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A70864	Concordia discors, or, The dissonant harmony of sacred publique oathes, protestations, leagues, covenants, ingagements, lately taken by many time-serving saints, officers, without scruple of conscience ... by William Prynne, Esq. ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P3928; ESTC R22150	38,103	48

people throughout the Realm and by all or most Officers and Souldiers of the Army by their Authority We the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in the Commons House of Parliament finding to the great grief of our hearts that the designs of the Priests and Jesuites and other Adherents to the See of Rome have of late been * more boldly and frequently put in practise than formerly to the undermining and danger of the ruine of the true reformed Protestant Religion in his Majesties Dominions established And finding also that there have been and having just cause to suspect that there still are even during this sitting in Parliament * endeavours to subvert the Fundamental Laws of England and Ireland and to introduce the exercise of an Arbitrary and Tyranical Government by most pernicious and wicked Counsels Practises Plots and Conspiracies And that the long intermission and unhappy breach of Parliaments hath occasioned many illegal Taxations whereupon the Subject hath been prosecuted and grieved And that divers Innovations and Superstitions have been brought into the Church multitudes driven out of his Majesties Dominions jealousies raised and fomented betwixt the King and his people a Popish Army levyed in Ireland and two Armies brought into the bowels of this Kingdom to the hazard of his Majesties Royal Person the * consumpsion of the Revenues of the Crown and Treasure of this Kingdom And lastly finding a great cause of Jealousie that endeavours have been and are used to bring the English Army into a Mis-understanding of this Parliament thereby to * incline that Army with force to bring to passe those wicked Counsels have therefore thought good to joyn our selves in a Declaration of our united Affections and Resolutions and to make this ensuing Protestation I A. B do in the presence of Almighty God promise vow and protest to maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may with my life power and estate the true reformed Protestant Religion expressed in the Doctrine of the Church of England against all Popery and Popish Innovations within this Realm contrary to the same Doctrine and according to the duty of my Allegiance His Majesties Royal Person Honour and Estate as also the power and privilege of Parliament The lawfull Rights and Liberties of the Subject and every person that maketh this Protestation in whatsoever he shall do in pursuance of the same And to my power and as far as lawfully I may I will oppose and by all good wayes and means endeavour to bring to condigne punishment all such as shall either by force practise counsels plots conspiracies or otherwise do any thing to the contrary in this present Protestation contained And further that I shall in all just and honourable waies endeavour to preserve the Vnion and Peace between the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland And neither for hope fear nor other respect shall relinquish this Promise Vow Protestation 7. The next in time is the Solemn League and Covenant taken in the most solemn manner with hands lifted up to heaven and subscribed by all Members of Parliament in England and Scotland by all Civil Military Officers Souldiers and well-affected persons in our three Kingdoms by f sundry special Ordinances of Parliament approving and ratifying the same A Solemn League and Covenant for Reformation and defence of Religion the Honour and Happiness of the King and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland WE 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 and Saviour Jesus Christ the honour and happiness of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity and the true Publique Liberty Safety and Peace of the Kingdoms wherein every ones private condition is included and calling to minde the treacherous and bloudy plots Conspiracies Attempts and practises 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 and Kingdom of Scotland are present and publike 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 mutual and Solemn League and Covenant wherein we all subscribe and each one of us for himself with hands lifted up to the most high God do swear I. THat we shall sincerely really and constantly through the Grace of God endeavour in our several 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 II. