deny that it imprecated Gods direful judgements to fall on the heads of such as should violate this Solemn League and Covenant which our eyes have seen accomplished on such as slighted its obligation in the Civil part thereof And I cannot but tremble to think what must needs attend such as not only slight but set against and violently break through these holy bonds in that part which immediately concerneth God and true Religion whilst we see the

of his Executors fancy to clear his way to preferment it gives us arguments by number not by weight the force of any of them is in the Oxford-Reasons that fountain that feeds and Fort that guards all exceptions against the Covenant and shall in its place be considered The fourth and last Pamphlet no lesse ridiculous than the rest The doubts and scruples concerning the Covenant weighed as scarce having a grain of true Religion or a scruple of a Right Reason is the doubts and scruples against taking the Solemn League and Covenant published by an aliquis Nemo a man in the Moon and so like to be resolved by Nuper Nunquam but this is ushered into the world at its * Being reprinted new birth by the learned Epistle of Dr. John Gauden and is offered to the consideration of Sir Lawrence Bromfield and Mr. Zachary Crofton and so makes the Exchange ring and streets roar with Dr. Gauden's Reply to Mr. Croftons Answer about the Covenant and so calls for regard which otherwise was as fit ware for the Tobacco-shops as any the rest Truly Sir I could not read this Epistle without astonishment for that instead of those clear pregnant and constant beams of right reason and true Religion which shineth with the brightness and stability of Divine and Human Laws and might be the pillars of this truth firm support of duty sure bounds of obedience and safe repose of conscience which he promised in his Analysis and I demanded in my Analepsis he doth idem iisdem verbis asserere affirm the same thing without distinction in the same terms without variation or other demonstration onely as having obtained his fancied paternal authority he doth something more Magisterially prescribe the performing of the Covenant against Schism which he would have us take on his word to de Presbytery to which Doctor Usher would have reduced Episcopacy and Superstition before we consider its obligation against Episcopacy and in a grave passion brandeth the Covenant himself hath sworn with the Epithite of a lawless unnational Covenant and stigmatizeth the exactors thereof as covetous crafty men engaged in the sacrilegious depredations of the Church and unstable souls Which cannot be found in me My 8 l. per annum will not more acquit me from the one than my Sequestration for adhereing to the Covenant will acquit me from the other But he addeth Or silly souls and such an one I may be yet will play the fool in glorying in such godly simplicity In this heat he chargeth all Civillians and Casuists with foolish and fanatick Superstition as well as mad and violent Schism in teaching men to avoid what is good honest just and lawful because of a supposed and confessed abuse thereof Not so much as favouring Hezekiah who demolished the brazen Serpent nor Paul in his resolution never to eat flesh in his future diet We may be assured he will never be so superstitious or schismatical as to cut off his right hand or pluck out his right eye which are good honest just lawfull members in case they offend him though the Lord Christ himself hath so directed But Sir with what face think you can Dr. Gauden again urge against the Covenant the defect of Authority its sad effects the obscurity ambiguity and seeming discrepancy of the Covenant for the discharge of its obligation whilst he hath been fully and soberly answered as to these things and hath made no Reply How is it that he presseth forward his Episcopacy without distinction and yet I have told him there is Papal Episcopacy to be extirpated and a Presbyterial Presidency pointed unto them by the Primate of Armagh to be advanced Knoweth he not qui bene distinguit bene docet Or doth he disdain to take truth from so mean an hand He is a Minister so am I though my poor estate numerous family or want of the Kings grace will not allow me to write D. D. But seriously Sir though Popish do me-thinks Protestant Bishops should not disdain a Reformation in a Luthers hand Let him then consult Dr. Sanderson De Juramento and if he square with or I differ from his Divinity let him be humm'd and me be hist contra I believe he would not have us think him so ambitious of his Episcopal See to which some say he is promoted as for it to break his Covenant and brow-beat his brethren and rage against the Oath of God with à non amote and being demanded a reason can say no more than Non possum dicere quare Sure he is not so stout a Sophister as to pass the premises and stand to the denial of the conclusion If he have attained to a Papal-Episcopal-Chair I hope he will not pretend to the Infallibility of it and bind our faith on his ipse dixit Verily Sir I cannot but say to the Doctor concerning his Analysis and this Epistle as Erasmus to Faber of Vienna Mente cares si res agitur tibi seria rursus Fronte cares si sic ludis amice Faber Whether he be proudly mad or foolishly pertinacious I will not judge but must yet call on him to remember the Covenant and consider from whence he is fallen and repent He had need to run to the common Refuge the Oxford Reasons but it is well if they prove not a broken Reed more to wound than defend him Sir notwithstanding these and the like Squibs and Crackers flung out against the Solemn League and Covenant to make prophane men sport and expose it to vulgar scorn more than satisfie conscience the Covenant keeps the field in its full force and vigour and St. Peters bonds abide I shall not therefore waste time and paper to trace their follies and tire my Reader with an answer to words without weight but in the pursuit of the edification of souls the end of my Ministerial Writing as well as Preaching Fasten St. Peters Fetters and secure my Prisoner by a Chain made of those Seven Links or Propositions which being cleared and confirmed will extend the influence and enforce the obligation of the Covenant against that prophane opposition which is made unto it viz. 1. The asserting of the Solemn League and Covenant and its obliging force is a duty indispensably incumbent on every man in his place but especially on the Ministers of the Gospel 2. The irregularities in first making the Covenant will not discharge its obligation now it is made and sworn 3. The matter sworn in the Solemn League and Covenant is just and lawful to be maintained and pursued 4. The form and manner of making the Solemn League and Covenant was good and allowable 5. The Ambiguities and Contradictions of the words in the Solemn League are imagined and not real 6. The Covenant in its quality and for its obligation is publick and National as well as private and personal 7. The Solemn League and Covenant is in the nature of it permanently binding and no way to be absolved or

