under foot Against such Opposers mighty Adversaries who have let hitherto and will let till they be removed and taken quite away The Covenant did not descend to this Bottome to this Root even that discent To the Root argues an height of zeal too the eradicating or rooting-out of that cursed train the Pope and his Bishops Nor did that Covenant expresse a Love or a Care so diffusive so spreading toward their Sister Churches of Scotland and Ireland as it should have done when yet they knew but the present distractions and care to save themselves clouded them a little sailed in the same Ship with them were involved in the same dangers from those floods of great Waters quite covering the Ship of the Church in the same Tempest even Scotland too Much more might be said I will say but this The Lords thoughts are good and gratious toward His People He will bring His People up to Him fully and indeed And what way takes The Lord He suffers the Adversary to blunder on his own way gives him as the Adversary calls it Successe in his way and as he will have it called a Victory The Lord delivers up His Cities some of them into the Enemies hand then suffers the Adversary gives their Tongue power to move and to blaspheme His Holy Name The Adversary in his pride and height of blasphemy asked a poor People Where is now your God What is become of your Praying and Fasting and Preaching What of all that O wretches Divels I had almost said What is become of all this Look you here and if you can consider consider for it is Higgaion Selah a matter seriously to be thought upon That the Peâ—le of God have prayed and praised Prayer and praise still go together and fasted Psal 9 16. and preached Three Kingdoms into one as sanctisied means these have brought them into Covenant with their God as it is at this day At that very time when the Adversary so blasphemed at that point of time Scotland had great thoughts of heart for England and England for Scotland both for Ireland So they entered into a League knit themselves together all as one To c. For there is enough said touching the matter and manner c The subject of a short Treatise of that solemnity though I had said nothing I shall enquire now into these things and demonstratively shew first I. I. The necessity of taking this way of Covenanting with God It is the Sacra Anchora the onely remedy to save the Ship of the Church How is that done For save the Ship and save all By maintaining the Rights and Priviledges of the Gospel or to speak in the vulgar and common speech To maintain the Protestant Religion No way to do this but To Covenant with The Lord so to do there is a necessity then A. No no Necessity at all nor cause why this should be the Kingdoms care for it is the Kings care B A poor speech I will not say simple Is any one man sufficient for that care Or dare any man say he is compitent for such a care The care of all the Churches lay upon Paul God fitted him for it and Paul was not alone he had and would have many helpers The care of three Kingdoms is more and more waighty A. True nor is the King alone as he tells us The maintenance of the true Religion is his care and he vows to discharge that care B. Very well But I wish from my heart That His Majesty had not vowed so much for the Church And more from my soul if more can be That he had not done so much against her A. His zeal is pardonable and his care pious and conscientious he is carefull to discharge his care as was said and he knows how to do it well enough His Majesty has Noble Instruments about Him helpers to him in the full discharge of that great Trust and care B. By your leave Sir I le take it yet by the help of God and His Law I will keep my self within the Bounds of Christian Prudence and say The vile Councellors have set the King in a worse way then ever Jeroboam who made Israel sin prosecuted For Jeroboam took a good way to a cursed end and that is strange yet not so strange as true I say good by allowance of the Spirit who calls Achitophels Counsell good d 2 Sam. 17. 14. though tending to a cursed end A good way Jeroboam went plain and direct neither he nor the People could be deceived in it The full purpose of his heart was to set up a Calvish worship which yet he might call true for I think no man embraceth falshood under that â—otion though clean crosse and contrary to that worship instituted and commanded by God Himself at Jerusalem I say he set up a Calvish Religion and he sayes so too That was well say so and do so And the good way he took plain and direct For all that he did had a direct tendency thereunto to his main scope in the sight of all the People Therefore what did he He appointed Calvish brutish Priests such a service such Priests These agreed as the Maâ—eâ—…lips and Lettice A good way this still no turnings of the old Serpent in it but direct and straight But had Jeroboam then professed in words To maintain the worship of God commanded at Jerusalem while yet he did as he did set his eye against the Priests of the Lord spied them out and spurned them out throughout all his Towns and Cities which he did with that violence and eagernesse That those Priests if you marke the story came by companies to Jerusalem persecuted by Jeroboam out of their places where he had Command or spoyled there had I say Jeroboam professed with his mouth all this time while he persecuted