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The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three…The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three…
The quarrel of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrel. Delivered in three sermons on Levit. 26. 25. and Jere. 50. 5. / By Thomas Case, preacher of the Word in Milk-street, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.The quarrell of the covenant, with the pacification of the quarrell. Delivered in three sermons on Levit. 26. 25. and Jere. 50. 5. / By Thomas Case, preacher of the Word in Milk-street, London; and one of the Assembly of Divines.
London: printed for Luke Fawne, 1643
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Now, That this is the main scope and aim of this Covenant before us, will appear if you read and ponder it with due considerations; I will therefore read it to you distinctly, this Evening, besides the reading of it again to morrow, when you come to take it; and when I have read it, I will answer the main, and most material objections, which seem to make it inconsistent with these blessed ends and purposes.
Now, That this is the main scope and aym of this Covenant before us, will appear if you read and ponder it with due considerations; I will therefore read it to you distinctly, this Evening, besides the reading of it again to morrow, when you come to take it; and when I have read it, I will answer the main, and most materiall objections, which seem to make it inconsist•nt with these blessed ends and purposes.
Attend diligently while I read it to you.
The Covenant. WE Noblemen, 1Barons, 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 public Liberty, Safety, and Peace of the Kingdoms, wherein every ones private condition is included, and calling to mind the treacherous and bloody Plots, Conspiracies, Attempts, and Practices 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 state 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 public 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 Ruin 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 our hands lifted up to the most high God, do swear: