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A36441	A phenix, or, The Solemn League and Covenant whereunto is annexed : 1. The form and manner of His Majesties coronation in Scotland, with a sermon then preached on that occasion, by Robert Douglas of Edenburgh, II. A declaration of the Kings Majesty to all his loving subjects of the Kingdoms of Scotland, &c. in the yeare 1650, III. The great danger of covenant-breaking, &c., being the substance of a sermon preached by Edm. Calamy, the 14 of Jan., 1645, before the then Lord Mayor of the city of London, Sir Tho. Adams : together with the shieriffs [sic], aldermen, and Common-Councell of the said city : being the day of their taking the Solemn League and Covenant at Michael Basenshaw, London.	Douglas, Robert, 1594-1674.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. Great danger of covenant-breaking.; England and Wales. Sovereign (1660-1685 : Charles II)	1662 (1662)	Wing D2034; ESTC R5271	65,771	176

A PHENIX OR The Solemn LEAGUE and COVENANT Whereunto is annexed I. The Form and manner of His Majesties Coronation in Scotland With a Sermon then preached on that occasion by Robert Douglas of Edenburgh II. A Declaration of the Kings Majesty to all His loving Subjects of the Kingdoms of Scotland c. in the Yeare 1650. III. The great Danger of Covenant-breaking c. Being the substance of a Sermon preached by Edm. Calamy the 14. of Jan. 1645. before the then Lord Mayor of the City of London Sir Tho. Adams together with the Shieriffs Aldermen and Common-councell of the said City being the day of their taking the Solemn League and Covenant at Michael Basenshaw London EDINBVRGH Printed in the year of Covenant-breaking To the Reader Reader THou mayst expect some Reasons by way of Preface why these things thus collected are presented to thy consideration the principall part thereof having been the occasion of so much contest and trouble in these Nations and therefore desired by many it should have been buried in its own ashes But for that things of such publique concernment have been acted by the Heads of these Nations and in so solemn a manner in the presence of Almighty God it cannot so soon be forgotten but ought to be weighed and layd to heart with the good or evil consequences that have or shall accrew thereby it is therefore left to thy serious consideration A solemn League and Covenant For Reformation and defence of Religion the Honour and Happines of the King and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland WE the Noblemen Barons Knights Gentlemen Citizens Burgesses Ministers of the Gospel and Commons of all sorts in the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland by the providence of God living under one King and being of one Reformed Religion having before our Eyes the glory of God and the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord Saviour Jesus Christ the Honour and Happiness of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity and the true Publick Liberty Safety peace of the Kingdoms wherein every ones private condition is included calling to mind the treacherous and bloody Plots Conspiracies Attempts Practices of the Enemies of God against the true Religion and Professors thereof in all places especially in these three Kingdoms ever since the Reformation of Religion and how much their Rage Power and Presumption are of late and at this time increased and exercised whereof the deplorable estate of the Church and Kingdom of Ireland the distressed estate of the Church and Kingdom of England and the dangerous estate of the Church Kingdom of Scotland are present and publick Testimonies We have now at last after other means of Supplication Remonstrance Protestations and Sufferings for the preservation of our Selves and our Religion from utter ruine and destruction according to the commendable practice of these Kingdoms in former times and the example of Gods people in other Nations after mature deliberation resolved and determined to enter into a Mutuall and Solemn League and Covenant wherein we all subscribe and each one of us for himself with our hands lifted up to the most high God do swear 1. THat we shall sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God endeavour in our severall places and callings the preservation of the reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the example of the best Reformed Churches And shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in religion confession of faith form of Church-government Directory for worship and catechising That we and our posterity after us may as brethren live in faith and love and the Lord may delight to dwell in the midst of us 2. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons endeavor the extirpation of popery prelacy that is Church-government by Archbishops Bishops their Chancellors and Commissaries Deans Deans and Chapters Archdeacons and all other Ecclesiasticall Officers depending on that Hierarchy superstition heresie schism prophanness and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of godliness lest we partake in other mens sins and therein be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the three Kingdoms 3. We shall with the same sincerity reality and constancy in our severall vocations endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the rights and priviledges of the parliaments and the Liberties of the kingdomes and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and Authority in the Preservation and Defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdomes that the World may bear witnesse with our Consciences of our Loyalty and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His Majesties just Power and Greatnesse 4. We shall also with all Faithfulnesse endeavour the discovery of all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or evil Instruments by hindering the Reformation of Religion dividing the King from His People or one of the three