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This Covenant, as it deserv’d, had no better Treatment in the Complaint orRemonstrance of the University of Cambridge, viz.

' ' A Covenant with Hell, began between Munfler and Mecha, by the Help Qucrela Can-" / V of a Jesuit, the most impious and unchristian Confederacy, that theirs' ^04-" grand Master the Devil could contrive j the chief End whereof is to de-Lond. 1732." throne the Lord’s anointed, and throw down the Church, and apostolical" Government thereof; and to force not only their Fellow-fubjects to con-“ tradict their Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, but even their most“ gracious Sovereign to Perjury, in violating his sacred Oath, which he so-ct lemnly made at his Coronation. And to compleat that their most horridt( and heinous Sin, to join in Arms with a foreign Nation, to lay desolate" their own native Country, to stain this Earth with -the Blood of their" own Country-men and Fellow-Subjects, and to expose the Treasures“ of England, the Cream of these fruitful Tallies, to the empty and hungry" Maw of a rebellious Scot, and then vow never to have Peace, but what shall“ be written in the Blood of their Enemies, (his Majejly and his loyal Sub-" jests j) and lastly, most cruelly and wickedly to exhort and solicit all“ Protestants in the Christian World, to undertake the like Course with them“ by rising in rebellious Arms ; thereby exposing the Throats and Lives of >

“ all our Brethren the Protestants of France, and elsewhere, to the just Jea-" lousy of their several Princes: and yet this Covenant is made the Foun-

“ dation of the great Work of their glorious Reformation. -The Con-

" trivers of this Scheme of Iniquity have reduc’d this renown’d University al-" most to a meer Munjler, and have done more in less than three Years,cc then the Apostate Julian could effect, in all his Reign, viz. Broken the" Heart-strings of Learning, and learned Men, and thereby luxated all the" Joints of Christianity in the Kingdom."

The End of this Scotch Covenant which had occasioned such incredible Mi-series to the Nation for many Years, was this.

Die Luna, 20 Maij, Anno 1661.

" H E Lords in Parliament assembled, having consider’d of a Paper sent Bistyp Ken-" JL unto them from the House of Commons, for burning of an Instru-" ment or Writing, Call'd the solemn League and Covenant, by the Hand of“ the common Hangman; do order, that the fame Instrument or Writing,

“ call’d the solemn League and Covenant, be burned by the Hand of the com-“ mon Flangman, in the new Palace-yard at Weflminjler ; in Cheaps de ; and“ before the Old Exchange, on Wednesday the 22d of this Instant, May :

" And that the said Covenant be forthwith taken off' the Record in the House“ of Peers, and in all other Courts and Places, where the fame is recorded;

“ and that all Copies thereof be taken down out of all Churches, Chapels,

" and orher Places within England, and Wales, and the Town of Berwick

“ upon fweed, where the fame are set up.-Printed by Order of the House

" of Lords, 1661.”

But, previous to this happy Occurrence, (whilst the Bishop was wholly de-dicating himself to the Service of God, and his King) the Yoke of Tyrannybegan to sit loose ; and the new Models of the upstart Politicians to faint andfall asunder; and all those happy Things were accomplifh’d, which he hadfram’d and fashion’d in his Thoughts ; which he alone had Prudence to foresee,and Courage to hope for. Whilst impudent and wicked Men highly consciousof their own desperate Exploits, reflect at last, upon what they had for-merly committed, and seem to be asham’d of their Share in Villainy, the

I reverend