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons indeavour the extirpation of Popery Prelacy that is Church-Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops their Chancellors and Commissaries Deans Deans and Chapters Archdeacons and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on that Hierarchy Superstition Heresie Schisme Profaneness and whatsoeuer shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the power of Godliness lest we partake in other mens sins and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues and that the Lord may be one and his Name one in the three Kingdoms III. We shall with the same sincerity reality and constancy in our several Vocations endeavour with our estates and lives mutually to preserve the Rights and Privileges of the Parliaments and the Liberties of the Kingdoms and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms that the world may bear witness with our consciences of our Loyalty and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his Majesties just power and greatness IV. We shall also with all faithfullness endeavour the discoverie of all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or evil Instruments by hindering the reformation of

other forecited Texts resolve 2ly Whether the late violation through fear or self-respects much more the wilfull justification perjurious repeal abrogation abjuration of our sacred lawful Oaths protestation Covenant be not a k most detestable crying scandalous damning sin exceedingly dishonorable to God injurious to Religion drawing down sad private personal and National judgements on those who are notoriously guilty thereof as is most apparent by Ezech. 16. 59. c. 17. 13. to 27. Zech. 8. 17. c. 5. 3 4. Hos. 10. 4. Lev. 6. 3 4. c. 19. 12. Prov. 24. 21 22. Jer. 5. 2. c. 7. 9. to 17. c. 34. 8. to 22. c. 52. 3 4. Deut. 31. 20. c. 29. 20. to 29. Ps. 78. 10. 37. 57. to 65. 2 Chron. 36. 13. Josh. 9. 20. 2 Sam. 21. 1. to 11. Jer. 23. 10. Rom. 1. 31 32. 1 Tim. 1. 10. worthy sad and serious perusal And whether those who are deeply guilty of these sins can ever expect to enter into heaven since this is made the special character of a Citizen of Zion Who shall dwell in Gods holy hill Psal. 15. 1 2 4. He that walketh uprightly and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth from his heart He that sweareth to his own Hurt and changeth not much more then when for his own and the publick good 3ly Whether those who have made taken and equally violated all or most of these contradictory Oathes Protestations Covenants Ingagements alike be not perjured persons and Covenant-breakers in folio void of all real fear of God truth faith conscience honesty religion if the premised Scriptures or Eccles. 9. 2 Acts 5. 3 4 5. may be credited And whether those who have been thus perfidious perjurious fidef●agus treacherous to all others can in point of justice conscience prudence policy impose an Oath upon all or any others to be true faithfull and constant in their Oaths Covenants trusts and obedience unto them especially before themselves have taken any such Oath to be true faithfull constant to their own principles or any fixed setled Government since they have taught them to be treacherous perfidious disloyal by their own precedent examples and God himself hath denounced this Wo and retaliation against such Isay 33. 1. Wo unto thee that dealest treacherously and they dealt not treacherously with thee when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously they shall deal treacherously with thee Which we have seen verified of late in sundry particulars even to admiration by divine retaliation to deterr all henceforth from the dangerous sin of Perjury Treachery Oath and Covenant breaking 4ly Whether it be not a most impious unchristian execrable if not Atheistical practice for any persons whatsoever especially without any colour of Parliamentary Authority to impose any Oath Vow or illegal Ingagement upon others diametrically repugnant to inconsistent with their former legal Oaths Protestations Covenants imposed on them by unquestionable Parliamentary Authority to their lawfull Soveraigns to ensnare wound their Consciences and involve them in the guilt of unevitable most apparent * Perjury and breach of all their former Oaths Protestations Covenants And whether such incur not that wo in Isay 10 1 2 3. Wo unto them that decree unrighteous decrees and that write grievousnesse which they have prescribed to turn aside the needy from Judgement to take away the right from the poor exiled Royal Issue and that they may rob the Fatherless And what will ye do in the day of Visitation and in the desolation which shall come from far to whom will ye flee for help and where will ye leave your glory If Ahabs and Jesabels suborning of false Witnesses against Naboath to gain his Vineyard who attested that Naboath did blaspheme God and the King brought such a heavy doom upon their persons and royal Posterity to their utter extirpation 1 Kings 1. 