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A93351	The three Kingdomes healing-plaister. Or, The solemne covenant of reformation and defence explained. Wherein is shewed the authority, antiquity, and use of an holy covenant: the occasions moving to it, and the ends in doing it, the necessity of it at this time, for diverse reasons herein expressed. Also a full explanation of each article of the Covenant, to the satisfaction of all: shewing the benefit that may redound by it, viz. Gods protection and blessing to heale our miseries, and establish truth in religion, peace and lasting happinesse to the three kingdomes. Likewise shewing the danger of refusing it, and Gods curse upon us, if we enter into it deceitfully. Imprimatur, Ia. Cranford. By G.S., Gent.	Smith, George, 1602 or 3-1658.	1643 (1643)	Wing S4039; Thomason E71_14; ESTC R460	14,884	18

wherein we sweare fidelity one to another and to God to reforme our evill wayes and walke according to his word in our lives and practice And such a Covenant is part of Gods worship yea it is sometimes in the Scripture put for the whole worship of God Esa. 19. 18. where men bind themselves by Covenant or oath for it is all one to covenant as to sweare to seeke God and to endeavour to doe his whole will sometime God is said to sweare by himselfe in G●n 17. 8. it is said He made a Covenant with Abraham to give him the Land of Canaan and in Exodus 6. 8. it is said Hee sware to give to Abraham the Land of Canaan and He sware to D●vid Psal. 8. 9. 3. and againe I have sworne by my selfe saith the Lord Jer. 49. 13. As God sweares to blesse the obedient so he sweares to destroy the disobedient It is said Heb. 4. 3. that hee swore the rebellious Covenant-breaking Israeli●e should not enter into his rest By Covenants or oaths God binds and engageth himselfe unto men and engageth men to him againe God sware to David and therefore David sware unto the Lord and to the mighty God of Iacob Psal. 132. 2. When God offers to Covenant with us and wee refuse to covenant with him Hee will sweare by himselfe that such a person such a family such a Kingdome shall become a desolation Ier. 22. 5. If we refuse when God calls God will refuse when we aske and will marke when our misery and calamity is upon us Pro. 24. 26. At this time God offers to make a Covenant with us And now he calls from heaven by his Judgements and by his mercies the distractions miseries and calamities of the three Kingdomes cry to us to make our peace with God who is offended for our sinnes when Israel was in capitvity and bondage seaventy yeares for their breach of Covenant with God they were not established untill they renewed their Covenant with God Therefore Ezra prayed and confessed the sinnes of the people with weeping and casting himselfe downe before the house of God the place of covenant and there assembled out of Israel a very great Congregation of men and women and children for the people wept very sore Ezra 10. 1. Now Shechaniah and Ezra consult together and with confidence beleeve that notwithstandig all their sinnes there was hope in Israel concerning this thing Therefore they conclude to make a Covenant with God and Ezra made the chiefe Priests the Levites and all Israel to sweare and they all sware verse 2. 3. 5. Nor was this a new thing to them but that which Moses did by Gods command as we have shewed and after him Ioshua as you may read Ioshua 24. 25. Now the examples of Gods people ought to be our rule especially in those things that are commanded by God himselfe but to covenant with God hath beene the frequent practise of Gods people commanded by God and alwayes with promise and president of acceptance When the Prophet Azariah being stirred up by the Spirit of God to move Asa Iudah and Benjamin to seek the Lord by entring into a covenant tells them The Lord is with you while yee be with him and if ye seeke him he will be found of you but if yee forsake him he will forsake you 2. 1 5. 2. Now to breake Covenant with God or to refuse to make a Covenant with God is all one and is no other then to forsake God it is the Lords owne expression Deut. 31. 16. They will forsake me and breake my Covenant which I have striken with them and what then Then my anger shall be kindled and I will forsake them that is I will hide my face take away my divine presence of protection from them vers. 17. See the example of this 2 King 17. 15. they rejected his Statutes and brake his Covenant What followes see vers. 18. Therefore the Lord was angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight c. Now when a people have broken covenant with God and caused God to depart from them the sure way to find God againe is to seeke him by renewing the covenant else we quite cast him off and then he will cast us off for ever 1 Chron. 28. 9. In the time of King Asa when by the sins and Idolatry of his fathers Israel had beene a long season without the true God and without a teaching Priest and without Law So that there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in but great vexations were upon all the Inhabitants of the Country Yet in all this trouble when they turned to the Lord their God and sought him he was found of them But how did they seeke him see the place 2 Chron. 