with his hand To maintain the true worship of God then every child would have laughed at him and the soberman who knowes what it is to mock God but God is not mocked would have wept heartily Ah Lord would the true Israelite have said what professe the true worship as at Jerusalem and set up Calves at Dan and Bethel Ah Lord Indeed the true Israelite would have so wept so mourned and let him do so still as he sees cause for whatever we judge of the King the Lord He is Judge between him and us we do know his helpers what maintainers they are of Religion what Lawlesse men will do for our lawes children of Belial with our sacred Coards and Bands and what Papists will do touching the Rights and Priviledges of the Church and Gospel For at this time we will not mention the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament though of good account with us yet of no account to the Pearle in the Gospel that is the Gospel and at the stake now have at it and all at once and then lose that and lose all A. The King cares for the Gospel as
THREE KINGDOMS MADE ONE By entring COVENANT with one GOD wherein we have these Remarkables worthy all observation I. What it is to Covenant with God II. How hardly his People are drawn into it III. How The Lord has suffered His Adversaries from time to time To Buffit His People thereinto IV. The height of this Covenant above former Covenants and Reasons why Clear Demonstrations also to shew I. The necessity of this League and Covenant whereunto there are grave Objections made and Answered II. The Legality and Equity of this Covenant for the Casting out of Archbishops and Bishops with their Curates Service and all together And Answer made to all that can be reasonably objected against their Casting forth III. The Exemplarynesse of this Covenanting way It is according to the foot steps of all the Godly as all the truely Noble in the World have gone in before us IV. The Seasonablenesse of it and therein the Power Wisedome and Goodnesse of God All wonderfully admirable V. The Sweetnesse of the Promise touching this matter The purging out of the Rebels and how saluted a farre off If Rebels continue longer in the Land if more Rebels come plundering into the Land Then there is excellent Reason why it must be so and abundance of Comfort for the Church of God and no cause of fear VI. The force efficacy and vertue of Covenanting with God It never failed the Church It never shall fail the Church unto the Worlds end VII One Objection there is but it is cleared and Gods Interest in the businesse is so cleared too That He must help His People That He must VIII We have Reasons and Arguments enough why He must help His glory is engaged even He Himself and so we have concluded By Ez W. Deut. 27. 17 18 19. Thou hast avouched The Lord this Day to be thy God And The Lord hath avouched thee this Day to be His peculiar People And to make thee high above all Nations which He hath made in Praise and in Name and in Honour And that thou mayest be an holy People unto The Lord thy God as He hath spoken London Printed for Christopher Meredith and are to be sold at the sign of the Crane in Pauls Church-yard 1643. READER I Have of late fastened my thoughts upon a great businesse The Militia of Kingdoms how To fortifie them To set them in a safe Posture for Warre By Gods good hand with me my Thoughts have issued the Means how to compasse and bring about this greatest Work none like it These are the means First Purge out the accursed Persons and Things That must needs be first But this is not done by humane strength Men have done it yet working as Instruments in Gods hand and He has been brought down to them and their Work How By Fasting Praying Preaching c. Mighty means all these to bring God down to a People but all these cannot keep God close to a People And because we are lost in generalls I have singled forth one Person To exemplifie all this To shew what exploites he has done How he has maintained his Militia by all these Means and more to be shewn in due time but more specially by This the chiefest of all Means which now follows Covenanting with God That is An Ingaging Work It Ingageth us to God and God to us This is Covenanting and most prevailing it is every way Indeed Nothing does the Work throughly but This Covenanting with The Lord. An high and mighty Work of large yea infinite capacity Therefore it must take up more roome then we would have it Considering how loth men are to fill their hands with Papers now a dayes or to be at Cost unlesse for news some of it not worth a Sparrows price though a Penny more might gain us very much and undeceive the whole World even of unbeleevers as one * The Vndeceiver I shall name the Author anone for honour sake in a Low Case If I would make a request in so low a matter I would entreat you read it has done very happily that way but there is a generation of Men that will not give twopence for knowledge They care not what the Learned say but they can read and beleeve lyes In reference to the present time and this novâ—ll Reader all for News This comes out a part and alone like a piece or a cantle broken off in the midst and therefore begins so abruptly Three Kingdoms c. I Am come now to a full point the conclusion of the businesse The entring into Covenant with God That is the period the main point indeed I will tell thee in the