Kingdomes from another or making any faction or parties among the People contrary to this League and Covenant that they may be brought to publick Tryal and receive condign Punishment as the degree of their Offences shall require or deserve or the Supream Judicatories of both Kingdomes respectively or others having power from them for that effect shall judge convenient 5. And whereas the Happinesse of a blessed Peace between these Kingdomes denied in former times to our Progenitors is by the good Providence of God granted unto us and hath been lately concluded and setled by both the Parliaments we shall each one of us according to our place and interest endeavour that they may remain conjoyned in a firm Peace and Union to all Posterity and that Justice may be done upon the wilfull opposers thereof in manner expressed in the precedent Articles 6. We shall also according to our places and callings in this common cause of Religion Liberty and Peace of the Kingdomes assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant in the maintaining and pursuing thereof and shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terrour to be divided and withdrawn from this blessed Union and Conjunction whether to make defection to the contrary part or to give our selves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause which so much concerneth the glory of God the good of the Kingdomes and the honour of the King but shall all the dayes of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to our power against all lets and impediments whatsoever and what we are not able our selves to suppresse or overcome we shall reveal and make known that it may be timely prevented or removed All

must be carefull of the kingdom which he hath sworn to maintain We have had many of too private a spirit by whom self-interest hath been preferred to the publick It becommeth a king well to be of a publick spirit to care more for the publick then his own interest Senates and States have had Motto's written over the doors of the Meeting-places Over the Senates house at Rome was written Ne quid Republica detrimenti capiat I shall wish this may be written over your Assembly-houses But there is another which I would have written with it Ne quid Ecclesia detrimenti capiat Be carefull of both let not kirk nor State suffer hurt let them go together The best way for standing of a kingdome is a well constitute kirk They deceive kings who make them believe that the Government of the kirk I mean Presbyterial Government cannot sute with Monarchy They sute well it being the Ordinance of Christ rendring to God what is Gods and to Caesar what is Caesars Sir kings who have a tender care of the kirk Isa 41.3 are called Nursing Fathers You would be careful that the Gospel may have free passage through the kingdome and that the Government of the kirk may be preserved intire according to your Solemn Engagement The kirk hath met with many enemies as Papists Prelates Malignants which I passe as known enemies But there are two sorts more who at this time would be carefully looked on 1. Sectaries great enemies to the kirk and to all the Ordinances of Christ and more particularly to Presbyterian Government which they have and would have altogether destroyed A king should set himself against these because they are enemies as well to the king as to the kirk and strive to make both fall together 2. Erastians more dangerous snares to kings than Sectaries because kings can look well enough to these who are against themselves and their power as Sectaries who will have no king But Erastians give more power to kings than they should have and are great enemies to Presbyterial Government For they would make kings believe that there is no Government but the Civil and derived from thence which is a great wrong to the Son of God who hath the Government of the kirk distinct from the Civil yet no wayes prejudicial to it being spiritual and of another nature Christ did put the Magistrate out of suspition that his kingdom was prejudicial to Civil Government affirming My Kingdom is not of this world This Government Christ hath not committed to kings but to the Office-bearers of his house who in regard of civil subjection are under the civil power as well as others but in their spiritual administration they are under Christ who hath not given to any king upon earth the dispensation of spiritual things to his people SIR You are in covenant with God and his people and are obliged to maintain Presbyterial Government as well against Erastians as Sectaries I know this Erastian humour aboundeth at Court It may be some endeavour to make your reproach upon that for which God hath punished your Predecessors Be who he will that medleth with this Government to overturn it it shall be as heavy to him as the burthensome stone to the enemies of the kirk They are cut in pieces who burthen themselves with it Zach. 12. 3. A King in Covenant with the people of God should make much of those who are in Covenant with him having in high estimation the faithful Servants of Christ and the godly people of the Land It is rare to find kings lovers of faithful Ministers and pious people It hath been the fault of our own Kings to persecute the godly 1. Let the King love the Servant● of Christ who speak the truth Evi● Kings are branded with this tha● they contemned the Prophets 2 Chron. 