15. 12. They entred into a Covenant to seeke the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soule and vers. 14 They Sware unto the Lord with a loud voyce and with shouting all Judah reioyced at the Oath for they had sworn with all their heart and sought him with their whole desire and he was found of them and the Lord gave them rest round about vers. 15. So after the great distractions and bloudy cruelties of Athalia that usurping Queene Ieh●iada the Priest established the Kingdome by making a covenant with the Rulers and Captaines and by a covenant between the Lord the King and the people 2 King 11. 4 and 17. and all the people brake downe the Idolls of Baal In like manner Hezekiah confess●●n the iniquities of his fathers and of the people and that for their sins the wrath of the Lord was upon Judah and Jerusalem they were delivered to wrath and astonishment 2 Chron. 29. 8. 9. For lo our fathers saith he are fallen by the Sword and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this here 's their misery and Hezekiahs confession But what is the remedy see verse 10. Now saith the good King It is in my heart to make a Covenant with the Lord God of Israele Why a Covenant That his fierce wrath may turne away from us So he sets upon the worke and puts the Service of the house of the Lord in order that is Reformed Religion and Hezekiah rejoyced and all the people that God had so prepared the people thus to seeke God For saith the Text the thing was done suddenly vers. 35. 36. The like did I●s●●h when he had heard the words of the Law read and considered it he rent his clothes because of the wrath of God for not doing according to that Law therefore he sends to the Prophetesse Huldah to aske counsell who denounced evill against the Inhabitants because they had forsaken God and served Idolls Then Josiah gathered all Judah and Jerusalem and made a Covenant before the Lord to walke after the Lord and to keepe his Commandements c. 2

THE THREE KINGDOMES HEALING-PLAISTER OR The solemne Covenant of Reformation and Defence explained Wherein is shewed the Authority Antiquity and Use of an Holy Covenant the occasions moving to it and the ends in doing it the necessity of it at this time for diverse Reasons herein expressed Also a full explanation of each Article of the Covenant to the satisfaction of all shewing the benefit that may redound by it viz. Gods Protection and Blessing to heale our miseries and establish truth in Religion Peace and lasting Happinesse to the three Kingdomes Likewise shewing the Danger of Refusing it and Gods curse upon us if wee enter into it deceitfully Come let us joyne our selves to the Lord in a perpetuall Covenant that shall not be forgotten Jer. 50. 5. But yee have departed out of the way yee have corrupted the Covenant saith the Lord therefore also have I made you contemptible and base before all the people Mal. 2. 8 9. And I will bring the sword upon you that shall avenge the quarrell of my Covenant Levit. 26. 25. Thus saith the Lord cursed be the Man that obeyeth not the words of this Covenant Jer. 11. 3. Imprimatur Ja. Cranford By G. S. Gent. London Printed for Francis Coles in the Old-Bailey 1643. THE THREE KINGDOMES HEALING-PLAISTER I Lately sent into the World a Treatise Intituled Great Brittaines Misery with the causes and cure Which I published not so much to shew the misery For that all men feele as to shew the causes of it and the meanes to cure it And now that the cure may be full God by the worke of his Providence hath commended one ingredient more that nothing may be wanting except we be wanting to our selves We all desire a healing But behold increase of misery and why because we have not sought the right cure Wee have beleeved lyes forged lyes to our selves ●s Job speakes we have sought to Physitians of no value Job 13. 4. trusted to lying vanities that is to outward things Vaine things that cannot profit nor deliver 1 Sam. 12. 21. but we have not returned to him that smiteth us neither ●ought the Lord of hostes Esay 9. 13. Therefore God hath plagued us seven times more as is threatned Levit. 26. 28. The harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not saved Jer. 8. 20. Not because there is no balme in Gilead nor because there is not a Skilfull Physician there but because we have rejected or neglected the true Plaister we have not yet gon up to Gilead to use that soveraign balme no● applyed our selves to the healing Physician Jer. 40. 11. We are as sheepe gon astray and have not heard the voyce of the Shepheard Nor returned to the Shepheard and Bishop of our soules 1 P●t. 2. 25. God hath smitten us that he might bind us up Hose 6. 1. bu● we have not returned to him We have beene perfidious and broken his Covenant which he hath commanded to performe De●t. 4. 