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<HEAD>THE
Hearty Concurrence of divers Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of <HI>London;</HI> with the Mini&s;ters
of the Province thereof, to their Te&s;timony to the Truth of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> and to our Solemne
<HI>LEAGUE</HI> and <HI>COVENANT.</HI>
As al&s;o again&s;t the Errours, Here&s;ies, and Bla&s;phemies of the&s;e times, and the Tolle|ration
of them.</HEAD>
<P>_THE Ine&s;timable value of Truth which undeniably claimes God the Father to be the Authour, Je&s;us Chri&s;t the Purcha&s;er, and the Holy
Spirit of God the revealer of it, the zealous practices of the faithfull witne&s;&s;es of Je&s;us Chri&s;t in former ages oppo&s;ing errours by their
valiant &s;ealing to the truth with their blood, the painfull preaching pious practices, and learned writings of our late faithfull Mini|&s;ters
now with God: As Mr. <HI>Egerton,</HI> Mr. <HI>Stocke,</HI> Mr. <HI>Randal,</HI> Doctor <HI>Sibs,</HI> Dr. <HI>Pre&s;ton,</HI> Dr. <HI>Taylor,</HI> Dr. <HI>Stoughton,</HI> Mr. <HI>Elton,</HI> with many
others, together with our pre&s;ent vigilant Spirituall watchmen in the Province of <HI>London,</HI> honoured in being the fir&s;t which brake the
Ice in their zealous contention for truth again&s;t errour when it was highe&s;t, them&s;elves (we hope) at lowe&s;t; Together with the faithfull
Mini&s;ters of Je&s;us Chri&s;t in the Counties of <HI>Warwicke, Gloce&s;ter,</HI> and that heart-warming harmonious con&s;ent of the Mini&s;ters of the
County of <HI>Lanca&s;ter;</HI> And, the &s;erious con&s;ideration of the mo&s;t ob&s;erveable acts of Gods grace to this City, as well of old, as of
later dayes; our late afflictions, di&s;honours, and reproaches ca&s;t upon us for our neutrality, lukewarmne&s;&s;e, formality, the cloud of bloud
&s;till hanging over our heads, the &s;parkles of Gods wrath &s;cattered among&s;t us, the fearefull frownes of our ju&s;tly angry God again&s;t us, manife&s;ted in &s;everall
&s;ymptomes: La&s;tly, that wee in our places might contribute &s;omething wherein we might the more firmely ingage our &s;elves to the truth, incourage the truly
godly, recover &s;ome which are mi&s;led, &s;trengthen them who are ready to fall, fill the faces of Heretiques, prophane per&s;ons, lukewarme Pollititians with
&s;hame (that &s;o they might &s;eeke the face of God in Je&s;us Chri&s;t) advance Covenanted Reformation; And, which is not the lea&s;t, our con&s;ciou&s;ne&s;&s;e of Chri|&s;tian
duty lying upon us, being as fire in our bowells, &s;o that we can no longer forbeare, le&s;t God &s;pew us out of his mouth, and wee be a reproach to the Go|&s;pell;
The deepe and due con&s;ideration of the&s;e and many other &s;uch like weighty incitations doe mo&s;t &s;eriou&s;ly put us upon this worke to imitate our
faithfull Pa&s;tors in contending for Truth again&s;t Errour; for piety again&s;t prophanene&s;&s;e, and for our Solemne League and Covenant again&s;t all oppo&s;ers in
the&s;e few en&s;uing particulars.</P>
<P>I. Wee te&s;tifie to all the World, That it is the earne&s;t de&s;ires of our &s;oules that the humble advice of the A&s;&s;embly of Divines by Authority of Parlia|ment
&s;itting at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter,</HI> concerning the Confe&s;&s;ion of Faith, abundantly &s;atisfactory to us, for its purity, &s;ollidity, and conformity to the holy Scriptures,
the two Catechi&s;mes both the larger and le&s;&s;er may bee e&s;tabli&s;hed among us by Civill &s;anction, with the Church-Government.</P>
<P>II. Wee doe hereby al&s;o declare again&s;t all tho&s;e un&s;ound Opinions, Errours, Here&s;ies, and Bla&s;phemies, already enumerated by our godly Pa&s;tors in their
Te&s;timony: As al&s;o &s;ome others &s;ince publi&s;hed,<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg">A Te|&s;timony to an approa|ching glo|ry, <HI>per Jo|&s;hua Sprig,</HI> Pag. 65.</NOTE> <HI>viz. That while we are weake we know not the love of the Father to us; But thinke that Je&s;us Chri&s;t doth procure the
love of the Father; when as Je&s;us Chri&s;t doth but manife&s;t and declare the love of the Father.</HI><NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">The life of Chri&s;t Printed 1648. p. 2.</NOTE> Another, <HI>That Chri&s;t is not borne of the bloud of</HI> Adam, <HI>but from Heaven.</HI>
All which Tenets wee looke upon as contrary to the Analogie of Faith, and paterne of &s;ound words; and therefore with the Mini&s;ters that are gone
