CHAP. VII. That many things vowed in this Covenant are not possible to be fulfilled.
TO make good this charge, which is a further ••vidence of in∣justice in the Covenant, as involving the takers in down-right perjury, we shall propose such particulars as are either morally or absolutely impossible to be performed.
- I. That constancy of endeavour and zealous continuance which they sweare to use all the dayes of their lives in the observance of most Articles, is more than they can assure; the work of Reforma∣tion may be longer, and their other avocations greater than they imagine; and in the interim of their hopes, their endeavours may flagge, and their zeale remit. Besides the particulars of their Vow are so many, and of so different natures, as must needs di∣stract their thought•• and employments, which being fixed upon some, must divert their endeavours from the rest. And if they shall in truth all the dayes of their lives endeavour to extirpate the Government of the Church, they will never live to effect it.
- II. The mutuall preservation of the Rights and Priviledges of the Parliaments in all three Kingdomes cannot alwayes be pos∣sible. To evidence this Truth, I shall suppose what the Cove∣nanteers will easily grant: First, that the word Parliament is here secondarily, if not principally, intended for the two Houses in the respective Kingdomes, exclusively to the King. Secondly, that the Parliament of Scotland (if not that of Ireland) hath as