21 22. how much sorer judgements shall they incur who shall endeavour to make our whole 3. Kingdoms perjured in the highest degree by ingaging them to renounce blaspheme both God and the King abjure their former Oaths Covenants Protestations of purpose to disinherit the royal Posterity of their Crowns and Royalties which they have so precisely sworn protested covenanted over and over inviolably to defend and preserve 5ly Whether it can be just equitable prudential rational for any in present power to Commission intrust imploy Anabaptists Quakers with other Military Officers Souldiers by Land and Sea without prescribing any Military Oath unto them after so many meetings and violations of their trusts to the late King Parliament and other new Governours Governments of their own erecting to their total subversion to be true faithfull obedient and constant to them contrary to the Discipline of all former Ages amongst the Romanes Graecians and most other Nations who alwaies * imposed a Military Oath on all their Army-Officers Souldiers warranted by 2 Tim. 2 3 4 And in the mean time to inforce such a Oath upon all their Judges Justices and Civil Officers against their Judgements Consciences who are Orthodox in Religion approve of lawfull Oaths imposed by legal Authority of Parliament Magistracy and Ministry which Anabaptists Quakers and other Sectaries professedly oppugn and now violently endeavour to suppresse And whether those now sitting or any others who have taken the forecited Oaths to the late King and his Heirs or the Protestation League and Covenant can without apparent perjury and direct violations of them repute those few Reliques of the old Parliament now sitting forcibly secluding the Lords and Majority of their Fellow Members to be a lawfull Parliament within the Statute of 17 Car. c. 7 or submit to any Oaths Taxes Edicts of theirs as Parliamentarie or legal 6. Whether the forecited Oaths of Supremacy Allegigiance Maiors Sherisss Judges Recorders Bayliffs Parliament-Members and others in direct words extending not only to the late Kings person but his Heirs and Successors do not inviolably bind both them their Posterities and our whole three Nations Kingdoms in perpetuity in point of Law and Conscience so long as there is any Heir of the Crown and Royal line in being and that upon these unanswerable Scriptural presidents and legal considerations 7. Because Gods Oath and Covenant made to Eve Abraham Noah their Seed and Posterity and to the Israelites and their children and their Covenant made to God by Gods own resolution did oblige God himself and them in perpetuity from Generation to Generation Gen. 3. 15. c. 8. 21 22. c. 9. 1 to 17. c. 13. 16. c. 15. 18. c. 17. 2 to 22. c. 21. 13. c. 24. 7. c. 28. 4 13 14. Exod. 28. 43. c. 34. 7. Levit. 22. 3 4. Numb. 14. 24. c. 18. 19. c. 25. 12 13. Deut. 1. 8. c. 4. 31. 37. c. 5. 2 3. c. 7. 9 10 11. c. 8. 18. c. 11. 9. c. 28. 46. c. 29. 1. 4 to 20. c. 30. 6 9. c. 31. 21. c. 34. 4. Josh. 7. 11 15. c. 24. 3 to 29. 2 Chron. 20. 7 8. Neh.

them What shall I doe for you and Wherewith shall I make the Attonement that ye may blesse the Inheritance of the Lord And they said unto the King The man that consumed us and devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel let seven of his sons be delivered unto us and we will hang them up in Gibeah of Saul which the Lord did chuse which being accordingly done after that God was intreated for the Land and removed the famine 2 Sam. 1. 1. to 15. Here we have an Oath and Covenant binding the Israelites their Governours Heirs and posterity in perpetuitie to the Gibeonites and their posteritie which I shall parallel with our forementioned Oaths Protestation Covenant to our hereditarie Kings their heirs and successors to prove them more obliging to us and our posterities than this Oath League of the Israelites to the Gibeonites in regard of these observable circumstances particulars not hitherto insisted on by any which I beseech God in mercie to set home effectually upon all our hearts spirits consciences both for our information reformation settlement and avoiding Gods avenging justice on us and our posterities for our transcendent perjuries breach of Oathes and Covenants to our Soveraigns 1. This Oath and Covenant with the Gibeonites Embassadors was procured by meer fraud circumvention misinformation and apparent falshood arising meerly from those to whom it was made and sworn yet it obliged the Israelites and their posteritie to the Gibeonites and their progenie in perpetuitie But the forementioned Oathes together with the Protestation and Solemn League and Covenant were made without any fraud circumvention misinformation or false suggestion upon grounds of loyaltie dutie justice prudence christianitie Religion and State-policie voluntarily propounded by the makers takers of them and ratified in full Parliaments Therefore they must needs be farre more valid obligatory to the whole English Nation and their posterities than this Oath Covenant to the Gibeonites 2. This