The Return of the Sword, Title page – To the reader
THE Return of the Sword OR A DIVINE PROGNOSTICK Delivered in a SERMON at Newcaſtle: Manifeſting that breach of Covenant is a Prognoſtick of the return of the SWORD.
By ROBERT JENISON. Dr. of D.
LEVIT. 26.25.
I will bring a Sword upon you, that ſhal avenge the Quarrel of my Covenant.
EZEK. 17.18, 19.
Seeing he hath despiſed the Oath by breaking the Covenant (when lo he had given his hand) he ſhal not eſcape. As I live, ſaith the Lord, ſurely mine Oath that he hath deſpiſed, and my Covenant that he hath broken, even it wil I recompence on his own head.
LONDON, Printed by John Macock, for LUKE FAVVNE, at the ſign of the Parrot in Pauls Church-yard. MDCXLVIII.
To the indifferent Reader.
THeſe Sermon notes, lying by me, having been delivered on the day of a ſolemn *Thurſday April 30. 1646Faſt, kept, as by the Kingdom of SCOTLAND and by their Garriſon here, ſo by us, who ſympathizing with them, conceived their dangers and fears to be ours, and who (for that one time) made our day of ſolemn humiliation theirs, which yet we kept (for the place) alone by our ſelves; and finding that in all likelihood, they may be as uſefull at this time, as then, and may tend to our warning, by way of prevention; howſoever, to Gods glory and the juſtifying and magnifying of his ways, whether of juſtice or of merciemercy: I conceived it would conduce to thoſe ends, if, tranſcribing, and, here and there, enlarging the ſame, I made them, in this juncture of time, more publick; as being a word or two ſpoken in ſeaſon: and that the rather becauſe I have for my part been for divers years ſo unuſefull to the Publick and a ſtranger to mine own Nation, though my willingneſs and endeavours were not wanting to have aſſiſted in more publike imployment with others; unto which being aſſigned, upon notice of a time then ſet for the ſitting of the Aſſembly of Divines, I undertook a long and tedious as alſo hazardous *From Dantzigk to London in July, 1642.Voyage: but arriving and finding that then the Kings conſent to their aſſembling was expected and relied upon, and it very unlikely to be got; upon leave obtained, I haſtned to return unto my poor flock at Dantzigk, and was content with ſome expence of time and money to undergo the ſame hazards: which makes me now, as occaſion offers, to be as ſerviceable to the publicke as I may, according to my poor mite. My ayme is, as the good and warning of ſuch as God intends good unto, ſo above all Gods Glory, in the acknowledgment of which I hope they will joyn with me, whether it be in a way of Juſtice or Mercy. Thine in the Lord
R. J. Newcaſtle, March 23. 1647/8.