25. when Amaziah had taken the gods of Seir and set them up for his gods a Prophet came to him and reproved him unto whom the King said Who made thee of the King counsel forbear lest thou be smitten This contempt of the Prophets warning is a fore-runner of following destruction Be a careful hearer o● Gods Word take with reproof esteem of it as David did Psal 141.5 An excellent oyl which shall not brea● the head To make much of the faithful Servants of Christ will be an evidence of reality 2. Let the King esteem well o● godly Professors Let Piety be in accompt It is a fault very common that pious men because of their conscientious and strict walking are hated by the Prophane who love to live loosely It is usual with prophane men to labour to bring kings unto a distaste of the godly especially when men who have professed Piety becomes scandalous whereupon they are ready to judge all pious men to be like them and take occasion to speak evil of Piety I fear at this time when men who have been commended for Piety have fallen fouly and betrayed their trust that men will take advantage to speak against the godly of the Land Beware of this for its Satans policy to put piety out of request Let not this move any Fall who will Piety is still the same and pious men will make conscience both of their wayes and trust Remember they are precious in Gods eyes who will not suffer men to despise them without their reward Sir let not your heart be from the godly in the Land whatever hath fain out at this time I dare affirm that there are very many really godly men who by their prayers are supporting your Throne 4. A king should be carefull whom he putteth in places of trust as a main thing for the good of the kingdome It is a Maxime that Trust should not be put in their hands who have oppressed the people or have betrayed their trust There is a passage in story meet for this purpose One Septimius Arabmus a man famous or rather infamous for Oppression was put out of the Senate but re-admitted About this time Alexander Severus being chosen to the Empire the Senators did entertain him with publick salutations and congratulations Severus espying Arabinus amongst the Senators cryed O Numina Arabinus non solum vivit sed in Senatum venit Ah! Arabinus not onely liveth but he is in the Senate Out of just indignation he could not endure to see him As all are not meet for places of trust in Judicatures so all are not meet for places of trust in Armies Men would be chosen who are godly and able for the charge But there are some who are not meet for trust 1. They who are godly but have no skil nor ability for the place a man may be a truly godly man who is not fit for such a place and no wrong is done to him nor to godliness when the place is denied to him I wonder how a godly man can take upon him a place whereof he hath no skill 2. They who have neither skill nor courage are

strongest arguments to perswade the world to believe in Christ John 17.21 Is it not the chief desire of the holy Apostles that we should all speak the same things and that their should be no divisions amongst us c. 1 Cor. 1.10 Phil. 2.1 2 3 c. Is not unity the happiness of heaven Is it not the happinesse of a City to be at unity within it self Is it not a good and pleasant thing for brethren to dwell together in unity how comes it then to passe that this part of the Covenant is so much forgotten The Lord mind you of it this day And the Lord make this great and famous City a City of holiness and a City at unity within it self For if unity be destroyed purity wil quickly also be destroyd The Church of God is una as well as sancta It is but one church as well as it is a holy church And Jesus Christ gave some to be Apostles c. till we all come to the unity of the faith The goyernment of Christ is appointed for the keeping of his Church in unity as well as purity Those things which God hath joined together let no man put asunder That government which doth not promote unity as well as purity is not the government of Christ Oh the misery of that Kingdome where Church-divisions are nourished and fomented A kingdome or a church divided against it self cannot stand Would it not be a sad thing to see twelve in a family one of them a Presbyterian another an Independent another a Brownist another an Antinomian another an Anabaptist another a Familist another for the Prelatical government another a Seeker another a Papist and the tenth it may be an Atheist the eleventh a Iew the twelth a Turk The Lord in his due time heal our divisions and make you his choice instruments according to your places that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the three Kingdomes Q. But some will say How shall I do to get up my heart to this high pitch that I may be a Covenant-keeper I will propound these three helps 1. Labour to be always mindful of your Covenant according to that text 1 Chron. 15.16 God is always mindful of his Covenant It was the great sin of the people of Israel that they were unmindful of the Covenant Neh. 9.17 They first forgat the Covenant and afterwards did quickly forsake it He that forgets the Covenant must needs be a Covenant-breaker Let us ●herefore remember it and carry it about us as quotidianum argumentum and quotidianum munimentum First let us make a Covenant a daily argument aga●nst all sin and iniquity and when we are tempted to any sin let us say I have sworn to forsake my old iniquities and if I commit this sin I am not only a Commandment-breaker but an Oath-breaker I am perjur'd I have sworn to reform my fami●y and therefore I will not suffer a wicked person to tarry in my family I have sworn against neutrality and indifferency and therefore I will be zealous in Gods cause c. Secondly let us make this Covenant a daily muniment armour of defence to beat back all the fiery darts of the divel When any one tempts thee to promise of preferment to do contrary to thy Covenant or by threatning to ruine thee for the hearty pursuing of thy Covenant here is a ready answer I am sworn to do what I do and if I do otherwise I am a perjur'd wretch This is a wall of brass to resist any dart that shall be shot against thee for well doing according to thy Covenant Famous is the story of Hannibal which he told to King Antiochus when he required aid of him against the Romans When I was nine years old said he my Father carried me to the Altur and made me take an Oath to be an irreconcileable foe to the Romans In pursuance of this Oath I have waged war against them 36 years To keep this Oath I have left my countrey and am come to seek