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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35038	Analepsis, or, Saint Peters bonds abide for rhetorick worketh no release, is evidenced in a serious and sober consideration of Dr. John Gauden's sense and solution of the Solemn League and Covenant : so far as it relates to the government of the church by episcopacy / by Zech. Crofton.	Crofton, Zachary, 1625 or 6-1672.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6984; ESTC R7749	30,761	39

and solemn Declaration it shall stand and be established But Sir suppose the Dr. can pull down this defence and manage his battery so as to make a breach on the Covenant yet before he enter I must sound a parlee with him and desire him to tell us whether the quod fieri non debuit factum valet pleaded to defend the wanton Baptisme of Children and hasty Baptisme of Women be not more really pleadable in our case To make the worst of it a tumultuous Assembly convene and come before us with sword and Scepter and say they are a Parliament and have lawful constant and compleat authority to command us and therefore will put an Oath and Covenant upon us and silly inconsiderate we are not so well skill'd in politicks or acquainted with the constitutions of our Countrey to detect their fallacy but think all authority is within those walls and obedience must be yielded to what is there commanded and so we are beguiled into the Oath May we thence cry out A Cheat and so cast off the Covenant and conclude it cannot binde I doubt such Doctrine embraced will expose us to a three yeares Famine His first battery was so fiercely made that it recoileth with a more than ordinary Rumour and makes him enforce it pa. 6. with an I might Eccho as indeed he hath for I find no certain sound in what he saith the violence and noise of those times in which it was hatched in England and brought forth by the midwifry of tumults and Armies of engaged yea enraged parties and factions All which it is well known was not so great or loud but that the Lords and Commons in Parliament the Commissioners of the Kirk and Kingdom of Scotland Violence of times with an Assembly of Grave and Learned Divines did after Solemn Humiliation and seeking God serious consultation and sober debates digest and determine the Covenant and both matter and form doth bespeak it to have been no rash or preposterous product of fancy But suppose the worst will the violence of the times put a nullity and non-obligation on the Oath how comes the sentence to be so severe against Zedekiah He hath despised the Oath and broken the Covenant he shall not escape Ezek. 17. 18. Was not this Oath extorted by Armies without and tumults within and yet is it so austerely binding whatever Turks Papists or Politicians say shall a Christian and Protestant suggest a nullity of the Oath because of the violence of the times in which it was taken His next suggestion is a sound no less uncertain he saith he might urge the novelty and partiality of the Covenant as to the English Laws and Genius His third indirect answer to the Covenant That he might and might when he hath urged it explain it for the matter of it is neither new nor partial it hath been often heard and endeavoured in England in the very point of Episcopacy the removal of Englands Hierarchy hath been sued for from * Wi●ness Dr. White 's Epistle to Lawde before his Treatise of the Sabbath Queen Elizabeths time downward unto this day and the Covenant secures all Interests without partiality his surmise of forraign influence inv●ntion and obtrusion calls for proof and then it will but little relieve him for an Oath enforced by forraign Con●uest or couzenage new to the Nation and contrary to its Laws binds the conscience and the supposed contrariety of the Law is of no force to them who conclude a power in the Parliament to put a period to those Laws and a Solemn Oath or Covenant sworne by the Legislators and by them put on the people seem to be the most full discharge of all seeming-contrary Laws that can be imagined especially when the Royal assent is publiquely given to it His fourth suggestion in his indirect answer He proceeds It might seem odious to reflect upon the Covenant as to the effects and unblest consequences which like black shadows have attended its appearing and prevailing in England what havocks improsperities c. as before we have noted This Reflection I confess cannot but seem odious but not to the Covenant unless these sad effects and unblest consequences be found to attend it as its proper brood and natural issue not accidental sequels produced by its genuine tendency to them not by wicked mens reluctancy to order and piety or perfidy as to what they had covenanted but the odium will of its own accord reflect on him who is a Covenanter and yet exposeth his Solemn League and Covenant to vulgar scorn and contempt who is a man of justice and sobriety and yet calumniateth the Covenant with those sad effects which had their being and progress before the Covenant it self Sure he dreams that seeth the shadow before the substance is in being and who is a Divine detesting the plea of success as the Judge or Rule of any cause and yet maketh it the measure of the Solemn League and Covenant Nor can his next suggestion be considered unto the encrease of his credit 5th Suggestion in his indirect answer p. 7. in which he tells us He will not insist on the bafflings of the Covenant before it was adult or many yeares old how it was soon made a Nehushtan and reduced to nothing by counter and cross engagements after it had served as one of the great Rocks for the King's shipwrack and been water'd with the King's blood c. Truly Sir had I been at your Doctors elbow when he wrote this I would have advised him to have been so far from insisting that he should not have inserted this which he calls Baffling of the Covenant For Sir will not every one cry shame that shall hear him say the Covenant was one of the great Rocks which shipwrackt the King and the Covenant was watered with the King's blood Who can consider the King's reluctancy to the Covenant was not so much as inserted into His charge nor once taken notice of by Bradshaw amongst those many reasons by him produced to justifie that most execrable Sentence pronounced against Him Who observeth the Resolves of the Parliament that His Majesties Concessions though He refused the Covenant were satisfactory and that untill the faithful Covenanters were pulled out of the House by military violence and the Band of the Covenant broken by the raging lusts of some proud perjured Apostates there neither was nor could be the least proceeding against His Most Sacred Majesty and yet conclude Him shipwrackt by the Covenant because some that had taken the Covenant did perpetrate that wickedness will any Rules of Justice or Religion charge it on the Covenant because the Covenant was violated by force suppressed by power and slighted by policy was it therefore vacated when by whom or with what Arguments of Right reason or Religion was it ever bafled was not its vigour made visible by the London Ministers Representation and Vindication and its bond on