CHAP. ULT.
The Warners exceptions against the covenant are full of con∣sidence but exceeding frivolous.
THough in the former Chapters the Warner has shewed out more venome and gall then the bagge of any one mans stomack could have been supposed capable of, yet as if he were but beginning to vomite, in this last Chapter of the covenant a new flood of blacker poyson rusheth out of his pen. His undertaking is great, to demonstrat cleerly that the covenant is meerly void wicked and impious. His first clear demonstration is, that it was devised by strangers, im∣posed by subjects, who wanted requisite power, and was extorted by just feare of unjust suffering, so that many that took it with their lips, never consented with their hearts. Ans. This cleer demonstration is but a poor and evill argu∣ment: the Major, if it were put in forme, would hardly be granted, but I stand on the minor as weake and false for the covenant was not devised by strangers, the Commissioners * 1.1 of the Parliament of England together with the Commissio∣ners of the Parlia ment and generall assembly of Scotland