13. and have made covenants and leagues with Idolaters contrary to Gods command Exod 32. 12. therefore the Sword doth dev ure and our misery increaseth as is threatned Levit 26. 25. I will avenge the quarrell of my Covenant Now it God have a quarrell against us for the breach of his Covenant it concernes us to seeke to God and to intreat to renew our covenant with him againe If we will confesse our iniquities and that our uncircumcised hearts be humbled God will remember his Covenant which he made with our fathers and will accept of us and heale our ●and L●vi● 26. 40. c. By our sins we have cast off God and have cherished Idolatry which we should have destroyed therefore God seemeth to cast us off and give us into the hands of Idolaters When Israel ●h●se new gods then was War in the gates Judg. 5. 8. When they forsooke the Lord and worshipped Baal and Ashtaroth he delivered them into the hands of spoylers that spoyled them c. Iudg. 2. 13. 14. God hath done thus by us at this day for the sin of Idolatry yet God Almighty who in the midst of judgement remembers mercy notwithstanding our rebellions hath at this day offered to enter againe into Covenant with ●● to renew the covenant with us which he made with our fathers that we might be reconciled to him he as it were calls upon us from Heaven to gather our selves together and to enter into covenant with him that he may be our God and our protector to defend us and to heale our misery Th●s God by Moses exhorted the Israelites after their many revolts to renew their covenant with God that yee may saith he prosper in all that yee doe Deut. 29. 1. 10. and the people stood all before the Lord the Captaines Elders Officers with their wives and little ones to enter into covenant with the Lord and into his Oath that he may establish thee to day for a people to himselfe and that hee may be unto th●e a God as he hath said unto thee and as he hath Sworn to thy fathers vers. 11. 12. 13. Now this extended farther then to the people of Israel to those that were not then present vers. 15. When God chose our father Abraham from out of the Idolatrous families he made a Covenant with him and not with him alone but with his seed it was an everlasting Covenant to his seed whether Jewes or Gentiles all that are of his Faith that walke in his steps have right in that Covenant Rom. 4. 12. 13. Covenants are of two sorts civill or religious that which I call civill is betweene man and man When men bind themselves by covenant or Oath before God to performe promises and fidelity one to other such was the covenant betweene Abraham and Abimelech Gen. 21. 27. and betweene Isaac and Abimelech Gen. 26. 28. so betweene Jacob and Laban Gen. 31. 44. and betweene David and Jonathan 1 Sam. 23. 18. these are Covenants made before God who is called to witnesse of the integrity uprightnesse of heart in the perform●nce of all promises sworne unto and such a Covenant is made betweene the Kings of England and the commons to maintaine their Lawes and Liberty of which God is Judge c. That which I call a religious Convenant is a Divine and sacred Ordinance of God made before God or with God it is an Ordinance as is everlasting as well under the Gospell as under the Law God himselfe was the author of it It is as ancient as man and of use as long as men indure so long as fidelity is to be cherished among men and so long as men must be conformable to Gods will which is for ever so long is there holy use of covenanting Now this Covenant for Reformation and defence by the especiall providence of God appointed by the Soveraigne authority of Parliament containeth in it the condition of the Civill and of the religious Covenant

mans sins We promise and professe before God and the world that we unfainedly desire to bee sorry for our owne sins and to be humbled for them and for the sins of others this is but duty Ier. 13. 18. and Ier. 9 1. Holy David did thus I beheld the transgressors and was grieved Psal 119. 158. and good reason Because he that covereth his sins shall not prosper but he that confesseth forsaketh them shall find mercy Pro. 25. 13. Therefore we likewise promise to endeavour t● forsake our sins and to amend our lives and endeavour to reforme others that all may be mended by every ones mending one especially those that are under our power and charge it is a duty expressely commanded to all Levit. 19. 17. Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin to lye upon him Now this which the Prophet Moses calleth rebuking the Apostle Paul calleth admonition admonish him as a Brother 2 Thessa. 3 15. ult. But because we see Gods judgments abroad in the world for sin and are sorely at this day upon us by the Sword of mercilesse men by which God avengeth the quarrell of his Covenant threatned Levit. 26. 25. We humbly submit to his will and confesse that God hath punished us les●e then our iniquities deserve as the Church hath done in the like case Ezra 9. 