intrance what it is I. I. The great and highest worke That which will maintain the Militia of a Kingdom fully It will set it in a Posture for War or against it the strength of Battell even so safe as it shall laugh to scorn all the fury of the oppressor and aske Where is it it will make a Kingdom like a wall of brasse and render the blast of the terrible ones of no more force or account against it then is a puffe of wind against the perpetuall hils and everlasting mountains For this worke is an engaging the heart of a Kingdom altogether as one Man unto one God The I refresting Intitling Him to the Kingdome the giving up the government of it into Gods hands the willing resigning this government up and leaving of it where it is and must be when all is done upon the Lords shoulders so as it shall be now called The Lords Kingdom and the people there the Lords People the gates and barre there I mean all the fenced places all the Ammunition all the Battlements there the Lords gates the Lords Battlements Not the Kings Forts now though there shall be no diminution to Hi-Rights and Royalties His Kingly Power and Authority which God had given into his hands No diminution at all not one jot or tittle is taken thence Caesar must have his due given him enough by Gods allowance but then no more for God is God of gods and Lord of Lords the High and Supream Lord still and his Law the supream power still and this is the glory of a King on earth to be subordinate to the King of Heaven and a a willing Subject to His Law I was saying not the Kings Kingdom now nor the people properly the Kings people now nor their own nor the Forts and Battlements there all these Fortifications there not the Kings now but the Lords Kingdom now the Lords people now the Lords Battlements now It is just so for if the King will do as we shall see anon the Kingdom has done give himself unto the Lord which is the prayer of all His good and faithfull people then the King will not be his own neither but the Lords a willing Subject to Him who is King of Kings he sits King in the Lords Throne stands charged by the oath of God to
the Church for Church-men and Church Service as we will call it and not against the Parliament B. Yes against it for they are not with it In this very case also our Lords words are true and reach these Neuters A. But what Law have you for Neuters B. None at all Law is for an Hare they say and a Polt for a Polt Cat. The very truth is we have no Law for them at all But all the Law in Heaven and Earth is against such And if we do not throw them out The Lord will spew them out As sure as Herod was a Fox so sure this Neuter is such another man a cunning knave and a very fool too he stands holding fast a brasse-penny in his hand beholding the while the Pearl trampled-under by Swine He holds fast his own Rights and will keep his own Priviledges But for the Gospel and Gospels Rights whether kept or lost he is William Indifferent a I knew a man in Oxford called so who when his house very old and rotten was on fire and he was told of it said he was indifferent I know not where to finde this Neuter as our English Seneca to his little friend in his yonger dayes b To Mr. W L. deead 3. epist 5. he is every where and no where c. But I will rather have it observed how the Poet describes him Natat modo like one that swimes he is now on this side now on that openly for vertue secretly for vice as unequall as Priscus as like himself as Vertumnus as various as Protcus c Hor 2. ser Sal. 7. A man that has his body here and his heart with the Kings Army That gives a pound of silver to The Lord Christ thereby to keep his thousand and one hundred to maintain the Warre of Antichrist A man that standeth at an indifferency so equally poysed That a Moment turns him he is as is the time runs as does the stream stands as does a Weather Cock I could tell him now two or three stories which would make him tremble at the judgements of God upon Neuters but I forbear He will not appear for Christ his end will be destruction he must appear but Christ will not appear for him not acknowledge him then at that day As miserable a man as is in the world and as Malignant and hurtfull They that are so and appear not do the most mischief It is but Law and Reason both That these should be cast out And now to close up the Bishops Case and the Legality of the proceeding against them we will note this as follows That the proceedings against the Bishops have been all along these 3 yeers according to the clearest prints of Law and Justice that ever were observed in the world For first The Worthies un-Bishoped them thrust them down from their Thrones an honour their flatterers gave unto them without Reason the Worthies took it from them by all Reason and Law to help They took from them their Dignities Lordships temporall and spirituall rendred them as contemptible as they made themselves and endeavoured to make the Lords day And which was most observable The Church cast them out of their Prayers Indeed their praying for them still as Bishops over the Church had been an intimation of their right to raign tyrannize rather over them still and the Churches subjection to that Antichristian power But they thrust them out of their chairs and now they vow to root them out from the Land of the living If we behold this well it will appear to be a very