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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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Ans. 2 To the second (though more considerable) yet the answer is not very difficult: For
First, We do not sware to observe that Discipline, but to preserve it: I may preserve that, which in point of conscience I cannot observe, or not, at least, sware to observe.
Secondly, We sware to preserve it, not in opposition to any other form of Government that may be found agreeable to the Word, but in opposition against a common Enemy, which is a clause of so wide a latitude and easy a digestion, as the ⟨p. 43⟩tenderest conscience need not kick at it; This preservation relating not so much to the Government, as to the persons or Nation under this Government, not so much to preserve it, as to preserve them in it, against a Prelatical Party at home, or a Popish Party abroad, that should attempt by violence to destroy them, or to force another Government upon them, that should be against the Word of God; under which latitude, I see not but we might enter into the like Covenant with Lutherans, or other Reformed Churches, whose Government, Discipline, and Worship, is yet exceedingly corrupted with degenerate mixtures.
Secondly, We sware to preserve it, not in opposition to any other forme of Government that may be found agreeable to the Word, but in opposition against a common Enemy, which is a clause of so wide a latitude and easie a digestion, as the ⟨p. 43⟩tenderest conscience need not kick at it; This preservation relating not so much to the Government, as to the persons or Nation under this Government, not so much to preserve it, as to preserve them in it, against a Prelaticall Party at home, or a Popish Party abroad, that should attempt by violence to destroy them, or to force another Government upon them, that should be against the Word of God; under which latitude, I see not but we might enter into the like Covenant with Lutherans, or other Reformed Churches, whose Government, Discipline, and Worship, is yet exceedingly corrupted with degenerate mixtures.