in the story forbids instances hoping general hints may answer the learned and sober 3. Nor am I convinced that it was in His power by the equity of the Law Numb 32. they mean 30.2 to annull and make void the Covenant for admitting the equity of that Law by Analogy to reach us I hope no adult child shall on observation of irregularities in the Government of a Family be barred from vowing in his place and calling to his power and capacity sincerely really and constantly to endeavor the Reformation thereof viz. Quenquam qui gaudet usu rationis ita plene sub alterius potestate esse quin ut sit quantum ad aliqua saltem sui juris is Dr. Sanderson's Rule though the effect may yet the lawful endeavour cannot be out of the childs reach De Turam if the child or wife swear nothing but positive duty or what is within their power and so limit their vow I hope the Superiours interdiction will favour more of passionate mistake than strength to avoid the vow Yet I must confess I am not clear that the equity of that Law will reach our case I was ever willing to yield His Majesty the Reverence due to a Political Parent but in this case of conscience wherein He is abstracted from and opposed unto the Parliament I find a defect which makes me fear the simile will not square and though I can own Him as a Parent to be by Him corrected and disposed yet methinks the Parental power is placed in others at least conjunct with Him viz. the Parliament I am sure Legislation is Paternal power and Execution more proper to the other Parent and that the Lords and Commons have a share if not the greatest share in Legislation no true Englishman nay no ordinary Polititian can or will deny when I observe the King sworn to Rule according to the Laws quas populas clegerit which the people shall choose and the Writ for their Election to require that they be furnished and have plenam sufficientem potestatem pro se communitate c. ad faciendum consentiendum his quae tunc ibidem de communi in consilidicti Regni nostri contigerint ordinari ita quod pro defectu potestatis hujusmodi c. dicta negotia infecta non remaneant Paternal Authority power to consent and make Laws in the great Affairs of the Kingdom as the Family and when I observe Polititians and Lawyers even English-men generally to conclude the forma informans form animating the Law to be the consent or choice of the people whence Marius Salamonius that great Lawyer defining the Law saith it is Expressa Civium Conventio and makes this the Reason of their obligation Ligatur populus legibus suis De principatu lib. 1. p. 35 36. Instin Cod. 1. Tit. 17. Lex 8. quasi pactis conventis quae verae sunt leges whence Theodosius the Emperour writing to the Senate of Rome doth declare consensus universorum to be the formality of those Laws that he would establish to which our Hollingshead and Sir Thomas Smith before mentioned doth fully assent and concur as likewise Fortescue who makes the King to be as the Minister in Marriage who may establish and declare it but the consent of parties gives it being and the common Dialect of our own Statutes being the Assent of the Lords and Commons and Authority of Parliament wich no less frequency than the Assent of the King and that the contriving debating fully forming by frequent reading serious consideration and full disputes is the peculiar work of the two Houses whilst a Ministerial Declaration though in a Dialect and form of Majesty is the proper and only work of a King though I deny not a Parental power and Prerogative to the King I cannot but judge it more than probable that the proper Paternal power is in the Parliament or at the least in the three Estates and then Sir we are under this unhappy question Whether to obey father or mother when they falling out command different nay contrary things this I confess is not more the distraction than the confusion of the Family yet certainly in such an unhappy chance prudent and rational children must and will cleave to the principal legislative party who hath a confessed authority and power to extend or restrain augment or diminish the Prerogative and Ministerial power of the other bound to act according to their appointments Sir Dr. Gaudens Appeal to the Oxford Reasons hath led me to this Discourse and unwilling distinction but my prayer is and hence-forward shall be that England may honour father and mother and know no difference for the Case is now altered and this Argument is of no force as I thought I had sufficiently hinted in my last for His late Majesty forbade the Act but never assumed an Authority to void the Obligation and His most Sacred Majesty by His own subjection to it Declaration for it and Oath to endeavour the Establishment thereof hath as is before noted made it valid and I hope such as call Him Father will weigh the equity of this Law Numb 30.2 and not only acknowledge their brethren bound by it but themselves become subject to the same bond which had before a lawful and sufficient but now hath a compleat and perfect Auhority 4. 4. The gesture in making the Covenant vindicated The fourth and last particular in the manner of making the Solemn League and Covenant is The action or gesture of the body used in the swearing thereof to declare the assent of the minde by which prophane spirits do endeavour to reproach it for that it was not sworn after the ordinary manner used among us by laying the hand on the Bible but by lifting up the hand towards heaven Amongst those who have of late appeared against the Covenant I find none speaking against this gesture League Illegal p. 21. save only Dr. Featlies ghost who like it self more scurrilously than seriously pretends to Answer one Text of Scripture which he supposeth to be the only one for defence of this gesture Rev. 10.15 The Angel lifted up his hand and sware c. Unto which he saith That might be a fit gesture for an Angel menacing a fatal doom to the world which yet may not be thought so fit a gesture for men entring into an holy League for the preservation of two Kingdoms If they can as the Angel stand upon the earth and the sea at the same time let them imitate the Angels in lifting up their hands when they make their Covenant Howsoever I think it a fitter gesture in taking this Oath than after the usual manner to lay the hand on the Bible for this Oath and Covenant hath no ground or foundation at all in that Book and the lifting up of the hand very well expresseth the purport of the Covenant which is a lifting up their hands against the Lords Anointed and his