aid at your hands which if you deny I will travell all over the world to find out some enemies to the Roman state Odi odioque sum Romanis If an Oath did so mightily operate in Hannibal let the Oath you are to take this day work as powerful upon you and make your Oath an argument to oppose personal sins and family sins and to oppose Heresie Schisme and all profanenesse and to endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdomes to the nearest conjunction and uniformity c. And let this Oath be armour of proof against all temptations to the contrary And know this one thing that if the Covenant be not a daily argument and muniment against sin it will be●ome upon your breaking of it quotidianum testimonium aeternum opprobrium A daily witnesse against you as the book of the law was Deut. 31.26 and an everlasting shame reproach unto you yours 2. Let us have high thoughts of the Covenant Actions and affections follow our apprehensions If thy judgement be beleapred with a corrupt opinion about the Covenant thy affections and actions will quickly be beleapred also And therefore you ought to endeavour according to your places that nothing be spoken or written that may tend to the prejudice of the covenant 3. You must take heed of the cursed sinne of self-love which is placed in the fore-front as the cause of all the Catalogue of sins here named because men ar●●e●s of themselves therefore they are covetous c. and therefore they are covenant-breakers A self-seeker cannot be a covenant-breaker this is a sin that you must hate as the very gates of hell And this is the second sin that I promised in the beginning of my Sermon to speak on but the time and your other occasions will not permit There is a natural self-love and a divine self-love and a sinful self-love This sinful self-love is when we make our selves the last end of all our actions when we so love our selves as to love no man but our selves according to the Proverb Every man for himself c. when we pretend God and his glory and the common good but intend our selves and our own private gain and interest when we serve God upon politique designes Of this sinful self-love the Apostle speaks Phil. 2.21 For all seek their own and not the things of Jesus Christ And if we had a window to look into the hearts of most people we should find their hearts made up all of this Idolatrous self-love All their designes are for to promote themselves They monopolize and ingrosse all to themselves as if made for themselves Where his sinful self-love dwels there dwels no love to God no love to thy brother no love to Church nor State This sinful self-love is the Caterpillar that destroyeth Church Commonwealth It is from this sinful self-love that the publique affairs drive on so heavily and that Church-government is not setled that our Covenant is so much neglected Of this sin I cannot now speak but when God shall offer opportunity I shall endeavour to uncase i●●or you In the mean time the Lord give you grace to hate it as hell it self F●●●●

which we shall do as in the sight of God And because these Kingdomes are guilty of many sins and provocations against God and his Son Jesus Christ as is too manifest by our present distresses and dangers the fruits thereof We professe and declare before God and the world our unfained desire to be humbled for our own sins and for the sins of these Kingdomes especially that we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that we have not laboured for the purity and power thereof and that we have not endeavoured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walk worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of our sins and transgressions so much abounding amongst us and our true and unfained purpose desire and endeavour for our selves and all others under our power and charge both in publick and in private in all duties we owe to God and Man to amend our lives and each one to go before another in the example of a real Reformation that the Lord may turn away his wrath and heavy indignation and establish these Churches and Kingdomes in truth and peace And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God the Searcher of all hearts with a true intention to perform the same as we shall answer at the great Day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed Most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his Holy Spirit for this end and to blesse our desires and proceedings with such successe as may be deliverance and safety to his people and encouragement to other Christian Churches groaning under or in danger of the yoak of Antichristian tyranny to joyn in the same or like Association and Covonant to the glory of God the enlargement of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ and the peace and tranquility of Christian Kingdomes and Common-wealths Wil. Lenthal Speaker Beuchamp St. John Gilbert Gerrard Walter Earle James Cambel Thomas Cheeke Robert Nicholas Benjamin Rudyard John Gurdon Robert Harley Francis Knollis Edward Master John White Anthony Sapley Dennis Bond Lawrence Whitaker Michael Noble ●ere Hoby Richard Barwis Edward Baynton William Cawley John Moyle John Pyne George Searle Henry Vane senior Nevil Pool John Young Henry Herbert Thomas Sandys William Iesson Philip L. Herbert Thomas Bartington Martin Lumley John Trevor Francis Godolphin Thomas Arundell Edward Stephens Gilbert Piekering John Greve Oliver Cromwell Henry Vane junior William Cage Richard Erisey Philip L. Lisle Will. Heveningham Isaac Pennington Richard Cresheld Thomas Pelham Thomas Parker John Leigh John Harris Augustin Skinner John Venn William Strickland John Franklin Samuel Brown Robert Scawen Roger Hill John Button John Meyrick Ambrose Brown Richard Winn Edward Owner Charles Pym Charles L. Cranborn Ben. Weston Dudley North John Nut John Corbet Roger Burgoyne Peter Temple Benjamin Valentine Thomas Walsingham Oliver Luke William Alenson Humphrey Salwey Richard Moor William Ashurst Thomas