League and Oath was made very sodenly rashly unadvisedly without any advice with God and the whole Congregation or examining debating the truth of the Gibeonites suggestion yet it bound them when once made But our Oathes Protestation League Covenant were all made enacted enjoyned upon long and serious debate mature deliberation in several successive Parliaments Therefore ours must be much more obliging than theirs 3ly This League Oath was made only by the Princes of Israel without the Congregations privitie assent or advice who were discontented with and murmured against them for it yet it obliged both the Princes people and their posterities But our Oathes Protestation League and Covenant were made not only by all our Princes Nobles Peers but likewise by the whole House of Commons in full Parliaments and assented to by the whole English Nation both in and out of Parliament the * Commons being the original movers promoters contrivers of all or most of them Therefore they must be much more obligatorie to us and our po●eri●ies than theirs 4ly Their League Oath was never ratified by any publique Law or decree of the whole Congregation and people of Israel in any publike Convention but only by Ioshua and the Princes alone yet they bound the whole Nation Ours have been approved ratified established perpetuated by sundry successive Acts Ordinances Votes of Parliament from time to time continuing still in their full legal force Therefore much more valid and binding to us and our posterities than theirs 5ly That Oath League was taken sworn only by the Princes themselves not by the Congregation and people of Israel yet they were all obliged by them Our Oaths Protestation League Covenant have been sworn taken not only by all our Princes Nobles Officers of State Iustices but likewise by all or most of the Commons people of the Land from time to time both in and out of Parliament Therefore much more obliging to us and ours than theirs 6ly This Oath League of theirs to the Gibeonites was never taken and entred into for ought appears but once and that sodeinly without any subsequent renovation or ratification But our Oathes Protestation League Covenant have been swore taken again and again by all Members of Parliament Officers of State Iustices Graduates Lawyers Ministers most Souldiers and others upon sundry emergent occasions both in and out of Parliament Therefore much more obligatory to us and our posterities then theirs 7ly This Oath League for ought wee read was not made explicitly in precise terms with the Gibeonites their heirs and posteritie for ever but only indefinitely with the Gibeonites then in being whose lives they spared as the words import yet because they were a People State Citie Body politick having a permanent succession it virtually and intentionally in their own and Gods account too extended not only to the Gibeonites then living but to their succeeding issues in Sauls time near 400 years after and all succeeding Generations as q perpetual National Leagues use to do But our Oaths League Covenant in direct terms extend not only to our Kings to whom they were first made and sworn but likewise to their heirs successors and Royal Posterity for ever see 1 Jac. c. 1. 3. Jac. c. 4. 7 Jac. c. 6. 1 Eliz. c. 1. 3. Therefore they must needs be more binding to us our Heirs and Posterities in present and succeeding Generations than their to the Gibeonites 8ly Their League Oath was only with foreign Pagans Strangers who became their mere slaves and bondmen in perpetuitie and had not the least power jurisdiction over them yet it bound them to strict observation Ours are made sworn to our own Christian natural Kings Princes Soveraigns of our own flesh bloud Nation to whom we are natural borne Subjects and owe all dutifull allegiance by the Laws of God Nature Nations Therefore much more obliging to and most religiously to be kept by us and our posterities after us than theirs 9ly Which is most considerable this their Oath League was made with such an idolatrous remnant of the Ammonites as God himself by express precepts had commanded the Israelites to make no League nor Covenant with upon any terms but utterly to destroy with the edge of the sword without mercie without saving any of them alive Exod. 23. 32. c. 24. 12. 13. Deutr. 7. 1 2 3 c. c. 20. 16 17 18. Psal. 106. 34. 35. yet notwithstanding having once entred into a League with and sworn to them in the name of the Lord that they should live though by their own fraud circumvention and misinformation God was so jealous of his own name honour glory so unwilling that his own people should perjuriously treacherously perfidiously break their Oathe Covenant sworn in his name r being the highest the most sacred inviolable Obligations securities that can be betweene God and men man and man Nation and Nation that he would rather have his positive judicial Law which ſ some conceive to