before us, Wee doe te&s;tifie and declare our utter di&s;like of Anabapti&s;me, Browni&s;me, Erra&s;tiani&s;me, Independencie, and Prelacie; &s;o al&s;o our &s;oules
abhorrencie and vehement dete&s;tation of Anti&s;cripturi&s;me, Sociniani&s;me, Arminiani&s;me, Arriani&s;me, Antinomiani&s;me, Popery, and Antitrinitariani&s;me,
with many others.</P>
<P>III. Wee de&s;ire to expre&s;&s;e our hearty &s;orrow for, and dete&s;tation of all tho&s;e gracele&s;&s;e cau&s;es, and ungodly practices of the&s;e Apo&s;tatizing times, as pro|phane
&s;wearing, drunkenne&s;&s;e, Sabbath-breaking, oppre&s;&s;ion, which are God-provoking, and Kingdome-de&s;troying abominations, not to be named among&s;t
Chri&s;tians: All that oppo&s;ition to Reformation, hypocriticall pur&s;uing of fal&s;e intere&s;ts under &s;pecious pretences of publique good, all which are again&s;t
piety towards God, Ju&s;tice, Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e and Sobriety towards men, laying us naked to Divine vengeance, and rendering us a people fitted for de&s;truction,
therefore we de&s;ire to be &s;en&s;ible of the&s;e provocations, and to &s;tir up our &s;elves, and all the godly in this Kingdome to di&s;claime again&s;t them, and endeavour
in their and our places to reforme them according to our Covenant.</P>
<P>IV. Our di&s;like &s;hall we &s;ay? That's too little, nay rather our dete&s;tation of that wicked de&s;ign of the Sectarian prophane party, who endeavour to extirpate
and
expell from among&s;t us, our learned, godly, and con&s;cientious Mini&s;ters, declaiming again&s;t their per&s;ons by uncivill &s;coffes, and again&s;t their Calling as
Antichri&s;tian, and by detaining not onely a plentifull, but even a competent maintenance, under pretence of unlawfulne&s;&s;e of tythes, which makes us invo|cate
the Lord, that they may never have power to accompli&s;h this execrable de&s;igne, nor we have cau&s;e &s;adly to &s;igh, and &s;ay, our Teachers are removed into
corners.</P>
<P>V. Wee declare our hearty de&s;ires, That the Government of Je&s;us Chri&s;t (according to our Covenant, and the advice of the A&s;&s;embly of Divines) may bee
e&s;tabli&s;hed among&s;t us, a ta&s;te whereof in that little part of it which is &s;et up among&s;t us, we looke not upon as Arbitrary and Tyrannicall, yea to have it
compleated would be our Glory and Crowne of rejoycing; utterly di&s;liking the oppo&s;ition it meets withall: And, oh that we knew what to do for the &s;up|pre&s;&s;ing
that oppo&s;ition by loo&s;e and prophane per&s;ons on the one hand, and on the other by &s;uch as &s;eparate, and highly contend for that Great; <HI>Diana</HI> the
<HI>Compendium</HI> of all mi&s;chiefes concentred in that one word, <HI>Toleration.</HI></P>
<P>VI. La&s;tly, but not lea&s;t of all, as for the Covenant, our Solemne League and Covenant, as we heartily rejoyce that wee tooke it, that it was commended to
the Kingdome by the Parliament, and taken by &s;o many in both Kingdomes with their hands lifted up to Heaven, &s;o al&s;o we de&s;ire to be afflicted in our &s;oules
with &s;hame and &s;orrow for the violation of it, either by our &s;elves or others, but mo&s;t of all for that &s;tupendious wickedne&s;&s;e and matchle&s;&s;e impiety in
villifying and contemning that Sacred Oath, even by too too many that entered into it and covenanted with us; doubtle&s;&s;e that faithfull God who keepeth
Covenant with us, will avenge the quarrell of this Covenant broken by us, unle&s;&s;e prevented by Repentance and Reformation: And as we look upon it as a duty
belonging to all to take it, and therefore blame the non-taking of it by any; &s;o we declare our utter di&s;like of the &s;lighters and contemners of it, and earne&s;tly
de&s;ire the taking of it by all, be not onely commended, but commanded by Authority.</P>
<P>As for our &s;elves, it is our de&s;ire, and &s;hall be our con&s;tant endeavours in the &s;trength of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, maugre all malice and oppo&s;ition what&s;oever, to keep
it, and to pur&s;ue all the ends contained in it, in the plaine, literall, grammaticall &s;en&s;e of it, in the which we then tooke it, abominating all other glo&s;&s;es upon
it, and doe with the Mini&s;ters of <HI>London,</HI> and el&s;ewhere, declare that we beleeve in our con&s;ciences, no power on earth what&s;oever can ab&s;olve us from the bond
of that Covenant.</P>
<P>In Te&s;timony whereof, as in the pre&s;ence of the Lord, in the integrity of our hearts we hereunto &s;ub&s;cribe our names.</P>
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