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<HEAD>NOAH'S DOVE, with a green Olive-Leaf, OR, The <HI>National Covenant,</HI> and <HI>Solemn League</HI> Renewed.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">That it was Antecedently a Duty, before it was made and &s;worn, delineated and proved To what; and how far it was Obligatory.</HEAD>
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<BIBL>Zechariah Ch: 14:</BIBL>
<Q>He &s;hall be King over all the Earth! His Name ONE.</Q>
<BIBL>John 17: 11: v:</BIBL>
<Q>Chri&s;ts mouth prays for a &s;pecifick &V;nion.</Q>
<Q><L>Octoge&s;imus, Octavus, mirabilis Annus,</L>
<L>Clade Papi&s;tarum fau&s;tus ubique piis.</L></Q>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>To the &s;uffering Remnant, of the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> Reformed Church in <HI>Scotland.</HI></SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe BIBLE a&s;&s;ures us, <HI>The Earth &s;hall di&s;clo&s;e her Dead, and no more cover her &s;lain.</HI> The Widows <HI>bloody napkin</HI> crys, <HI>how long!</HI> GODS book is by Him, and His bottle by Him, He will hold a Court of Oppre&s;&s;ion, <HI>P&s;alm 9. Antichri&s;t</HI> has carried the Grapes of Chri&s;ts Fle&s;h into the Wine-pre&s;s of the wrath of GOD, and &s;queezed it by wicked men, who are GODS Hands and his Sword, <HI>&s;ayeth David,</HI> yet he keeps the handle in his own hand: Tho no &s;imple National or Per&s;onal intere&s;t, can an&s;wer the great De&s;ign of God either in his Glorious Manife&s;tation! or Marvellous Di&s;pen&s;ation, a <HI>Wheal in a Wheel,</HI> and <HI>Hand under the Wing,</HI> or by <HI>Blazing Comet;</HI> in the 1681: and 1682: whereon we ob&s;erved, <HI>then</HI> in Print, what was relative to the ri&s;e, reign, ruine <HI>of the man of &s;in.</HI> Yet as <HI>I&s;rael</HI> a cho&s;en Family of old, &s;o other nations &s;ince may be &s;aid, to be more dear, and near GOD! Whom He brings into the &s;chool of Correction, when others are brought in|to the place of Execution, el&s;e we had been as <HI>Sodom;</HI> witne&s;s that famous <HI>Bohemian</HI> Mar|tyr, a Noble Man, ardently in pri&s;on, imploring the <HI>Mediator</HI> for a &s;ign of that poor Churches Re&s;tauration, and accordingly <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Rain-Bow</HI> appeared over the Execution place; and he &s;ung that <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 85. 17. A &s;ymptome that GOD will rake up the A&s;hes of that Church, as Ours upon the&s;e Con&s;iderations.</P>
<P><LABEL>Con: 1.</LABEL> We were previou&s;ly bound to extirpat <HI>Popery,</HI> which is <HI>Idolatry,</HI> overturning the Foundation of Religion, either in flat terms, or by con&s;equence of the <HI>Co&s;&s;andrian</HI> Do|ctrine, who&s;e <HI>League</HI> makers we enervat, in that Book printed in 1<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">8<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">: Entituled, <HI>Scot|land pulling down the gates of Rome:</HI> Proving the difficulty of the Salvation of a <HI>Papi&s;t</HI> living and dying in <HI>Perjury</HI> and <HI>Idolatry. The&s;&s;:</HI> 2 Ch: 11: v: No Faith, no Covenant, keep either to GOD, or Man, but kill, murder and de&s;troy, &s;uch truculent practices are Mercenary duties, witne&s;s their own <HI>Patriots,</HI> and the <HI>Je&s;uits morals.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>Con: 2.</LABEL> Prelacy in <HI>Scotland,</HI> is a bitter <HI>Sprig</HI> of the &s;ame Tree, &s;pringing from the verge of the <HI>Civil Roman Empire,</HI> as Learned <HI>Burnet</HI> and <HI>Baxter</HI> delineats! It's true the Univer|&s;ity of <HI>Salmon</HI> &s;ay: that there is no model of <HI>Primitive Church di&s;cipline,</HI> but that God hath left, in <HI>equilibrio</HI> to humane choice. (When all Divines agree, that the E&s;&s;entials of a <HI>Church Officer,</HI> are in ruling as well as teaching.) But they afterwards check them&s;elves in a Recantation. The Laws of <HI>England,</HI> &s;ay, we grant, and we give to the <HI>Clergy,</HI> the Title of <HI>Lords, Jure Carolino,</HI> but go near, to make it Trea&s;on, if they &s;hould plead <HI>Jure Divino.</HI> tho we, derogare, nothing from the <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> of <HI>Englands</HI> due worth: re&s;embling in their Lives more the <HI>Scripture Bi&s;hops</HI> then ours! Pious <HI>&V;&s;her</HI> calls him&s;elf <HI>Primus Presbyteriorum.</HI> Yet their Famous Hi&s;torian, <HI>Holing&s;head</HI> commen&s;urates the dimentions of the <HI>Primitive Bi&s;hops,</HI> according to their Pa&s;toral Relation; <HI>unus Epi&s;copus</HI> was the note of their individination. And <HI>Ignatius</HI> requires to know, their flock by name, denominating their Church, <HI>Frater|nity, Con&s;ociation,</HI> Or <HI>Presbytery.</HI> Taking <HI>Epi&s;copacy</HI> of over&s;ight willingly! <HI>Pamelius, Alba&s;pi|neus.</HI> Hence there is no Delegation, of teaching and ruling Power, e&s;tabli&s;hing <HI>non re&s;i|dency:</HI> Can the <HI>Privy Seal</HI> of a Nation delegat his Charge, <HI>Chri&s;ts Royal Prie&s;thood,</HI> to the hands of <HI>Hirelings,</HI> who&s;e Sword is on their right Arm, and right Eye utterly Darkned Which we have di&s;cu&s;&s;ed in the <HI>Di&s;cipline</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;tian Religion,</HI> Printed in the 84 So that a <HI>Scripture Bi&s;hop,</HI> is nothing el&s;e &s;ave a Pre&s;es or Speaker in a <HI>Parliament,</HI> el&s;e its Oligar|thical Tyrranny! Thus of the Authority which the Lord hath given to us not for de|&s;truction, but for your Edification again&s;t <HI>Popery</HI> which is Idolatry, Prelacy: Perjury, Tolerarion, a Grave for Reformation.</P>
