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.
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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.
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Douglas, Robert, 1594-1674.
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Edinburgh :: [s.n.], Printed in the year of covenant-breaking,
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Charles -- II, -- King of England, 1630-1685 -- Coronation.
Solemn League and Covenant (1643)
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A36441.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2025.
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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,
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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,
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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,
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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