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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49349	The loyall convenanter, or, Peace & truth revived being certaine seasonable considerations presented to the whole kingdome in generall, but more particularly intended for that famous and honourable city of London, and therein in a more peculiar manner all those citizens, as also all other persons whereoever, who have taken the Solemn league and covenant.	Rexophilus Londinatus Christianus Protestans.	1648 (1648)	Wing L3344; ESTC R25487	49,454	81

they would follow the often reiterated advice of Reverend Judge Jenkens to restore His Majesty to His Throne and procure a gracious Pardon from Him with an all-burying Act of Oblivion O that men would in this their day perceive those wayes wich do lead to Peace and Truth and walk therein before they be hidden from their eyes And whereas the happinesse of a blessed Peace between these Kingdomes 5. Article Covenant that is by the union of the three Kingdomes under One King professing the truth of Religion governing by His established Law denyed in former times to our Progenitours is by the providence of God granted unto us c. So that now we are no more Aliens nay Neighbours but Brethren not envying one anothers happinesse and prosperity being not infested with offensive or defensive Acts of hostility upon either of our borders but reciprocally endeavouring one anothers peace and welfare mutually joying in the enjoyment of one anothers happinesse Let each of us endeavour that the Kingdomes may remaine in such a firme peace and union that is by our mutuall obedience to our Soveraigne and the Laws of each respective Nation and in brotherly love one towards another Amen O heavenly Father Give us to this end powerfull endeavours to make good our Covenant accordingly And may Justice be done to the wilfull opposers in manner expressed in the precedent Article We shall also according to our places in this common cause of Religion 6. Article Covenant Liberty and peace of the Kingdomes assist and defend by all lawfull meanes all those that enter into this League and Covenant c. nor shall we make defection to the contrary part but shall oppose and hinder That is all such who envying our blessed union thus religiously lawfully cemented shal oppose us and it endeavouring by heretical erroneous divulged positions to dishonour God and robbe him of his glory by seditious doctrines to infuse into the people a disloyal spirit of Treason and Rebellion against the Kings Majesty His heires and successours of disobedience to Him and His lawfull Commands whereby His honour is despised the generall good of the Kingdomes not onely neglected out much endangered all which we shall do as in the sight of God And because these Kingdomes are guilty of many sins against God and his Son Christ Jesus as by our present distractions dangers too manifestly appeareth Let us all pray that the God of heaven and earth would give us his grace of humiliation for our own particular the general sins of this Nation especially that we have not valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel nor received Christ into our hearts conforming our lives and actions to his practice and precept but rather have made use of the liberty and freedome which we had by Christ from the rigorous exaction and condemning power of the Law Gal. 5.13 as an occasion to neglect and altogether to deny our obedience to the Law as the rule of direction Notwithstanding that thou who art truth it self hast told us that the end of thy comming was to fulfill and not to destroy the Law 5 Mat. 17. Neverthelesse we despise it running madly into sin as an horse rusheth into the battaile Let us further pray that God would bestow upon us his grace of assistance whereby we may be enabled to amend our lives to performe all holy actions required by himselfe to himself according to his revealed will all our duties towards Men according to their severall degrees and places Honour and obedience to the King as Supreame to whom they primarily belong to all subordinate Magistrates as rivelets streaming from him the Spring Forgiving all our enemies persecutors and slanderers praying God who hath the hearts of all men at command winding them which way he please as he doth the Rivers of water to pardon their sins and turne their hearts and cause us to live in love peace and charity one with another Thus let us shew an example of a reall reformation that the Lord may turne away his wrath and heavy indignation and restore truth and peace to these Churches and Kingdoms which God out of his infinite mercy grant Amen Amen To draw to a conclusion I shall by way of a briefe recollection propound some few questions to my poor deceived Country-men which their owne knowledge can answer Had the irregular faction of the two Houses intended as