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<HEAD>A Challenge, by the Divines of the Army, to the Divines of Sion-Colledge: Concerning <HI>THE LEAGUE AND COVENANT.</HI></HEAD>
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<Q>Every Plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted &s;hall bee rooted up <HI>Math. 15.13.</HI></Q>
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<P>IN your Exhortation for taking the Covenant, 'tis &s;aid; That Oathes not warranted by the Lawes of God and the Land, call for Repentance and not Pertinacy (in tho&s;e that have taken them) and con&s;equently, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">ey are not to bee taken by others.</P>
<P>Hence we make this Quere:</P>
<P>By what <HI>Law of God and the Land, re&s;pectively,</HI> the Noble men, Barons, Knights, Gentlemen, Citizens, Burge&s;&s;es, Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pell, and Commons of all &s;orts, in the kingdomes, of England, Scotland, and Ireland, are Warranted, <HI>without, and again&s;t, the Command of their Re&s;pective King,</HI> to enter into League, and to Sweare and Covenant, <HI>to Intermeddle of them|&s;elves Mutually in each kingdome</HI> in point of Religion, to Alteration (as in the fir&s;t Article) And to Extirpation (as in the &s;econd Article) And in point of the Priviledges of the Parliaments and of the Liberties of the &s;everal King|domes, and of the per&s;on and Authoritie of the King in each kingdome (as in the third Article) And of the Conjunction of the kingdomes in a firme Peace and Union to all Po&s;terity (as in the fift Article) And to a&s;&s;i&s;t and defend, in each kingdome, all tho&s;e that adhere to them (as in the &s;ixt Article) And to bring to condigne puni&s;hment, in each Kingdome, all that oppo&s;e them (as in the fourth Article) And la&s;tly, To encourage the Peo|ple of other States and Churches to joyne in the &s;ame, or like A&s;&s;ociation and Covenant (as in the Conclu&s;ion thereof.)</P>
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<HEAD>The Challenge upon the Quere.</HEAD>
<P>NOw if you can cleerly &s;et forth, <HI>The Law of God and the Land re&s;pectively warrantiug this Covenant,</HI> Wee al&s;o will readily take it: If you cannot (according to your owne Principles) <HI>Repent,</HI> that you have taken it, and ex|horted others to take it, and that at this time you pre&s;&s;e the ob&s;erving and keeping of it.</P>
<P>How much better were it (after his Maje&s;ties return to the Parliament, which we both &s;eeme to de&s;ire) That the differences in Religion be freely debated and &s;tated by us in a publique Convention (as the Civill differen|ces are like to be in Parliament) And all e&s;tabli&s;hed according to the re&s;ults of Truth and Ju&s;tice, rather then to be prejudged by you, and your unwar|ranted, and to be repented of; <HI>Engli&s;h-Scotti&s;h-Iri&s;h Covenant.</HI></P>
<P><HI>As</HI> Jannes &amp; Jambres <HI>with&s;tood</HI> Mo&s;es, <HI>&s;o doe you al&s;o re&s;i&s;t the Truth: but you &s;hall proceede no farther, for your folly &s;hall be manife&s;t to all men, as theirs al&s;o was.</HI> Tim. 1.3.9.</P>
<P><HI>You are blind leaders of the blind, and if the blind lead the blind, both &s;hall fall in|to the Ditch.</HI> Mat 15.13.</P>
<P>And let all your Party know, that after this Conviction, 'tis not as you Preach, Fidelity and Con&s;tancy; but as your Exhortation declares, Perti|nacy and Ob&s;tinacy for them to pur&s;ue or owne this illegall and unju&s;tifia|ble League and Covenant.</P>
<P><HI>And if they &s;in wilfully after they have received the knowledge of the Truth, there remains no more Sacrifice for &s;ins. But a certain fearfull looking for, of judge|ment and firy Indignation which &s;hall devoure the Adver&s;aries.</HI> Heb. 10.26.27.</P>
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