<P><LABEL>Con: 3.</LABEL> We do not retreat from a po&s;itive <HI>Divine Law,</HI> to a <HI>Covenant Law,</HI> Save when <HI>Johns</HI> and <HI>I&s;rael</HI> Prince and People, enter in a Solemn Covenant, the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">eath wherto
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in Perjury and Blood&s;hed; GOD avengeth and expiateth by a Thunderbolt of his wrath on the race of <HI>Saul</HI> for many years after. As al&s;o <HI>Almerick</HI> King of <HI>Jeru&s;alem, &V;ladi&s;lains</HI> break|eth Covenant with the <HI>Turks, Herold</HI> la&s;t King of the <HI>Danes</HI> in <HI>England!</HI> Nor can we &s;helter our &s;elves by the Irregularities of <HI>Jo&s;huas</HI> Covenant, for they do not annihilat the Obliga|tion; it being only the &s;infuln<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s of the matter &s;worn, not the circum&s;tances conver&s;ant about the Act of Swearing Tho <HI>Jephtha</HI> &s;hould be robbed of their deare&s;t delights and <HI>Zedekiah,</HI> be&s;ieged with Tumults within and Warrs without! Hea<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ken <HI>Bi&s;hop Hall,</HI> the facilite of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> led them into a Covenant, yet mo&s;t they not in ringe their Oath, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> King <HI>Charles</HI> 1&s;t, advi&s;es to keep Covenant in all Ju&s;t wayes to his Son King <HI>Charles</HI> the 2d. The Kirk of <HI>Scotland</HI> was unite 54 years by means of Di&s;cipline. Learned <HI>Bi&s;hop Sander&s;on</HI> grants the vanity of that Di&s;tinction: Relaxation of the matter and of the Oath! But &s;ome &s;ay, a King cannot be under the Laws of Federacy. But &s;ay I, how then is he under the Laws of <HI>Matrimonie.</HI></P>
<P><LABEL>Con:</LABEL> My will contracts according to what my knowledge reacheth: mutually e&s;pou&s;|ing Per&s;ons, Lives, Goods, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> The Commons E&s;pou&s;ing, the Mini&s;ters, in re&s;cuing, them from Death: tho we have been Eye Witne&s;s to the Pilla<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ing, R<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">bbing, yea Murdering 1<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">00 and 5<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> men, 9 Women; within the&s;e 27 years who &s;ealed this with their Blood. We &s;hall for Antiquity of <HI>Presbytery,</HI> refer you to he convyance of <HI>Presbytery</HI> done by us. Hence to be the witne&s;s to tho&s;e Barbarities, where Mens hearts were &s;hot thorow their Backs, and No&s;es &s;hot thorow their Necks, in the open Field, and many died in the Mountains, <HI>and not in their &s;tation.</HI> To a&s;&s;i&s;t made us as guilty as we had been the Actors; And this we may read love in GODS Heart, yet there is wrath in His Hands (till we humble our &s;elves under the Mighty Hand of GOD, by &s;incere Fa&s;ting and Prayer) &s;eeing a volumn betwixt the Sun and the Earth could not contain our Perju<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ies, Apo&s;ta|cys, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Chri&s;ts dethroning &s;upremacy, yea, exqui&s;ite tortoring by Boots, by Pricks, Thumikens, and fire matche&s;s drowning Women very young, of &s;ome exceeding Aged. Yet &s;ure I am: Tho' I cannot Determine, whether it &s;hall be by a Formal <HI>Sworn Covenant:</HI> or more Glorious Manife&s;tation: that CHRIST &s;hall be a <HI>Crown|ed King</HI> over his Church: again&s;t <HI>Papi&s;ts, Athie&s;ts, Anabapti&s;ts.</HI> Yea that <HI>Scotsmen,</HI> &s;hall darken the Seat of the <HI>Bea&s;t,</HI> the <HI>Revelation</HI> alluding to <HI>Scotizei</HI> in the <HI>Greek Language.</HI></P>
<P>Thus have we cleared the lawfulne&s;s of the <HI>Covenant,</HI> again&s;t <HI>Popery, Prelacy, Toleration,</HI> that <HI>Popi&s;h <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ugar plumb,</HI> betraying the Mediatory glory of CHRIST, into the hands of Tyra|ny, and Lawle&s;s Liberty: Yet are 44. Mini&s;ters who did not accept it, only among the cau&s;es of GODS Wrath, we fear, I <HI>Kings</HI> 20. 43. Becau&s;e thou let the man go whom I pointed to utter de&s;truction.</P>
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