A phenix, or, The Solemn League and Covenant whereunto is annexed : 1. The form and manner of His Majesties coronation in Scotland, with a sermon then preached on that occasion, by Robert Douglas of Edenburgh, II. A declaration of the Kings Majesty to all his loving subjects of the Kingdoms of Scotland, &c. in the yeare 1650, III. The great danger of covenant-breaking, &c., being the substance of a sermon preached by Edm. Calamy, the 14 of Jan., 1645, before the then Lord Mayor of the city of London, Sir Tho. Adams : together with the shieriffs [sic], aldermen, and Common-Councell of the said city : being the day of their taking the Solemn League and Covenant at Michael Basenshaw, London.

A solemn League and Covenant: For Reforma∣tion and defence of Re∣ligion: the Honour and Happines of the King, and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.

WE the Noblemen, Barons, Knights, Gentlemen, Citi∣zens, Burgesses, Ministers of the Gospel, and Commons of all sorts in the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, by the providence of God living under one King and being of one Refor∣med Religion, having before our Eyes the glory of God, and the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, the Honour and Happiness of the Kings Majesty, and his Posterity, and the true Publick Liberty, Safety & peace of the Kingdoms,

wherein every ones private condi∣tion is included; & calling to mind the treacherous and bloody Plots, Conspiracies, Attempts, & Practi∣ces of the Enemies of God, against the true Religion, and Professors thereof in all places, especially in these three Kingdoms, ever since the Reformation of Religion, and how much their Rage, Power, and Presumption are of late, and at this time increased and exerci∣sed; whereof the deplorable estate of the Church and Kingdom of Ireland, the distressed estate of the Church and Kingdom of Eng∣land, and the dangerous estate of the Church & Kingdom of Scot∣land, are present and publick Testimonies. We have now at last (after other means of Supplicati∣on, Remonstrance, Protestations, and Sufferings,) for the preser∣vation of our Selves and our Re∣ligion from utter ruine and de∣struction,

according to the com∣mendable practice of these King∣doms in former times, and the example of Gods people in other Nations, after mature deli∣beration, resolved and deter∣mined to enter into a Mutuall and Solemn League and Cove∣nant, wherein we all subscribe, and each one of us for himself, with our hands lifted up to the most high God, do swear:

1. THat we shall sincerely, really, and constantly, through the grace of God, endeavour in our se∣verall places and callings, the pre∣servation of the reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland, in Do∣ctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Go∣vernment, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best Reformed Churches: And shall en∣deavour to bring the Churches of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest conjunction and unifor∣mity in religion, confession of faith,

form of Church-government, Di∣rectory for worship and catechi∣sing: That we and our posterity after us may as brethren live in faith and love, and the Lord may delight to dwell in the midst of us.

2. That we shall in like manner without respect of persons, endeavor the extirpation of popery, prelacy, (that is, Church-government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chan∣cellors, and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other Ecclesiasticall Offi∣cers depending on that Hierarchy) superstition, heresie, schism, pro∣phanness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound Do∣ctrine, and the power of godliness; lest we partake in other mens sins, and therein be in danger to receive of their plagues, and that the Lord may be one, and his Name one in the three Kingdoms.

3. We shall with the same since∣rity, reality and constancy, in our severall vocations, endeavour with our estates and lives, mutually to preserve the rights and priviledges

of the parliaments, and the Liber∣ties of the kingdomes, and to pre∣serve and defend the Kings Ma∣jesties Person and Authority, in the Preservation and Defence of the true Religion, and Liberties of the Kingdomes, that the World may bear witnesse with our Con∣sciences of our Loyalty, and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His Majesties just Pow∣er and Greatnesse.

4. We shall also with all Faith∣fulnesse endeavour the discovery of all such as have been, or shall be Incendiaries, Malignants, or evil Instruments, by hindering the Re∣formation of Religion, dividing the King from His People, or one of the three Kingdomes from ano∣ther, or making any faction or par∣ties among the People, contrary to this League and Covenant, that they may be brought to publick Tryal, and receive condign Punish∣ment, as the degree of their Offen∣ces shall require or deserve, or the Supream Judicatories of both Kingdomes respectively, or others

having power from them for that effect shall judge convenient.