Moor Thomas Fountain William Ellys Henry Shelley Rich. Shuttleworth Henry Ludlow George Gallop Robert Wallop Arthur Hesilrige Oliver Saint-John Thomas Grantham Francis Barnham Will. L. Fitz Williams Edmund Dunch Henry Mildmay Hugh Rogers Thomas Hatcher John Wray Simonds D'Ewes Anthony Bedingfield John Ashe William L. Munson Martin Lister Robert Goodwin Edward Thomas Henry Lucas Miles Corbet Philip Smith Cornelius Holland William Spurflowe John Lowry Peter Wentworth Henry Chomley Philip Stapleton William Pierrepoint Roger North Alexander Popham Thomas Hodges John Maynard Samuel Vassal Anthony Irby John Clotworthy John Br●●●●lme Richard Jervoyse John Blackiston Walter Long John Rolle Robert Jennor John Waddon William Masham John Lisle Edmund Fowel Edward Ashe Thomas Pury Richard Whitehead Richard J●nyns Humphrey Tufton Thomas Da●res Thomas Earl John Downes John Goodwyn Francis Drake William Waller Samuel Luke Francis Buller Richard Harman George Buller Arthur Onslowe Richard Wynwood Robert Pye H. L. Gray of Ruthin Richard Knightley John Pym Christoph Yelverton Anthony Nicoll Peter Wroth Robert Reynolds Nat. Barnardiston Henry Heyman William Purefoy Valentine Walton Michael Oldesworth William Wheeler Hall Ravenscroft T. L. Gray of Groby Thomas Middleton Edw. Hungerford Christopher Wrey Richard Lee Herbert Morley Thomas Lane Robert Cecil William Bell Thomas Some Herbot Grimstone Symon Snowe John Nash Herbot Grimstone Ralph Asheton Edward Ayshcoghe John Wylde John Trenchard Thomas Jervoyse Richard Browne William Plaiters Nathaniel Stephens Richard Rose Francis Rous Gilbert Millington Walter Young John Brown John Hippisley Edward Poole Henry Pelham William Hay John Driden Nathaniel Fyennes William Lewis Giles Grene William Lytton John Harvey Edward Dowce William Strode Edmond Prideaux Thomas Hoyle Edward Exton Francis Popham Zouch Tate John Curson Alexander Bence Squire Bence John Selden John Glyn Richard Onslow John Coke Tho. L. Wenman Bulstrode Whitlock George Montague Edward Partheriche Henry Campion VVilliam VVhittaker Denzel Holles Edward VVingate James Fennys Poynings Moore Edward Bisse junior VVilliam Jephson Edward Montague Norton Knatchboll Thomas Eden Edward Baynton Jo. Evelin Jo. Potts Sam. Rolls Ralph Ashton VVilliam Drake Pereg. Pelham VVilliam Brereton Thomas VViddrington Natha Hallows Joh. Bamfield Symond Thelwall Hen. VVorsley Phil. Parker Edw. Boys John Alford Die Veneris 29 Januar. 1644. ORdered by the Commons assembled in Parliament That the Solemn League and Covenant be on every day of Fast and Publique Humiliation publiquely read in every Church and Congregation within the Kingdome And that every Congregation be enjoyned to have one of the said Covenants fairly Printed in a fair Letter in a Table fitted to hang up in some publick place of the Church to be read Hen. Elsynge Cler. Pail Dom. Com. The Form and Order of the CORONATION OF CHARLES II. King of Scotland England France and Ireland As it was acted and done at Scoon the first day of January 1651. By Robert Dowglas Minister at Edinburgh FIrst the Kings Majesty in a Princes Robe was conducted from his Bed-chamber by the Constable on his right hand and the Marshal on his left to the Chamber of presence and there was placed in a Chair under a cloth of State by the Lord of Angus Chamberlain appointed by the King for that day and there after a little repose the Noblemen with the Commissioners of Barons and Burroughs entred the Hall and presented themselves before his Majesty Thereafter the Lord chancellor spoke to the King to this purpose Sir your good Subjects desire You may be crowned as the righteous and lawful Heir of the Crown of this Kingdome that you would maintain Religion as it is presently professed and established conform to the National covenant League and Covenant and according to your Declaration at Dumferling in August last Also that you would be graciously pleased to receive them under Your Highnesse Protection to govern them by the Lawes of the Kingdome and to defend them in their Rights and Liberties by Your Royal power offering themselves in most humble manner to Your Majesty with their vows to bestow land life and what else is in their power for the maintenance of

otherwise That He will seek their good and to the utmost employ His Royal Power That they may be protected and defended against the unjust Violence of all men whatsoever And albeit His Majesty desires to construct well of the Intentions of those in reference to his Majesty who have been active in Council or Arms against the Covenant yet being convinced that it doth conduce for the Honour of God the Good of his Cause and His Own Honour and Happinesse and for the Peace and Safety of these Kingdoms That such be not employed in Places of Power and Trust He doth Declare That He will not employ nor give Commissions to any such until they have not onely taken or renewed the Covenant but also have given sufficient evidences of their Integrity Carriage and Affection to the Work of Reformation and shall be declared capable of Trust by the Parliament of either Kingdom respective And His Majesty upon the same grounds doth hereby recal all Commissions given to any such persons conceiving all such persons will so much tender a good Understanding betwixt Him and His Subjects and the settling and preserving a firm Peace in these kingdoms That they will not grudge nor repine at His Majesties Resolutions and proceedings herein much less upon discontent act any any thing in a divided way unto the raising of New Troubles especially since upon their ●ious and good deportment there is a Regresse left unto them in manner above express'd Sect. 4. And as His Majesty hath given satisfaction to the just and necessary Desires of the kirk and kingdome of Scotland so doth He hereby assure and declare That He is no less willing and desirous to give satisfaction to the just and necessary Desires of his good Subjects in England and Ireland and in token thereof if the