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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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5. And lastly, This Clause is not to be understood exclusive, as excluding all other Cases wherein the Kingdoms stand bound to preserve his Majesties Person and Authority, but only pro subjecta materià, as expressing that case wherein the safety of his Person and Authority, doth most highly concern both King and Kingdoms, especially at such a time as this is, when both are so furiously and implacably encountered by a malignant Army of desperate parricides, Papists and their Prelatical party.
5. And lastly, This Clause is not to be understood exclusive, as excluding all other Cases wherein the Kingdoms stand bound to preserve his Majesties Person and Authority, but onely pro subjecta materià, as expressing that case wherein the safety of his Person and Authority, doth most highly concern both King and Kingdoms, especially at such a time as this is, when both are so furiously and implaceably encountred by a malignant Army of desperate parricides, Papists and their Prelaticall party.
These Objections answered, and Difficulties removed, we proceed to the examining of the rest of the particulars, in the following Articles.
The discovery of incendiaries or malignants that have been, or shall be: To which the fourth Article binds us: 1Doth it not lie also in a necessary tendency to the securing and preserving of this Covenant inviolable with the Most High God, in point of Reformation? For can we hope a thorough Reformation, according to the mind of Christ, if opposers of Reformation may escape scot-free, undiscovered and unpunished? or can we indeed love or promote a Reformation, and in the mean time countenance or conceal the enemies of it?