they only pretended a reformation of some errours which perhaps like Cobwebs in an uninhabited house were growne through too much security a crime incident to an uninterrupted peace in Kingdomes they might have been swep't downe with the milde beesome of Instruction and care taken to prevent the like for future and needed not to have pull'd downe the building to take them away Did ever His Majesty in all His transaction by His Messages and Declarations since these unhappy times propose any new thing for the inlargement of His owne Prerogative or derogatory to the Law of the Land and more particularly that part thereof which concerneth the Subjects Liberty Did the King Patronize any Instruments who ranne formerly beyond the just bounds of the Law from condigne punishment Did He ever practice Popery truely so called or propose any thing that to the most jealous and suspicious thoughts might in after-times have occasioned the introduction thereof Or did he ever administer the least ground to fear his recidivation from the Protestant Religion but rather hath evidenced the contrary by His Practice Proclamations Declarations and Commands Did not His Majesty ever first send Messages of Peace and reconciliation Vid. all His Messages Col. Parl. Ordin Wooing His Subjects to the enjoyment of their owne Tranquility and happinesse On the contrary have not the irregular faction of the two Houses notwithstanding their pretences of Religion and Law subverted the ancient Law and Liberty of our Nation and defamed the Religion established abrogating its formes of Worship This will appear if you consider That in all their addresses though pretending Peace they never endeavoured a reconciliation between His Majesty and themselves in such a manner whereby a mutuall satisfaction and security might have been given and received as it is requisite between two differing parties but they must have all giving His Majesty no satisction at all Did they ever command the practice of the Religion and formes of worship established notwithstanding their pretended maintenance thereof or did they ever so much as consult about preservation thereof but on the contrary have suffered heresies Schismaticall opinions openly to be Preached and Printed contrary to the same Government Did not His Majesty yeild to the setling of the Presbyterian Government for three years in a Legall manner as flowing from the power of the Crowne But this would not satisfie They like strange gamesters fling at all they must have totaliter totum Therefore consider hereof you have againe the result of the designe Epitomized Nolunt hunc

THE LOYALL COVENANTER OR Peace Truth revived BEING Certaine seasonable Considerations presented to the whole Kingdome in generall But more particularly intended for that Famous and Honourable City of London and therein in a more peculiar manner all those Citizens As also All other Persons wheresoever who have taken the Solemn LEAGUE and COVENANT Printed in the Yeare 1648. To all true-hearted Englishmen of what degree or qualitie soever especially to each particular Citizen of London Courteous and friendly Reader FOr so my believing charitie perswadeth me to style you although my mean and inconsiderable deserts cannot hope to lay claim to the title As it is a certaine truth for our comfort that man's passive extremitie is Gods active opportunitie deliverance then stepping in when in our apprehensions were are past hopes of being delivered so it is as necessary a truth to be practised that when Kingdomes Cities Families or friends are most passive under the extremitie of accumulative miseries threatning ruine and desolation then to be most active in our assistance● counsell and to our power deliverance Such like thoughts as these possessing me in these unhappiest of unhappy times wherein a generally-feared destruction hangeth over our heads like a sharp pointed sword only by a small thread perswaded me with the poore widow my abilities not being able to bestow more to cast in this my following mite and if it shall though in it selfe worthlesse prove by the concurring operation of Gods Spirit upon the hearts of men in the least manner instrumentally contributary to the reformation of some information of others and a desired restoration of the whole Kingdome in generall the City of London in particular where I received my first birth and being to their ancient honour and former truth and peace return your thankes to the Lord of heaven and earth the fountaine of all Meroies and pray for the Eternall happinesse of Your reall friend Country-man and fellow Citizen Rexophilus Londinatus Christianus Protestans Maii prim 1648. Ne inutilis olim vixisse videar 25 Proverbs 11. A word spoken in season is like apples of Gold in pictures of Silver 122 Psalme 8. For my brethren and companions sakes will I now say peace bee within thy walls WHen the