Houses of Parliament of England sitting in Freedome shall think fit to present unto Him the propositions of Peace agreed upon by both kingdoms He will not only accord to the same and such alterations there anent as the Houses of Parliament in regard of the Constitution of affairs and the good of his Majesty and His Kingdoms shall judge necessary but do what is further necessary for prosecuting the ends of the Solemne League and Covenant especially in those things which concern the Reformation of the Church of England in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government That not only the Directory of Worship the Confession of Faith and Catechism but also the Propositions and Directory for Church-Government accorded upon by the Synod of Divines at Westminster may be settled and that the Church of England may enjoy the full Liberty and Freedome of all Assembles and power of Kirk-Censures and of all the Ordinances of Jesus Christ according to the Rule of his own Word And that whatsoever is commanded by the God of Heaven may be diligently done for the House of the God of Heaven and whatever heretofore hath been the suggestions of some to him to render his Majesty jealous of His Parliament and of the Servants of God Yet as He hath declared that in Scotland He will hearken to their Counsel and follow their Advice in those things that concern that Kingdome and Kirk So doth he also declare His firm Resolution to manage the Government of the Kingdome of England by the Advice of His Parliament consisting of an House of Lords and of an House of Commons there and in those things that concern Religion to prefer the Counsels of the Ministers of the Gospel to all other counsels whatsoever And that all the world may see how much he tenders the safety of his people and how precious their bloud is in his sight and how desirous he is to recover his Crown and Government in England by peaceable meanes as he doth esteem the service of those who first engaged in the Covenant and have since that time faithfully followed the ends thereof to be Duty to God and Loyalty to Him so is he willing in regard of others who have been involved in these late commotions in England against Religion and Government to passe an Act of Oblivion excepting only some few in that Nation who have been chief Obstructers of the work of Reformation and chief Authors of the change of the Government and of the Murther of his Royal Father Provided That these who are to have the benefit of this Act lay down Armes and return unto the obedience of their lawful Soveraign Sect. 5. The Committee of Estates of the Kingdome and General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland having declared so fully in what concernes the Sectaries and the present Designes Resolutions and Actings of their Army against the Kingdome of Scotland And the same Committee Assembly having sufficiently laid open publick Dangers Duties both upon the right hand the left It is not needful for His Majesty to adde any thing thereunto except That in those things He doth commend and approve th●m and that He Resolves to live and dye with them and his loyal Subjects in prosecution of the Ends of the Covenant Sect. 6. And whereas that prevailing party in England after all their strange Usurpations and insolent Actings in that Land Do not only keep His Majesty from the Government of that Kingdome by force of Armes but also have now invaded the Kingdome of Scotland who have deserved better things at their hands and against whom they have no just quarrel His Majesty doth therefore desire and expect That all his good Subjects in England who are and resolve to be faithful to God and to their King according to the Covenant will lay hold upon such an opportunity and use their utmost endeavours to promote the Covenant and all the ends thereof and to recover and re-establish the Ancient Government of the Kingdome of England under which for many Generations it did flourish in peace and plenty at home and in Reputation abroad and Priviledges of the Parliament and Native and Just Liberty of the People His Majesty desires to assure himself That there doth remain in these so much confidence of their duty to Religion their King and Countrey and so many sparkles of the ancient English Valour which shined so eminently in their Noble Ancestors as will put them on to bestir themselves for the breaking the Yoak of those mens Oppressions from off their Necks Shall men of Conscience and Honour set Religion Liberties and Government at so low a rate as not rather to undergo any hazard before they be thus deprived of them Will not all generous men count any Death more tolerables than to live in servitude all their dayes And will not Posterity blame those who dare attempt nothing for themselves and for their Children in so good a Cause in such an Exigent Whereas if they gather themselves and take courage putting on a Resolution answerable to so Noble and just an Enterprize they shall honour God and gain themselves the Reputation of Pious men worthy Patriots and

are godly and religious Covenants First there are divellish Covenants such as Acts 23.12 and Isaiah 28.15 such as the holy league as it was unjustly called in France against the Hugonites and that of our Gunpowder Traytors in England Now to refuse to take such Covenants is not to make the times perilous but the taking of them makes the times perilous Secondly there are godly Covenants such as Job 31.1 I have made a Covenant with mine eyes why then should I think upon a maid Such as Psal 119. I have sworn I will perform it that I will keep thy righteous judgements such as 2 Chron. 