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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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Secondly, Whereas they object, that many shall swear to they know not what, the most being totally ignorant of the Discipline of Scotland, and very few understanding it distinctly. I would have these remember and consider two examples in Scripture, the one of King Josiah, 2the other of the Women and children in Nehemiahs time. Josiah (as the Text tells us) not being above eight years of age; as Vers. 3. While he was yet young, began to seek after the Lord God of David, his Father; and in the twelfth year, he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem, &c. And this purging and Reformation he did by Covenant, wherein he sware, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his Commandments, and his Testimonies and his Statutes. Which surely, at that age we cannot conceive he did distinctly and universally understand; no more could all the Men their Wives, and their Sons, and their Daughters, that took the Covenant (in Nehemiahs time) understand all things in particular to which that Covenant did bind them; since they did enter into a Gurse, and an Oath, not only to refuse all inter-marriages with the Heathen, as Vers. 30. but also to walk in Gods Law, which was given by Moses, and to observe and do all the Commandments of the Lord, and his judgements and his Statutes.
Secondly, Whereas they object, that many shall swear to they know not what, the most being totally ignorant of the Discipline of Scotland, and very few understanding it distinctly. I would have these remember and consider two examples in Scripture, the one of King Josiah, 2the other of the Women and children in Nehemiahs time. Josiah (as the Text tells us) not being above eight yeers of age; as Vers. 3. While he was yet young, began to seek after the Lord God of David, his Father; and in the twelfth yeer, he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem, &c. And this purging and Reformation he did by Covenant, wherein he sware, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his Commandements, and his Testimonies and his Statutes. Which surely, at that age we cannot conceive he did distinctly and universally understand; no more could all the Men their Wives, and their Sons, and their Daughters, that took the Covenant (in Nehemiahs time) understand all things inparticular to which that Covenant did binde them; since they did enter into a Gurse, and an Oath, not onely to refuse all inter-marriages with the Heathen, as Vers. 30. but also to walk in Gods Law, which was given by Moses, and to observe and do all the Commandments of the Lord, and his judgements and his Statutes.