Hebrew-tongued bells sadly invite the Charitable assistance of others to a pacification of that rebellious Element Fire Hebrew Letters must bee read backward A Custome in England to ring bels backward when houses are on fire destructively active beyond its legall bounds and a reduction of it to its proper center and due obedience who will not unlesse some whose preventing care is little about their own and carefull pitty lesse imployed about others ruines willingly contribute their quenching paines Nay who except others as miserably destitute of honesty as wealth whose strangely malicious mindes repine at the fruitfull industry smiling prosperity of others and whose irregular expectations hope to supply the defect of their own wealth and boy up their almost irrecoverably sunk estates by a generally concurring destruction will not subscribe to a voluntary demolition of their proper and more peculiar buildings only to anticipate the devastation of others by that mercilesse raging tyrant When the angry windes begin to vent their spleen and the passive surges which not long before were united into one only unsurrowed face like slaves forced to a degeneration are compelled by those powerfully Commanding Masters into high swelling frowns and deep-furrowed wrinkles thereby menacing ruine to all floating travellers in that uncertain watery region Will not then all obliged and resolved guides Vela moderantes p●r aequoris undas unlesse some who with too much ease can change ingagements of publike preservation into permissive i● not active resolutions of desolation or others whose winding limbs embarqued on gainfull private hopes or aguish losing feats can comply with every rouling wave thereby in vain expecting in a Fly-boat of neutralitie to swim safely to a self-securing shore will not all except such consult a prevention of such a universally-threaten'd destruction My dearest Country-men England hoc momento temporis O that Fame could give my Pen the lye ●●ut alas alas experience already hath and still doth afford us too too certain grounds evidencing its truth is at this very day become a sad paralell of these preceding lines England not long since famous abroad happy at home even beyond si foelicitatem novorit desire of additionall happinesse for its united domestick structures I mean its Monarchicall government compacted into so sweetly agreeing * King Lords and Commons in Parliament disproportion●d proportion that setting aside those Concomitantes Regnorum devastatores those destroyers of men and Kingdomes Ambition Envy and Sedition which blind the judgements sight enforcing it to a partiall if not an envious construction of the best things the most prying eye could not discern the * Poorest men humblest stone remedilesly press'd by an oppressing * Rich persons Superiour or highest advanced pinacle proudly scorning inferiour subjected materialls without a check from the master builder I mean the established law whose enlivener fonsquerigo is our Soveraigne Lord King Charles c. Sine quo nulla nova fuit est Angliâ lexque erit This England quis non talia scribendo lachrymarum flumina mittet Jeremiah 9. chap. 1. v. who can forbeare wishing with the Prophet That his head were full of water and his eyes a fountain of tears to weep for his Native Country by the beginning Sparcks of an unfortunate Northern fire-brand strange it is that so cold and almost benumming a climate should yield such nimbly-devouring fire intermixing in its consuming progresse with unnaturally connaturalizing materialls by degrees grown almost into one entire flame This winged Vessell truly styled Europ's Soveraigne whose swelling sayles not long since were filled even to envy and admiration of all round about her by long continuing uninterrupted succesfull gales At last by the enforcement of rigid necessitie justly steering its powerfully commanding course for its command proceeded from a * Commission from his Majestie Just power neere the * Scotland ☽ alidonian waters met with some surly opposing gusts high-working ambitious and rebellious waves which not wanting a concurring assistance and incouragement from other mutinous spirits strange it is that children of the same wombe should rend the very bowels of their naturall parent upon the unreasonable invitation of aliens accompanying the same Fleet with this Royall Pilot denyed to strike sayle or expresse obedience to his lawfull commands Which strange and unnaturall opposition increasing like snow roul'd from place to place even to a monstrous heap by the senslesly assisting and furiously active hands of such persons was soon howsoever dissolved by the favourable breath and gracious condescentions beyond expectation of the Royall Cōmander himself as it seemed having a brest more affected with the losse of any under his command however in their obedience repugnant although I cannot