15.14 And such as this is which you are met to take this day For you are to swear to such things which you are bound to endeavour after though you did not swear Your swearing is not solum vinculum but novum vinculum is not the onely but onely a new and another bond to tye you to the obedience of the things you swear unto which are so excellent and so glorious that if God give those that take it a heart to keep it it will make these three Kingdomes the glory of the world And as one of the Reverend Commissioners of Scotland said when it was first taken in a most solemn manner at Westminster by the Parliament and the Assembly That if the Pope should have this Covenant written upon a wall over against him sitting in his chair it would be unto him like the hand-writing to Belshazzar causing the joynts to loose and his knees to smioe one against another And I may adde that if it be faithfully and fully kept it will make all the Divels in Hell to tremble as fearing lest their Kingdome should not long stand Now then for a man to be an Anticovenanter and to be such a Covenant-refuser it must needs be a sin that makes the times perilous And the reason is Reason 1. Because you shall find in Scripture that when any Nation did enter into a solem religious Covenant God did exceedingly bless and prosper that Nation after that time As appears 2 Chron. 15.19 2 Kings 11.20 And we have a promise for it Deut. 21.12 13. That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God c. That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself and that he may be unto thee a God c. And therefore to be a Covenant-refuser is to make our miseries perpe●ual Reason 2. Because as it is the highest act of Gods love to man to vouchsafe to engage himself by Oath and Covenant to be his God so it is the highest demonstration of mans love to God to bind himself by Oath and Covenant to be Gods There is nothing obligeth God more to us then to see us willing to tye and bind our selves fast unto his service And therefore they that in this sense are Anti-covenanters are sons of Belial that refuse the yoak of the Lord that say as Psalm 2.3 Let us break his bands asunder and cast away his cords from us such as Oderunt vincula pietatis which is a soul-destroying and land-destroying sin Reason 3. Because that the union of England Scotland and Ireland into one Covenant is the chief if not the onely preservative of them at this time You find in our English Chroniclers that England was never destroyed but when divided within it self Our civil divisions brought in the Romans the Saxons Danes and Normans But now the Anti-covenanters he divides the Parliament within it self and the City within it self and England against it self he is as a stone separated from the building which is of no use to it self and threatneth the ruine of the building Jesus Christ is called in Scripture the corner-stone which is a stone that unites two ends of a building together Jesus Christ is a stone of union and therefore they that sow division and study unjust separation have little of Jesus Christ in them When the ten tribes began to divide from the other two tribes they presently began to war one against another and to ruine one another The Anti-covenanter he divides and separates and disunites and therefore he makes the times perilous My chief aim is at the second Doctrine which is Doct. 2. That for a Covenant-taker to be a Covenant-breaker is a sin that makes the times perilous For the opening of this point I must distinguish again of Covenants There are civil and there are religious Covenants A civil Covenant is a Covenant between man and man and of this the Text is primarily though not onely to be understood Now for a man to break promise and Covenant with his brother is a land-stroying and soul-devouring abomination We read 2 Sam. 21. that because Saul had broken the Covenant that Joshua made with the Gibeonites God sent a famine in David's time of three years continuance To teach us that if we falsifie our Word and Oath God will avenge covenant-breaking though it be forty years after Famous is that text Jer. 34.17 18 19 20. Because the Princes and the People brake the covenant which they had made with their servants though but their servants God tells them Because ye have not hearkned unto me in proclaiming liberty every one to his brother c. Behold I proclaim liberty for you saith the Lord to the sword to the pestilence and and to the famine and I will make you to be removed into all the Kingdomes of the Earth c. We read also Ezek. 17.18 19 20. That God tells Zedekiah because he brake the covenant he had made with the King of Babylon that therefore he would recompence upon his head the oath that he had despised and the covenant that he had broken and would bring him to Babylon and plead with him there for the trespasse which he had trespassed against the Lord. David tells us Psal 15.4 that it is a sin that shuts a man out of heaven The Turkish histories tell us of a covenant of peace made between Amurath the great Turk and Ladislaus King of Hungary and how the Pope absolved Ladislaus from his oath and provoked him to renew the war In which war the Turk being put to the worst and despairing of victory pulls out a paper which he had in his bosome wherein the league was written and said O thou God of the Christians if thou beest a true God be revenged of those that without cause have broken the league made by calling upon thy name And the story saith that after he had spoken these words he had as it were a new heart and spirit put into him and his souldiers and that they obtained a glorious victory over Ladislaus Thus God avenged the quarrel of mans covenant The like story we have of Rodolphus Duke of Swevia who by the Popes instigation waged war with Henry the fourth Emperour of Germany to whom he had sworn the contrary The Pope sent a Crown to him with this Motto Petra dedit Petro Petrus diadema

