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parliament_n	kingdom_n	majesty_n	proposition_n	3,897	5	9.1131	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52601	Two speeches delivered before the subscribing of the Covenant, the 25. of September, at St. Margarets in Westminster the one by Mr. Philip Nye, the other by Mr. Alexander Henderson.	Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672.; Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646.	1643 (1643)	Wing N1501; ESTC R4609	13,718	26

in Covenant with God the best work of love and Christian Communion to joyn in Covenant with the people of God the best work of the best zeal to joyn in Covenant for Reformation against the enemies of God and Religion the best work of true loyaltie to joyn in Covenant for the preservation of our King and Superiours and the best proof of naturall affection and to be without naturall affection is one of the great sinnes of the Gentiles to joyn in Covenant for defence of our Native Countrey Liberties and Lawes Such as for these necessary ends to withdraw and are not willing to enter into Covenant have reason to enter into their own hearts and to look into their Faith love zeal loyalty and naturall affection As it is acceptable to God so have we for it the precedent and example not onely of the people of God of old of the Reformed Churches of Germany and the Low Countreyes but of our owne Noble and Christian Progenitors in the time of the danger of Religion which is expressed in the Covenant it self The defect was They went not on throughly to enter in a solemne Covenant an happinesse reserved for this time which had they done the corruptions and calamities of these dayes might have been prevented And if the Lord shal bee pleased to move loose and enlarge the hearts of his people in his Majesties Dominions to take this Covenant not in simulation nor in luke warmnesse as those that are almost perswaded to bee Christians but as becommeth the people of God it shall bee the prevention of many evils and miseries and a meane of many and rich blessings spirituall and temporall to our selves our little ones and the Posterity that shall come after us for many Generations The neere and neighbouring example of the Church and Kingdome of Scotland is in this case worthy of our best observation When the Prelates there were grown by their rents and Lordly Dignities by their exorbitant power over all sorts of his Majesties subjects Ministers and others by their places in Parliament Councel Colledge of Justice Exchequer and High Commission to a monstrous dominion and greatnesse and like Gyants setting their one foot on the neck of the Church and the other on the neck of the State were become intolerable insolent and when the people of God through their oppression in Religion Liberties and Lawes and what was dearest unto them were brought so low that they chused rather to die then to live in such slavery or to live in any other place rather then in their own native Countrey Then did the Lord say I have seen I have seen the affliction of my people and I have heard their groaning and am come downe to deliver them The beginnings were small and contemptible in the eyes of the presumptuous enemies such as use to be the beginnings of the greatest works of God but were so seconded and continually followed by the undeniable evidences of Divine Providence leading them forward from one step to another that their Mountain became strong in the end No tongue can tell what motions filled the hearts what teares were poured forth from the eyes and what cryes came from the mouthes of many thousands in that Land when they found an unwonted flame warming their breastes and perceived the power of God raising them from the dead and creating for them a new world wherein should dwell Religion and Righteousnes When they were destitute both of moneys and munition which next unto the spirits and armes of men are the sinews of Warre the Lord brought them forth out of his hid treasures which was wonderfull in their eyes and matter of astonishment to their hearts When they were many times at a pause in their deliberations and brought to such perplexity that they knew not what to chuse or to do for prosecuting the work of God onely their eyes were toward him not onely the feares and furies but the plots also and policies of the Adversaries opened the way unto them their devices were turned upon their own heads and served for the promoting of the work of God The purity of their intentions elevated above base and earthly respects and the constant peace of their hearts in the midst of many dangers did bear them out against the malicious accusations and aspersions put upon their actions all which were sensible impressions of the good providence o● God and ●eg●●e characters of his work which as the Church and Kingdom of England exercised at this time with greater difficulties then theirs have in part already found so shall the Parallel be perfected to their greater comfort in the faithful pursuing of the work unto the end Necessity which hath in it a kind of Soveraignty is a Law above all Laws and therfore is said to have no Law doth mightily presse the Church and Kingdom of Scotland at this time It is no small comfort unto them that they have not beene idle and at ease but have used all good and lawfull means of Supplications Declarations and Remonstrances to his Majestie for quenching the combustion in this Kingdome And after all these that they sent Commissioners to his Majestie humblie to mediate for a reconcilement and Pacification But the offer of their humble service was rejected from no other reason but that they had no warrant nor capacity for such a Mediation And that the intermixture of the Government of the Church of England with the Civill government of the kingdom was such a mistery as could not be understood by them Althoug it be true which was at that time often replyed that the eighth demand of the Treatie and the answer given thereunto concerning the Uniformity of Religion was a sufficient ground of capacity and the proceedings of the Houses of Parliament against Episcopal Government as a stumbling block hindering Reformation and as a prejudice to the Civil State was ground enough for their information The Commissioners having returned from his Majestie without successe and the miseries of Ireland the distresses of England and the dangers and pressures of the kingdom of Scotland growing to greater extremity such as were intrusted with the publick affairs of the Kingdome 〈…〉 according to the practise of former times his Majesty having denyed a Parliament to call a Convention of the Estates for considering of the present affairs and for providing the best remedies which immediatly upon their meeting by the speciall providence of God did receive information of diverse treacherous attempts of Papists in all the three Kingdomes as if they had been called for that effect And by the same providence Commissioners were sent from both Houses of Parliament to consider with the Estates of the Kingdome of Scotland of such Articles and Propositions as might make the conjunction betwixt the two Nations more beneficiall and effectuall for the securing of Religion and Libertie against Papists and Prelates with their adherents Their Consultations with the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly did