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A26065	Evangelium armatum, A specimen, or short collection of several doctrines and positions destructive to our government, both civil and ecclesiastical preached and vented by the known leaders and abetters of the pretended reformation such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall, and others, &c.	Assheton, William, 1641-1711.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing A4033; ESTC R4907	49,298	71

while been preserved by what hath been done Little cause have we to be discouraged for those we have to deal with their spirits are base and vile why should we fear those uncircumcised Philistines If you say Well but were it not better we bent all our forces to some Accommodation To that we answer you thus You have to deal not onely with his Majesty but with a Popish party that are about him and what security you can ever have of your peace as was worthily said before except the Scotish Nation comes in for to fasten it it is easie for any one to judge I will tell you but one story about that and because it is suitable unto you I will therefore relate it here It is a Story that I find in the Chronicles that in the days of King Edward the sixt King Edward sends to this City for assistance against the Lords and the Lords send to the City for their assistance likewise and the Common-Councel was called I suppose in this place and there stands up as the story saith a wise discreet Citizen in the Common-Councel and makes this speech unto them First he acknowledges that the cause was right for the Lords for the Kingdom though it were against the will of the King because the King would not then put in execution those Laws that should be but hindered them but yet saith he let me remind you of that that I have read in Fabians Chronicle it was one George Stadley that stood up let me remind you of that when there was a fight between the Lords and the King the Lords send for assistance to the City the City granted their assistance the Lords prevailed the King was taken and his Son a Prisoner afterwards they were both released upon Composition and amongst other things this was one that howsoever the City should be preserved that the City should suffer nothing for what they had done and this Composition was confirmed by Act of Parlament but saith this Citizen what came of it did the King forgive No nor forget for afterwards all our Liberties were taken away strangers were set over us for our Heads and Governours the bodies and the estates of the Citizens were given away and one misery followed after another and so we were most miserably persecuted and here was their Accommodation Have not many of you spent your blood in this Cause yea how many young ones in this City have lost their blood Me-thinks a spirit of indignation should rise in you to vindicate the loss of the blood of your Servants and Children many precious ones that might have lived many years to have done good service for the Lord. Know there shall come a day wherein you shall be calling and crying to God for mercy the success of this evenings work will be recorded against that day when you shall cry for mercy Out of Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. I Know many Objections might be made You have done much already and the sum is great I say no more There is nothing great to a mind that is great and the Cause is great and though the sum of money be great yet their love is greater than all you can lay out to answer their love And say not grumbling we have done often and often I say to you as Christ said to him that asked him How often must I forgive my brother Why seventy times seven times So will I say for this publique Cause you must do and you must do and yet you must do and yet you must do as long as there is a penny in thy purse as long as there is strength in thy hand as long as there is breath in thy body you must be all Servants to Christ and Servants to the Churches of Jesus Christ. The Independents Conclusions from the Presbyterian Principles Mr. John Dury's Considerations concerning the present Engagement with Mr. Caryl's Imprimatur An. Dom. 1649. THe Oath of Allegiance as you know did bind all men as Subjects in Law to be true and faithful to the Kings Person to his Heirs and Successors as they were invested with the authority which the Law did give them nor was it ever meant by the Parlament which Enacted the Oath of Allegiance that any should be absolutely bound to the King and his Heirs as they were men to be true and faithful to their Personal Wills but onely to them and their Wills as they had a Legal standing that is to the Authority conferred upon them by the consent of the People which was testified in and under a Law whereunto the King and his Heirs were bound for the Kingdoms good by Oath So that the Obligations of King and Subjects are mutual and must needs stand and fall together according as the condition by which they are begotten is kept or broken which is nothing else but the Law according to which he and his Subjects agree that he shall be their King and they shall be his Subjects For as you were sworn to the King so he was sworn to you as you were bound to be faithful to him so he was bound to be faithful to his trust nor is he your Liege further than he is faithful thereunto If then he be found unfaithful to his trust you are ipso facto absolved from your Allegiance unto him and if according to Law he receives not his Authority you are not in Law his Subjects at all Now the just and natural foundation of all Laws is the Reason of the Body of every Nation in their Parlament which hath the sole Right to propose and chuse the Laws by which they will be Ruled Where it hath been as I suppose a perpetual custom in this Nation for the Commons at all times to ask and propose the making of Laws and for the Lords and King to give their consent thereunto The Lords as the Judges in cases of transgression and the King as the Executor and publick Trustee for the administration of the common good and wealth thereby for in a Kingdom there is a Common-wealth as the intrinsical substance of the Being thereof for which all things are to be done by King and Lords as the publick servants thereof and Ministers not Masters of State therein If the King then should set himself wilfully to be above this Reason of the Nation which is the onely Original of the Law and refuse obstinately the Laws which they shall chuse to be setled he puts himself ipso facto out of the capacity of being a King any more unto them and if this can be made out to have been the way wherein the late King set himself and that it was the design of the House of Lords to uphold and enable him to follow that way it is evident that so far as he did by that means actually un-King himself as to this Nation so far also they that assisted him in that design did un-Lord themselves

