A review of the Covenant, wherein the originall, grounds, means, matter, and ends of it are examined: and out of the principles of the remonstrances, declarations, votes, orders, and ordinances of the prime covenanteers, or the firmer grounds of Scripture, law, and reason, disproved.

Title

A review of the Covenant, wherein the originall, grounds, means, matter, and ends of it are examined: and out of the principles of the remonstrances, declarations, votes, orders, and ordinances of the prime covenanteers, or the firmer grounds of Scripture, law, and reason, disproved.

Author

Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658.

Publication

[Oxford :: L. Lichfield],

Printed in the yeare, 1644 [i.e. 1645]

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Subject terms

Solemn League and Covenant (1643). -- Early works to 1800.

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"A review of the Covenant, wherein the originall, grounds, means, matter, and ends of it are examined: and out of the principles of the remonstrances, declarations, votes, orders, and ordinances of the prime covenanteers, or the firmer grounds of Scripture, law, and reason, disproved." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A67901.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• The Contents of the Chapters in this ensuing Discourse.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII.
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X.
  • CHAP. XI.
  • CHAP. XII.
  • CHAP. XIII.
• Errata,
• A Review of the Covenant.
  • CHAP. I. By what meanes the Covenanteers were reduced to the neces∣sity of entering into this Combination, confessed to be their last Refuge.
  • CHAP. II. The Grounds of the Covenant, and false Assertions laid downe in the Preface, disproved.
  • CHAP. III. The unlawfulnesse of this Covenant in respect of the Cause Efficient; as made by Subjects against the will of their Su∣periour, in such things as necessarily require his consent.
  • CHAP. IV. The matter of the Covenant examined, and proved first to be against Truth.
  • CHAP. V. That this Covenant, by reason of the many ambiguityes in it, especially this, Who shall be the authentique Interpre∣ter of it, cannot be sworne in judgement.
  • CHAP. VI. That the performance of sundry Clauses in this Covenant, cannot be without grand inconvenience, or injustice.
  • CHAP. VII. That many things vowed in this Covenant are not possible to be fulfilled.
  • CHAP. VIII. That the taking this Covenant, and other avowed Actions of the Covenanteers, are in fact, contradictory to the for∣mall words of their Oath.
  • CHAP. IX. That many particulars vowed and intended by the Cove∣nant, are simply and absolutely unlawfull.
  • CHAP. X. That the Covenant is repugnant to those generall ends for which it is pretended to be taken.
  • CHAP. XI. That the particular Ends of the severall Articles are like∣wise inconsistent with the matter of them.
  • CHAP. XII. The true End of framing and enjoyning this Covenant, the bringing in of the Scots, absolutely unlawfull.
  • CHAP. XIII. From these Premises the Covenant is concluded unlawfull, in respect of the Forme.