beautifull work and the order taken therein makes it so beautifull It puts me in minde how the Romans dealt once with their Ruler that ruled them as the Bishops ruled with a Rod of Iron so proudly so contrary to Law and all good Reason That he was called Turquin the proud he dealt with his People almost as proudly as the proudest have dealt in Ireland The People honoured him while he was their King but when he rendred himself a Tyrant by his insolencies and cruelties then they would not endure they un-kinged him that was first and then lifted up their hands and vowed to root him out him and all of his name I note it to shew the Legality of the proceeding with the Bishops It reacheth higher to the Archbishops But I have done You see the Legality and equity of this Covenant touching the casting forth these Archbishops Bishops Curates and all this as clear as is the Sunne next and there I shall be short We must observe the exemplarynesse of this Covenanting way There are a Cloud of Witnesses who will give their Seal and Warrant hereunto III. Asa is a man of renown touching that matter who ever observes his steps will go on after him Never any man was more successefull then he so victorious as he he made his Kingdom a Mountain of brasse The Ethiopian came against Judah with a thousand thousand and more thought verily to storme Judah No Judah had taken a sure way To confound his Adversary They had entered Covenant with God But I prevent my self here more of this anone I might be large here but I forbear in so cleered a case The three Kingdoms entering into Covenant now have done according to the best examples as all the true Israel have done in all Ages It is a clear case as clear as the Sun I come to the next The Seasonablenesse of this Covenanting IV. Oh the Wisedome of God The Power of God Oh the goodnesse the mercy of God whose Name is wonderfull God indeed hissed for His people in the North called upon them to enter Covenant with His people in the South They readily obeyed Was that any wonder No truely For besides their own endearments and concernments paries cum proximus ardet their own vows were upon them and have lain upon their shoulders almost these fourscore yeers But let us see the power of God here we will observe His Wisedome afterwards His Power first Who makes the Wolfe to lye down with the Lamb The Calfe and the young Lyon and the fatling together and Isai 11. 6. a little childe shall lead them Wat you what Reader I pray you let us hear That as we understand how matters stood betwixt England and Scotland three yeers ago when the Bishops in both Kingdoms would have thrust each others sword into each others Bowels So also we may understand how matters stood betwixt England and Scotland three hundred yeers agone Ah Lord But we may remember it rather with praise now and rejoycing For we are Bretheren now and live as Bretheren and accursed be he with all the curses in Gods Book that goes about heartily and indeed to break the Brother-hood between Judah and Israel To sow seeds of discord betwixt these two God has joyned us together and we are Bretheren now We and here God is wonderfull who sometimes Centuries agoe were Wolves each to
vvhich Mr Channell hath cleared to all the vvorld that This and That Persons and things vvere brought in by the meer pleasure of man against the Law vvhereon I could delate very largely too for he is deceived indeed and vvillingly so That vvill not be undeceived now ergo say I These may be cast-out by Law But I vvill not trust my Law I will grant though my indulgency that vvay vvill do the Bishops no good That the Law has appointed Bishops Lords over Dioces has setled them in the Church placed them amidst the House of Peers made them Spirituall too I cannot tell vvhat the Law of the Lord may do but sure I am The Law of the Land never did that But grant all this give them their challenge all the Rope they do deserve all the Law they do desire grant them their sayings That the Law of the Land has made them Arch Bishops and Bishops Lords and Spirituall all this truly I can scarce suffer such a thing to drop from my Pen the Rope vvas more in my thought and that is Law too But be it so for this time yet notwithstanding this large grant If Arch-Bishops and Bishops are all for mounting-up of Altars Edification of Images for maintaining Superstitions Heresies Blaspemies horrible Prophanations even of the Lords Day Then may vve finde out a Law or make a Law and swear unto it vvhen vve have done To thrust-out such abominable Parsons or give them the Rope vvithin so Trussing them up by the Necks A. Stay a little dare you avouch all this B. Yes and swear it too and more I vvill make a challenge If I do not give better Reason and Law both vvhy the Arch-Bishops and Bishops I mean a Bishop rick in the Bishops latitude should have a Rope from Earth than they can give vvhy they should have a Bishoprick from Heaven I mean If I cannot make better proof That they should have a Rope Lege Humana than they can make Proof of Tenure or holding their Bishopricks Iurc Divino Then I vvill hang for them at Tyburn or burne for them in Smithfield A. Durst you or vviser and better than you say as much as this five years ago B. No indeed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quidem deep silence then for it vvas the Power of Darknesse and the Bishops vvere in