to renue your Covenant The same God inable you to keep Covenant It is said 2 Chron. 34 31 32. The King made a covenant before the Lord c. And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it And 2 Kings 23.3 The King stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the Lord c. and all the people stood to the covenant This is your duty not only to take the covenant but to stand to the covenant and to stand to it maugre all opposition to the contrary According as we read 2 Chron. 15.12 13. And they entred into covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers c. That whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death whether small or great whether man or woman For it is not the taking but the keeping of the Covenant that will make you happy God is stiled A God keeping covenant Deut. 9.4 Neh. 1.5 O that this might be the honour of this City That we may say of it London is a City keeping covenant with God Great and many are the blessings entailed upon Covenant-keepers Exod 19.5 6. Now therefore if you will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then you shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people for all the earth is mine And ye shal be unto me a Kingdom of Priests an holy Nation c. Psal 25.10 All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant c. Psal 15.4 There are three Covenants I shall perswade you in an especial manner to stand to 1. The covenant you made with God in Baptism A Christian saith Chrysostom should never step out of doors or lie down in his bed or go into his closet but he should remember that word Abrenuncio that is He should remember the time when he did renounce the Divel and all his works Oh let us not forget that which we ought alwayes to remember Let us remember to keep that Covenant as ever we desire God should remember us in mercy at the great day 2. The covenants which we make unto God in our afflictions Famous is that passage of Pliny in one of his Epistles to one that desired rules from him how to order his life aright I will saith he give you one rule which shall be instead of a thousand Vt tales esse perseveremus sani quales nos futuros esse profitemur infirmi That we should persevere to be such when we are well as we promise to be when we are sick A sentence never to be forgotten The Lord help us to live accordingly 3. The covenant which you are to take this day The happinesse or misery of England doth much depend upon the keeping or breaking of this Covenant If England keep it England by keeping covenant shall stand sure according to that text Ezek. 7.14 If England break it God will break England in pieces If England sleight it God will sleight England If England forsake it God will forsake England And this shall be written upon the Tombe of perishing England Here lyeth a Nation that hath broken the covenant of their God Remember what you have heard this day That it is the brand of a Reprobate to be a Covenant-breaker c. It is the part of a Fool to vow and not to pay his vowes And God hath no delight in the sacrifice of fools Better not vow then to vow and not to pay Eccl. 5.4 5. It is such an high prophanation of Gods Name as that God cannot hold a Covenant-breaker guiltlesse It is perjury injustice spiritual adultery sacriledge c. And the very lifting up of our hands this day if you do not set heart and hand on work to keep covenant will be sufficient witness against you at the great day We read Gen. 31.44 45 46 48 49 52 53. That Jacob and Laban entred into a covenant and ●ook a heap of stones and made them a witnesse and said This heap is a witnesse c. And they called the name of the place Mizpah The Lord watch between me and thee c. The God of Abraham judge betwixt us c. Such as your condition this day You enter into Covenant to become the Lords and to be valiant for his truth and against his enemies And the very stones of this Church shall be witnesse against you if you break covenant The name of this place may be called Mizpah The Lord will watch over you for good if you keep it and for evil if you break it And all the curses contained in the book of the Covenant shall light upon a willing covenant-breaker The Lord fasten these meditations and soul-awaking considerations upon your hearts The Lord give you grace to keep close to the Covenant and in keeping of it to keep God and a good conscience which are both lost by covenant-breaking There are 4. things which I shall perswade you unto in pursuance of your Covenant 1. To be humbled for your own sins and for the sins of the K●ngdome and more especially Because we have not as we ought valued the inestimable benefit of the Gospel that we have not laboured to receive Christ in our hearts nor to walk worthy of him in our lives which are the causes of other sins and transgressions so much abounding amongst us Gospel-sins are greater then legall sins and will bring Gospel-curses which are greater then legall-curses And therefore let us be humbled according to our Covenant for all our Gospel abominations 2. You must be ambitious to go before one another in an example of real reformation You must swear vainly no more be drunk no more break the Sabbath no more c. You must remember what David saith Psal 50.16 But unto the wicked God saith What hast thou to do to take my covenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest instruction and castest my words behind thee To si● willingly after we have sworn not to sin is not only to sin against a Commandement as I have said but to sin against an Oath which is a double iniquity and will procure a double damnation And he that takes a Covenant to reform and yet continued unreformed his Covenant will be unto him as the bitter water of jealousie was to the woman guilty of adultery which made her belly to swell and thigh to rot c. Numb 5.22 3. You must be careful to reform your families according to your covenant the example of Joshua Jacob the godly Kings forementioned 4 You must endeavour according to your places and callings to bring the churches of God in the three Kingdomes to the nearest conjunction and uniformity in religion c. O blessed Vnity how come it to passe that thou art so much sleighted and contemned Was not unity one of the chief parts of Christs prayer unto his Father when he was here upon earth John 17.11 Is not unity amongst Christians one of the