5. And whereas the Happinesse of a blessed Peace between these Kingdomes, denied in former times to our Progenitors, is by the good Providence of God granted unto us, and hath been lately concluded, and setled by both the Parliaments, we shall each one of us, according to our place and interest, endeavour that they may remain conjoyned in a firm Peace and Union to all Posterity, and that Justice may be done upon the wilfull opposers thereof, in manner expressed in the precedent Articles.

6. We shall also according to our places and callings in this common cause of Religion, Liberty, and Peace of the Kingdomes, assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant, in the maintaining and pursuing thereof, and shall not suffer our selves di∣rectly or indirectly by whatsoever combination, perswasion, or ter∣rour, to be divided and withdrawn from this blessed Union and Con∣junction,

whether to make defe∣ction to the contrary part, or to give our selves to a detestable in∣differency or neutrality in this cause, which so much concerneth the glory of God, the good of the Kingdomes, and the honour of the King; but shall all the dayes of our lives, zealously, and constantly continue therein, against all opposi∣tion, and promote the same accor∣ding to our power, against all lets and impediments whatsoever; and what we are not able our selves to suppresse or overcome, we shall re∣veal and make known, that it may be timely prevented or removed; All which we shall do as in the sight of God.

And because these Kingdomes are guilty of many sins and provocations against God, and his Son Jesus Christ, as is too manifest by our pre∣sent distresses and dangers, the fruits thereof: We professe and declare before God and the world our un∣fained desire to be humbled for our own sins, and for the sins of these

Kingdomes, especially that we have not as we ought, valued the inestima∣ble benefit of the Gospel, that we have not laboured for the purity and power thereof, and that we have not endeavoured to receive Christ in our hearts, nor to walk worthy of him in our lives, which are the causes of our sins and transgressions so much a∣bounding amongst us; and our true and unfained purpose, desire, and endeavour for our selves, and all o∣thers under our power and charge, both in publick and in private, in all duties we owe to God and Man to amend our lives, and each one to go before another in the example of a real Reformation, that the Lord may turn away his wrath and heavy in∣dignation, and establish these Church∣es and Kingdomes in truth and peace. And this Covenant we make in the presence of Almighty God the Searcher of all hearts, with a true intention to perform the same, as we shall answer at the great Day, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed: Most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his Ho∣ly

Spirit for this end, and to blesse our desires and proceedings with such successe, as may be deliverance and safety to his people, and encourage∣ment to other Christian Churches, groaning under, or in danger of the yoak of Antichristian tyranny: to joyn in the same or like Association and Covonant, to the glory of God, the enlargement of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ, and the peace and tran∣quility of Christian Kingdomes and Common-wealths.

• Wil. Lenthal, Speaker
• Beuchamp St. John
• Gilbert Gerrard
• Walter Earle
• James Cambel
• Thomas Cheeke.
• Robert Nicholas
• Benjamin Rudyard
• John Gurdon
• Robert Harley
• Francis Knollis
• Edward Master
• John White
• Anthony Sapley
• Dennis Bond
• Lawrence Whitaker
• Michael Noble
• ••ere. Hoby
• Richard Barwis
• Edward Baynton
• William Cawley
• John Moyle
• John Pyne
• George Searle
• Henry Vane senior
• Nevil Pool
• John Young
• Henry Herbert
• Thomas Sandys
• William Iesson
• Philip L. Herbert
• Thomas Bartington
• Martin Lumley
• John Trevor
• Francis Godolphin
• Thomas Arundell

