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<BYLINE>BY THE KING of Kings his Prophets:</BYLINE>
<HEAD>A Proclamation concerning the Covenant and League of the People of <HI>GOD,</HI> to joyne together with the Parliament in the great worke of the Lord, again&s;t the enemie that hath brought all the&s;e mi&s;eries upon us.</HEAD>
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<NOTE PLACE="foot">a <HI>E&s;ay.</HI> 34.1.</NOTE> neer yee Nations to heare and hearken ye people let the earth heare, and all that is therein, the world, and all things that come forth of it.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">b <HI>Amos</HI> 1.11.</NOTE> Thus, &s;aith the Lord, For three tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion of E. and for foure, I will not turne away the puni&s;hment thereof: becau&s;e hee did pur&s;ue his brother with the &s;word, and did ca&s;t of all pittie, and his anger did teare perpetually, and kept his wrath for ever
<NOTE PLACE="foot">c <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 1.7.</NOTE> Your Country is de&s;o|late, your Cities are burnt with fire: your Land &s;trangers devoure it in your pre&s;ence, and it is de&s;olate, as overthrown by &s;trangers.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">d <HI>Ieremiah</HI> 4.18, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> Thy ways and thy doings have procured the&s;e things unto thee, this is thy wickedne&s;&s;e becau&s;e it is bitter, becau&s;e it reacheth unto thine heart. My bowels, my bowels, I am pained at my very heart, my heart maketh a noi&s;e in me, I cannot hold my peace, becau&s;e thou ha&s;t heard, &ocirc; my &s;oule, the &s;ound of the Trumpet, the Alarm of War. De&s;truction upon de&s;truction is cried, for the whole Land is &s;poiled: &s;odainly are my tents &s;poi|led, and my curtains in a moment. How long &s;hall I &s;ee the Standard, and heare the &s;ound of the Trumpet? For my people is fooli&s;h, they have not known me, they are &s;otti&s;h, and they have no knowledge (<HI>&s;aith the Lord</HI>)
<NOTE PLACE="foot">e <HI>Ezra</HI> 1.5.</NOTE> Then ro&s;e up the chief of the Fathers with all them who&s;e &s;pirit God had rai&s;ed to go up, to build the Hou&s;e of the Lord.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">f <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 6.</NOTE> And all they which were about them, &s;trengthened their hands with ve&s;&s;els of &s;ilver, with gole, with goods, and with pretious things, be&s;ides all that was willingly offered.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">g <HI>Ezra</HI> 4.1.</NOTE> Now the adver&s;aries
<NOTE PLACE="foot">h <HI>ver.</HI> 4.</NOTE> weakned the handsof the people and troubled them.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">i <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 8</NOTE> Wrote a Letter to the King in this &s;ort.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">k <HI>ver.</HI> 13. <HI>&amp;</HI> 14.</NOTE> Be it known unto the King, that if this Citie be builded, and the walls &s;et up again, then will they not pay Toll, Tribute and Cu&s;tome, and &s;o thou &s;halt endamage the Revenues of Kings. Now becau&s;e we have maintenance from the Kings Palace, and it was not meet for us to &s;ee the King di&s;honoured: therefore have wee &s;ent, and certified the King.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">l <HI>Nehemiah,</HI> 4.7, &amp; 8.</NOTE> They were very wrath. And con&s;pired all of them together,
<NOTE PLACE="foot">m <HI>ver.</HI> 11.</NOTE> to &s;lay them, and cau&s;e the work to cea&s;e.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">n <HI>Nehemi.</HI> 9.38.</NOTE> And becau&s;e of this, <HI>the</HI> Princes make a &s;ure Covenant, and write it, and &s;eal unto it.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">o <HI>Nehemiah</HI> 10 28, &amp; 29.</NOTE> And the re&s;t of the people, and all they that had &s;eperated them|&s;elves feom the people of the Lands unto the Law of God, their wives, their &s;ons, and their daughters, every one having know|ledge, and having under&s;tanding. They clave to their brethren, their Nobles, and entred into a Cur&s;e, and into and oath, to walk in Gods Law, which was given by <HI>Mo&s;es,</HI> the &s;ervant of God, and to ob&s;erve and doe all the Commandements of the Lord our God, and his judgments, and his Statutes.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">p <HI>E&s;ay</HI> 49.5.</NOTE> And though <HI>the Church</HI> be not gathered, yet &s;hall <HI>they</HI> be glorious in the eies of the Lord, and God &s;hall be their &s;trength.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">q <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 8, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> Thus &s;aith the Lord, in an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of Salvation have I helped thee: and I will pre&s;erve thee, and give thee for a Covenant of the people, to e&s;tabli&s;h the earth to cau&s;e to inherit the de&s;olate heritage. That thou mai&s;t &s;ay to the Pri&s;oners, goe forth to them that are in darkne&s;&s;e, &s;hew your &s;elves, they &s;hall feede in the wayes, and their Pa&s;ture &s;hall be in all high places. They &s;hall not hunger nor thir&s;t, nei|ther &s;hall the heat nor &s;un &s;mite them, for he that hath mercie on them &s;hall lead them, even by the &s;prings of water &s;hall hee guide them.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">r <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 13.10.</NOTE> I will be thy King (<HI>&s;aith the Lord</HI>) where is any other that may &s;ave thee in all thy Cities?
<NOTE PLACE="foot">&s; <HI>Ho&s;ea</HI> 13.9.</NOTE> Thou ha&s;t de&s;troyed thy &s;el&s;e, but in me is thy helpe.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="foot">t <HI>Ieremiah</HI> 51.63, 64</NOTE> It &s;hall be when thou ha&s;t made an end of reading this booke, that thou &s;hall binde a &s;tone to it, and ca&s;t it into the mid&s;t of Euphrates. And thou &s;halt &s;ay. Thus &s;hall Babylon &s;inke, and &s;hall not ri&s;e from the evill that I will bring upon her: And they &s;hall be weary.
<NOTE PLACE="foot">v <HI>Mallachy</HI> 4.1, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></NOTE> For behold the day cometh, that &s;hall burne as an Oven, and all the proude, yea, and all that doe wickedly &s;hall be as &s;tubble, and the day that cometh &s;hall burne them up, &s;aith the Lord of Ho&s;ts, that it &s;hall leave them nei|ther roote nor branch. But unto you that fear my name &s;hall the &s;onne of righteou &s;ne&s;&s;e ari&s;e with healing in his wings, and ye &s;hall goe forth, and grow up as calves of the &s;tall. And ye &s;hall tread downe the wicked, for they &s;hall bee a&s;hes under the &s;oules of your feete, in the day that I &s;hall doe this &s;aith the Lord of Ho&s;ts.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given by the Prophets, as it is written in the holy Word of God out of which it is collected, London <DATE>thes 25 of March. 1644.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<P>London, Printed, by Andrew Coe, and <HI>pub|li&s;hed accordeng to Order, for the u&s;e of the two united Kingdomes of England and Scotland, Auno Domini,</HI> M DC XLIV,</P>
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