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The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the…
The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipful the sheriffs, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-council of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemn League and Covenant was renewed by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London.The great danger of covenant-refusing, and covenant-breaking. Presented in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable Thomas Adams Lord Mayor, and the Right Worshipfull the sheriffes, and the aldermen his brethren, and the rest of the Common-councell of the famous City of London, Jan. 14. 1645. Upon which day the solemne League and Covenant was renued by them and their officers with prayer and fasting at Michael Basinshaw, London. / By Edmund Calamy, B.D. and pastor of Aldermanbury London.
London: printed by M.F. for Christopher Meredith, 1646
The great danger of Covenant-refusing, and Covenant-breaking.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Are there not many amongst us that scorn it and speak reproachfully of it? That deal with it as the Children of Israel did with Manna, which at first they did so highly value, as that they could not be kept within doors from gathering of it,1 no not upon the Sabbath day; but afterwards they came to loathe it as much as ever before they loved it. And do not we deal so with the Covenant?
- 1Quest. 1.
2.1 Are there not some that write against it, and that say in effect, That the perjury that is committed about it, is rather in taking of it then in breaking of it, and that it was not a right, but a rash oath? which I speak not only to the shame of those that write thus, but also to the shame of those that suffer such things to be written and to go unquestioned.
- 1Quest. 2.
3.1 Are there not some that put corrupt glosses upon it, and deal falsely in the Covenant? that say, that by virtue of the Covenant all Ministers are bound to renounce their ministry, (even that ministry which God hath blessed and put his seal unto by the conversion of thousands) and either to take it up again by Ordination from the people; or if we find no warrant in the Word for that way, then to turn Seekers, and to wait till God send Apostles to ordain Ministers? And yet these men cannot but know that the Parliament in their Ordinance for Ordination of Ministers, have declared, that this is not the meaning of the Covenant. Others there are that