their Zenith the verticle point and height of their Reigne I vvill speak a little for my betters It was an Evill time the Prudent man held his peace and so he shewed his own vvisedome by his silence and doing nothing for Beholding The Lords Day Prophaned The Lord of the Day Blasphemed The Honours and Service of the Day defiled all this while he vvisely held his Peace He observed more even grievous Wolves hasting to Christs fold thence removing the Shepheards and there scattering the sheep All this while if they would let him alone he would let them alone such was his wisdom But it was his own he never learnt it of his God He bids this man who ever he is But this man was not alone a thousand with him were as silent as he was but if alone yet God bids him In my Cause and against my Enemies be as bold as a Lyon Then certainly He that so commands would as He did command the Lions mouth he shall not devour this man who is as bold as a Lion for Gods sake Truly we must not flatter our Wisers and our betters It was their fault and they are excedingly humbled for it they were too fearfull too loath to speak too forward to flatter So the Shepheards and their flocks were scattered as we heard indeed the servants of the Lord considering the terrours of the Lord the place appointed for the fearfull are very much humbled for their silence and Complyance and if they be carried down with the stream of mighty waters they can accept of their punishment whereof Augustine discourses very well and usefully in his first Book of the City of God Cap. 9. Now we return to our Law Book which tels us That our Bishops were not made Archbishops nor Lords neither by our Law-Book Though an Arch-Bishop said once in the face of a great Assembly That the Holy Ghost made him Bishop Well said for a Bishop but when he had said he had done and no man was so fool-hardy as to reply for it was in the High Commission Court and he was next to the highest there and by the Laws and Constitutions there he was made constituted and established a Bishop and maintained his standing there by the same Statute Law we know no other But grant them all the Law in the world for their being Bishops Archbishops we will not mention yet they are not more Bishops nor by a better Law Than Maacha was Queen yet when she had hoysed-up a filthy thing I know not what to call it but an Idol it was and lifted her eyes and heart unto it then was she by the Covenant and Oath the King and Peoyle had taken Put down from being Queen So it followes here and by as good Law and so I leave it and will hear now what the Man has to say why their Curats may not be extirpated or Rooted out also Truly me thinks they stand together very I mean all the Idol Shepherds in the Land handsomely in their Service-book Bishops and Curats and let them be thrown-out in Gods Name with their Service-Book too So it will be why should they not be together still Bishops and Curats for such Bishops and such Curats and such a Service-Book And out they shall be cast for certainly so contrary the Church has Prayed this long time and now the Church shall reap the fruits of her Prayers and long expectations by help of God and His Law Book the Church will cast out Arch-Bishops Bishops and Curats A. Not Curates sure they are good men standing up for the King and for Religion B. So say the Bishops too explain the termes and you have your Answer For the King What 's that Against God the High God Lord of Lords against His Christ Prince of the Kings of the Earth against Truth and Peace against every thing That has a tendency that way to the good and happynesse of the King and Kingdom For Religion now what is the meaning of that The Curate shall tell you For Religion i. e. for formes of Religion a Liturgy a Service Book for all their Religion is there We have lifted up our hands to the High God That we will throw out all these who are so contrary even as is light and darknesse to That which we have joyned hands and heart to maintain with our Estates and Lives that is Religion and cursed be all those who obstinately stand Neuters in this great Cause so neerly concerning God His King and Kingdoms A. Why are those that stand Neuters cursed men They are innocent They will anger no Party They are for the King for
rule His people Gods people with equity and His poor Gods poor with judgement 2 Chron. 8 9. Psal 72 8 doing all still in subordination to the Supreme Law and in reference to the Law Book I was saying but I was interrupted willing to tell the Reader as shortly as I could what this Covenanting is that now we are come to the great work and busines of the time with much ado and great trouble through the heat of the day we are come up to this businesse now at the last The entering Covenant with God an endevour at least to bring three Kingdomes up unto it to engage them to be the Lords Kingdom the summe and upshot of the businesse the fruit and result of all our Fasting Praying Preaching the end and issue of all this is but to make a People a People of willingnesses a willing People to this Work of Covenanting with the Lord that they will be Psal 110. the Lords People II. II A wonderfull thing that sith this is all to enter Covenant with the Lord that we will be no more our own but His People we should be so hardly drawn to the Work so backward to it I say again a wonderfull thing O ye