Now is Christ set upon his throne Pag. 21. * Noble and resolute Commanders go on to fight the battels of the Lord Jesus Christ for so I will not now fear to call them Pag. 21. * All Christendom except the Malignants in England do now see that the question in England is whether Christ or Anti-christ shall be Lord and King Pag. 21. Ten thousand times cursed are they who have provoked Our Soveraign to raise Arms to destroy his Nobles and Commons and Divines and this most honoured City and even all who have been faithful Pag. 28. Mr. Stephen Marshal after Naseby fight in a Thanksgiving Sermon on Psal. 102. 18. ALL the Countries where the Gospel had prevail'd have faithsully stood to God in his cause the rest nurst up under Popery and Superstition both Lords Commons and Gentlemen and whole Commons did endeavour to fight themselves into slavery and labour to des●…roy the Parlament that is themselves and all that is theirs Mr. Marshal in his Sermon on Micah 7. 1 2. 1644. BElieve this cause must prosper though we were all dead our Armies overthrown and even our Palaments dissolved this cause must prevail Mr. Edmund Calamy in his Sermon before the House of Peers June 15. 1643. on Joshua 24. 15. REligion is that which is pretended on all hands The defence of the Protestant Religion this news we hear daily from Oxford and for this purpose there is an Army of Papists to defend Protestant Religion just as the Gun-powder Treason that would have blown up the Parlament for the good of the Catholike Religion Pag. 24. Few Noblemen and Gentlemen appear on the Parlament side not many mighty not many Noble thus it was in Christs time the great men and great Scholars crucified Christ. Pag. 30. The Cause you mannage is the Cause of God the glory of God is embark'd in the same Ship in which this cause is and you may lawfully say as Joshua does Josh. 7. 9. What wilt thou do unto thy great name and Numb 14. 15 16. And as Joshua said to Israel Numb 14. 7. So doth God to you fear not fear not the people of the land for they are bread for us their defence is departed from them and the Lord is with us fear them not Pag. 53. I may say without uncharitableness you have the major part of Gods people on your side Pag. 55. He that dies fighting the Lords battel dies a Martyr Pag. 57. Mr. Thomas Case in his Epistle Dedicatory to the Commons House in Parlament before his Sermon on Ezek. 20. 25. GOd in you hath graciously begun to make good that Evangelical promise Zech. 12. 8. In defending this his English Hierusalem he hath made him that was weak among you as David you have conquer'd the Lyon a●…d the Bear and shall not that uncircumcised Philistine that numerous Beast who hath not ceast to blaspheme the Armies os the Living God become like one of these behold ●… he lies groveling at your feet there wants nothing but cutting off his head They cryed down the S●…bbath as a ridiculous or at least a superfluous Ceremony Pag. XI * thus they make the King glad with their wickedness and he that could bring Jeroboam an argument to justifie his Idolatry he was a well-come man at Court Pag. 12. Mr. Case on Ezra 10. 2 3. Preach'd before the House of Commons SOme have sinn'd seducingly and Jesuites could never have been more desperate I am sure they might have been less guilty they have sinn'd against their light murthered their Principles they have suck'd in with their Mothers milk* spare them not I beseech you though they crouch and cringe and Worship you as much as they have done their high Altars Pag. 15. Ah Brethren I would not have you redeem their lives with your own heads Pag. 16. How the Presence and Preaching of Christ did scorch and blast those Cathedral Priests that unhallowed generation of * Scribes and Pharisees and perfected their Rebellion into that unpardonable sin against the holy Ghost Pag. 33. Mr. Case on Dan. XI 32. 1644. Before the House of commons on a day of Thanksgiving for the Victory given to Sir William Waller against the Army of Sir Ralph Hopton HAd not the Spirit of the Lord wrought to a wonder of wisdom and power we might have sate down long before this made our Wills an●… bequeath'd our poor children every one of them Popery and Slavery for their sorrowful Patrimony Pag. 9. Cursed be he that withholdeth his Sword from blood that spares when God saith strike that suffers those to escape whom God has appointed to destruction Pag. 24. Mr. Case on Isa. 43. 4. In a Thanksgiving for taking Bridgwater and Sherbourn * WHat a sad thing is it my Brethren to see our King in the head of an Army of Bahylonians refusing as it were to be call'd the King of England Scotland Ireland and chusing rather to be call'd the King of Babylon Pag. 18. Prelacy and Prelatical Clergy Priests and Jesuites Ceremonies and Service-Book Star-Chamber and High Commission Court were mighty impediments in the way of Reformation God hath mightily brought them down Pag. 19. * The Father having given to him Vid. Christ all power both in heaven and in earth and the rule and Regiment of this Kingdom he hath committed to Monarchies Aristocracies or Democracies as the several combinations and associations of the People shall between themselves think good to elect and erect God leaves people to their own Liberty in this Case Pag. 26. Mr. Thomas Case Psal. 107. 30 31. in his Thanksgiving Sermon for Surrender of Chester * ALas alas they have put out the eyes of his Majesty and carried him away Captive our King is in Babylon among Idolaters and Murtherers we have no King Mr. Joseph Caryl in his Sermon on Nehe. chap. 9. vers 38. Preach'd at the taking of the Covenant Octob. 6. 1643. THere is much sin in making a Covenant on sinful grounds and there is more sin in keeping it but when the preservation of true Religion and the Vindication of just Liberties meet in the ground-work yea may swear and not repent yea if you swear yea must not repent Pag. 18. Take the Covenant and ye take Babylon The Towers of Babylon shall quake and her seven hills shall move Pag. 21. It is Shiboleth to distinguish Ephramites from Gileadites Pag. 22. When we provoke God to bring evil upon us he stays his hand by considering the Covenant Gen. 9. 15. Now as the remembrance of the Covenant on Gods part stays his hand so the remembrance of the Covenant will be very effectual on our part to stay our hands tongues hearts from sin Pag. 27. Not onely is that Covenant which God hath made with us founded in the blood of Christ but that also which we make with God Pag. 33. Mr. Caryl on Revel XI vers 16 17. before the House of Commons April 23. 1644. OUr war has been proved over and over to