• Edward Stephens
• Gilbert Piekering
• John Greve
• Oliver Cromwell
• Henry Vane junior
• William Cage
• Richard Erisey
• Philip L. Lisle
• Will. Heveningham
• Isaac Pennington
• Richard Cresheld
• Thomas Pelham
• Thomas Parker
• John Leigh
• John Harris
• Augustin Skinner
• John Venn
• William Strickland
• John Franklin
• Samuel Brown
• Robert Scawen
• Roger Hill
• John Button
• John Meyrick
• Ambrose Brown
• Richard Winn
• Edward Owner
• Charles Pym
• Charles L. Cranborn
• Ben. Weston
• Dudley North
• John Nut
• John Corbet
• Roger Burgoyne
• Peter Temple
• Benjamin Valentine
• Thomas Walsingham
• Oliver Luke
• William Alenson
• Humphrey Salwey
• Richard Moor
• William Ashurst
• Thomas Moor
• Thomas Fountain
• William Ellys
• Henry Shelley
• Rich. Shuttleworth
• Henry Ludlow
• George Gallop
• Robert Wallop
• Arthur Hesilrige
• Oliver Saint-John
• Thomas Grantham
• Francis Barnham
• Will. L. Fitz Williams
• Edmund Dunch
• Henry Mildmay
• Hugh Rogers
• Thomas Hatcher
• John Wray
• Simonds D'Ewes
• Anthony Bedingfield
• John Ashe
• William L. Munson
• Martin Lister
• Robert Goodwin
• Edward Thomas
• Henry Lucas
• Miles Corbet
• Philip Smith
• Cornelius Holland
• William Spurflowe

• John Lowry
• Peter Wentworth
• Henry Chomley
• Philip Stapleton
• William Pierrepoint
• Roger North
• Alexander Popham
• Thomas Hodges
• John Maynard
• Samuel Vassal
• Anthony Irby
• John Clotworthy
• John Br••••••••lme
• Richard Jervoyse
• John Blackiston
• Walter Long
• John Rolle
• Robert Jennor
• John Waddon
• William Masham
• John Lisle
• Edmund Fowel
• Edward Ashe
• Thomas Pury
• Richard Whitehead
• Richard J••nyns
• Humphrey Tufton
• Thomas Da••res
• Thomas Earl
• John Downes
• John Goodwyn
• Francis Drake
• William Waller
• Samuel Luke
• Francis Buller
• Richard Harman
• George Buller
• Arthur Onslowe
• Richard Wynwood
• Robert Pye
• H. L. Gray of Ruthin
• Richard Knightley
• John Pym
• Christoph. Yelverton
• Anthony Nicoll
• Peter Wroth
• Robert Reynolds
• Nat. Barnardiston
• Henry Heyman
• William Purefoy
• Valentine Walton
• Michael Oldesworth
• William Wheeler
• Hall Ravenscroft
• T. L. Gray of Groby
• Thomas Middleton
• Edw. Hungerford
• Christopher Wrey
• Richard Lee
• Herbert Morley
• Thomas Lane
• Robert Cecil
• William Bell
• Thomas Some
• Herbot. Grimstone
• Symon Snowe
• John Nash
• Herbot. Grimstone
• Ralph Asheton
• Edward Ayshcoghe
• John Wylde
• John Trenchard

• Thomas Jervoyse
• Richard Browne
• William Plaiters
• Nathaniel Stephens
• Richard Rose
• Francis Rous
• Gilbert Millington
• Walter Young
• John Brown
• John Hippisley
• Edward Poole
• Henry Pelham
• William Hay
• John Driden
• Nathaniel Fyennes;
• William Lewis
• Giles Grene
• William Lytton
• John Harvey.
• Edward Dowce
• William Strode
• Edmond Prideaux
• Thomas Hoyle
• Edward Exton
• Francis Popham
• Zouch Tate
• John Curson
• Alexander Bence
• Squire Bence
• John Selden
• John Glyn
• Richard Onslow
• John Coke
• Tho. L. Wenman
• Bulstrode Whitlock
• George Montague
• Edward Partheriche
• Henry Campion
• VVilliam VVhittaker
• Denzel Holles
• Edward VVingate
• James Fennys
• Poynings Moore
• Edward Bisse, junior.
• VVilliam Jephson
• Edward Montague
• Norton Knatchboll
• Thomas Eden
• Edward Baynton
• Jo. Evelin
• Jo. Potts
• Sam. Rolls
• Ralph Ashton
• VVilliam Drake
• Pereg. Pelham
• VVilliam Brereton
• Thomas VViddrington
• Natha. Hallows
• Joh. Bamfield
• Symond Thelwall.
• Hen. VVorsley
• Phil. Parker
• Edw. Boys
• John Alford.