heavens be astonished at this the Lord has brought up Rebellious children indeed Take the sons of Belial this once for an example these sons all the world over how willing are they to make a League and Covenant with their Adversary the Devill Sin Death and Hell And Israel His people draw back will not hear the joyful sound will not enter Covenant with the Lord. O ye heavens are ye not astonished at this See again how these children of disobedience and sons of Perdition how these Associate and knit themselves together fully resolved to their power to breake the bands of the Lord and cast away his cords and then to root out His people that their name may be no more upon the earth Thus these Children do Earth earth earth hear the Word of the Lord shall not his people do as much for their God and His Cause as the wicked do for the Devill their Master and to maintain his worship and their Idols yet how hardly are the sons and daughters of God drawn to do contrary to these sons of Belial To lay their souls under Sacred bands To bind themselves with the cords of God His Lawe His Statutes His Judgements III. III. It is very remarkable and sure we will set a marke upon it by the way how the Lord has forced His People has used a kind of violence to bring up His people to this Covenanting Work The Lord suffered the Adversary to buffit His People into Covenant with Him The Lord suffered the foot of Pride to prevail very much even to a setting-under and trampling upon the heads of the Righteous as Myre in the Street Thus The Lord suffered it to be That His People might stir-up themselves Protest to serve God better and avouch Him for their God And so His People did But here was much of self in this Work self ends and self respects They groaned under grievous Task-masters The Proud man had set his right foot upon the Church and his left foot upon the Common wealth and swore he would take away their Birth-right from both Their Laws Rights Liberties 1 Pet. 1. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Inheritance of their Fathers But these outward Liberties the setting the foot upon these This pinched indeed this crushed to the heart and this was the main Inforcement with the greatest part To enter into a Protestation I say that swayed most with the most Well God heard their groans notwithstanding pittied His People and took off that head which consulted against His hidden ones and withered that hand and foot which set so hard upon the Necks of the Righteous But as is said of the King he never dies So of the Churches Adversary he is still lively and strong and a Legion he is for many there are who hate the Church here And then he was more mad with rage then the Nations were indeed angry So the Adversary and Enemy plotted and plotted Here he layed a snare and there a snare The Lord brake the snares still For He had a respect to their Protestation That His People seemed willing to avouch Him for their God And from that very day a See Thank â—ssâ—… p. 85. The Lord blessed His People made them strong to do exploits from that day But from that day the Adversary was more lively and active as was said to do mischief So they traversed this way and that way Till at last they brought about a most bloody Designe What was that To cut and slay not a few To destroy a Mother City in Israel even her Who maintains a great Family is the great House-keeper under God The great Hostesse in our Land that forgets not to entertain strangers To welcome the out-casts and abjects those that are thrown-out of Cities and Towns all over the Land as Persons or things of no worth there b 2 Cor. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Heb 13 1. But the world is not worthy of them These this Hostesse do's entertain she is not forgetfull This Mother City was in designe to have been destroyed even this City and with her all the faithfull there and every where that had an hand with David Indeed and indeed had the Adversary had his will they had destroyed this City and all with David all throughout the Land from corner to corner What then Then we entred into Covenant It was high time And doubtlesse the hearts of the upright were upright touching that matter But we we common People did not Covenant To search every man his own heart for the finding and casting out the accursed thing therein And those who as alwayes they have done made void the Laws of God and man We came not up fully unto that Work Nay let me take the boldnesse for to say sith I speak in the presence of God and by His grace will waigh and consider what I say and I will propose it by way of doubt or Proposition onely thus Was not that Covenanting too Selvish I mean did not the Subjects Rights and Priviledges take up too much Roomth there I will not say it did for was there not a Cause That the Worthies should do as they did Yet this I may say III. IIII. There was not that Spiritually in the businesse as God requires The Worthies all of them did not till now rise to that height of Soul touching The Lords matters in His worship The main and chief businesse did not seem to be the Cause of God Religion The Faith The great Trust of the Kingdom The maintaining the Rights and Liberties of the Gospel and then of the Church against those Usurpers That had taken these Liberties quite away pleading their Right from Heaven the while they set the Church