13. And therefore renew our Covenant with ou● God which is in effect but the same we promised at the Sacrament of Baptisme and in his presence who is the searcher of all hearts swear to endeavour to performe all that he commandeth us so far as God by his holy Spirit shall enable us for without him we can doe nothing Joh. 15. 5. except he blesse our endeavours and our proccedings with successe we must give all the glory to God both of his judgements and of his mercies and now while his judgements are abroad in the world we the Inhabitants of the earth must learne righteousnesse as in Esay 26. 9. thus much for the matter of the Covenant Secondly consider the authority commanding it First it is Gods command Deut. ●9 1. Secondly the Parliament the highest Court of Magistracy of Soveraigne authority and the representative body of the Kingdom who have with the hazard of their owne live● and all else that is theirs couragiously stood for God and the maintainance of our rights and doe joyntly sweare with us never to forsake us nor betray the trust we have committed to them as some have per●idiously done whose Treachery is now manifest yea by the same authority and advice of the whole Kingdom of Scotland approved entred into by the Assemblies of Divines in both Kingdomes Reverend Learned Orthodox and godly men Withall consider the tender love and good affections of these our Worthies commanding in that they have not layd such a penalty upon us if in case any should through ignorance make scruple as was layd upon the people in Asas time 2 Chron. 15. 13. That whosoever would not by entring into Covenant seeke the Lord should be put to death whether great or small man or woman because as they desire and as our necessity requires they beeleeve that every one that desires a blessing from God will thus seeke him and will freely and willingly enter into this Covenant for that is indeed acceptable to God he is well pleased and onely delighteth in such as yeeld him willing obedience therfore we should be so much the more stirred up in Zeal to the thing with thankfulnesse to God and to our Worthies for such an opportunity Thirdly consider the end why we are by those our Worthies commanded to enter into this Covenant Their first end is for the glory of God to seeke God to set up and to maintaine the true Protestant Religion and therefore have Intituled it A Covenant for Reformation and defence First of Religion Secondly to maintaine the Person Honour and happinesse of the King Thirdly the Peace and safety of the three Kingdoms marke it you shall see all tends to one or all these three things to seeke God with unanimous consent to extirpate Popery Heresie Schismes and prophanesse set up good men in place of authority that evill men may be put out that so the Kingdomes may bee preserved and the throne established in righteousnesse Prov. 25. 5. and all this every Soule is bound to endeavour they that consent not to this are to be esteemed perfidious both to God and to the Kingdoms worthy according to the edict of Asa to be put to death of what condition soever they be God is now about a great worke in the world and doubtlesse will reforme his Churches gather his elect together destroy that man of sin and cut in peeces those men that say of Christ this man shall not raigne over us And although Gods people for a little space of time must drinke of the cup of his anger and passe through the fiery tryalls yet it is but for a moment and Gods anger will passe over I say 26. 20. And then all his enemies shall drinke the ●ull wine-cup of his fury Jer. 26. 15. and all the wicked of the earth shall drinke the dregs thereof Psal. 57. 8. I dare not take upon me to set the time for it is not for us to know the times and seasons which the father hath put in his owne hands Act. 1. 7. But Scriptures compared with these late times assure me the time is ●igh even at hand And although God will in his owne time freely accomplish his owne worke yet he will be sought unto by us Thus saith the Lord I will for all this be enquired of by the house of Israel Eze. 36. 37. And those that seeke him not this way for ought I know or can say shall be accounted as those on whom his fury shal be powred Fourthly consider the benefit that will redound to all and every one that willingly and joyfully enters into this covenant if with honest humbled hearts they desire to seeke God they shal surely find God and so find him as that he will be their God to protect save and blesse them as is promised If yee seek him he will be found of you c. if wee endeavour to walke perfectly before him for the time to come he will be our God al-sufficient and will blesse us exceedingly Gen. 17. 1. ● He will blesse us with truth and peace in all the three Kingdomes so that we shall lye down and none shall make us af●aid Levit. 26. 6. He will chase our enemies and they shall fall before us by the Sword vers. 7. We shall be blessed in the City blessed in the field blessed in the fruit of the body and in the fruit of the ground the increase of our kine and the flockes of our sh●epe blessed in our basket and in our store● blessed shall we be when we come in and blessed shall we be when