A SOLEMN League and Covenant, FOR Reformation, and Defence of Religion, the Honour and Happiness of the KING, and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.  
Also, Two special ORDERS: VIZ. 

I. Concerning the taking of the League and Covenant in all Churches and Chapels in London and Westminster, upon the next Lordsday in the afternoon.  
II. Concerning divers Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, Colonels, Officers, Soldiers, and others, that are desirous to meet this present Friday in the forenoon at Margarets-Westminster, and to take the said League and Covenant.    Jer. 50.5. 
Come, let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten.  Prov. 25.5. 
Take away the wicked from before the King, and his Throne shall be established in righteousness.  2 Chron. 15.15. 
And all judah rejoiced at the Oath, for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire, and he was found of them; and the Lord gave them rest round about.  

DIe Sabbathi,30. Sept. 1643.  
It is this day Ordered by the Commons in Parl. That this Covenant and Orders be forthwith Printed & published:  
H. Elsing, Cl. Parl. D. Com.   
London, Printed for Edw. Husbands, Octob. 2. 1643.   

Die Lunae 25. Septemb. 1643.  
IT is this day Ordered by the Commons now assembled in Parliament, that the Ministers in all the Parish-Churches and Chappells of London, Westminster, Suburbs and Liberties, and in all the Parishes within the Bills of Mortality, do read the solemn League and Covenant on Wednesday next, being the Day of Public Humiliation; And do explain it, and urge the ground and necessity of it, and exhort the People to the cheerful taking of it, and that the several Inhabitants and Parishioners of the several and respective Parishes aforesaid, and Students of the Inns of Court, do take the said League and Covenant on the Lordsday next in the afternoon: And that notice hereof be given to my Lord Mayor, and his Lordship desired to give timely notice hereof to the places aforesaid: The Ministers are likewise to give notice, that the Commissioners of Scotland now here, do take it here.  
H: Elsing, Cler: Parl: D: Com.   

Die Sabbathi, 30 Septem. 1643.  
WHereas divers Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, and divers Colonels, Officers and Soldiers, and others now residing in the Cities of London and Westminster, and within the Line of Communication, are desirous to meet at Saint Margaret's Church at Westminster on Friday next, to take the solemn League and Covenant for Reformation, and Defence of Religion, the Honour and Happiness of the King, and the Peace and Safety of the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland. And whereas divers of the Scotish-Nation are desirous likewise to meet at the same time and place; And divers Ministers who have no charge within the said limits, to take the said Covenant;  
It is this day Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, That Mr. Carrill of Lincolns-Inne be desired to Preach on Friday next in the forenoon, to those that shall so meet, for the taking of the said Covenant; And a Parchment-Roll, with the said Covenant written therein, shall be prepared for every one that takes the said Covenant, to subscribe his Name▪ And Colonel Long and Master John Brown, Members of the said House, are to see the Names subscribed accordingly: And this Order is appointed to be printed and published forthwith.  
H: Elsing, Cler. Parl. D. Com.   

A Solemn League and Covenant, for Reformation, and defence of RELIGION, the Honour and Happiness of the KING, and the Peace and safety of the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.  
WE Noblemen, Barons, Knights, Gentlemen, Citizens, 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 Reformed Religion, having before our eyes the glory of God, and the advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the honour and happiness of the King's Majesty and His Posterity, and the true public Liberty, Safety, and Peace of the Kingdoms, wherein every ones private condition is included, and calling to mind the treacherous and bloody Plots, Conspiracies, Attempts, and Practices of the Enemies of God, against the true Religion, and professors thereof in all places, especially in these three Kingdoms ever since the Reformatian of Religion, and how much their rage, power and presumption, are of late, and at this time increased and exercised; whereof the deplorable state of the Church and Kingdom of Ireland, the distressed estate of the Church and Kingdom of England; and the dangerous estate of the Church and Kingdom of Scotland, are present and public Testimonies; We have now at last, (after other means of Supplication, Remonstrance, Protestations, and Sufferings) for the preservation of ourselves and our Religion, from utter Ruin and Destruction, according to the commendable practice of these Kingdoms in former times, and the Example of God's people in other Nations; after mature deliberation, resolved and determined to enter into a mutual and solemn League and Covenant, wherein we all subscribe, and each one of us for himself, with our hands lifted up to the most high God, do swear:  
I. THat we shall sincerely, really and constantly, through the Grace of God, endeavour in our several places and callings, the preservation of the Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland, in Doctrine, Worship, Discipline & Government, against our common Enemies the reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland, in Doctrine, Worship, Discipline and Government, according to the Word of God, and the Example of the best Reformed Churches, And shall endeavour to bring the Churches of God in the three Kingdoms, to the nearest conjunction and Uniformity in Religion, Confession of Faith, Form of Church-government, Directory for Worship and Catechising; 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.  
II. That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the Extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, (that is, Church-government, by Arch-Bishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacon's, and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on that Hierarchy) Superstition, Heresy, Schism, Profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine, and the power of Godliness; lest we partake in other men's sins, and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues, and that the Lord may be one, and his Name one in the three Kingdoms.  
III. We shall with the same sincerity, reality and constancy, in our several Vocations, endeavour with our estates and lives, mutually to preserve the Rights and Privileges of the Parliaments, and the Liberties of the Kingdoms, and to preserve and defend the King's Majesty's person and authority, in the preservation and defence of the true Religion, and Liberties of the Kingdoms, that the world may bear witness with our consciences of our Loyalty, and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish His Majesty's just power and greatness.  
iv We shall also with all faithfulness endeavour the discovery of all such as have been, or shall be Incendiaries, Malignants, or evil Instruments, by hindering the Reformation of Religion, dividing the King from his people, or one of the Kingdoms from another, or making any Faction or parties amongst the people, contrary to this League & Covenant, that they may be brought to public trial, and receive condign punishment, as the degree of their offences shall require or deserve, or the supreme Judicatories of both Kingdoms respectively, or others having power from them for that effect, shall judge convenient.  
V And whereas the happiness of a blessed Peace between these Kingdoms, denied in former times to our Progenitors, is by the good Providence of GOD granted unto us, and hath been lately concluded, and settled by both Parliaments, we shall each one of us, according to our place and interest, endeavour that they may remain conjoined in a firm Peace and Union to all Posterity; And that Justice may be done upon the wilful Opposers thereof, in manner expressed in the precedent Article.  
VI We shall also according to our places & callings in this common cause of Religion, Liberty, and Peace of the Kingdoms, assist and defend all those that enter into this League and Covenant, in the maintaining & pursuing thereof, and shall not suffer ourselves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination, persuasion or terror, to be divided & withdrawn from this blessed Union & conjunction, whether to make defection to the contrary part, or to give ourselves to a detestable indifferency or neutrality in this cause which so much concerneth the glory of God, the good of the Kingdoms, and honour of the King; but shall all the days of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein, against all opposition, and promote the same according to our power, against all Lets and Impediments whatsoever; and what we are not able ourselves to suppress or overcome, we shall reveal 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 Kingdoms are guilty of many sins & provocations against God, & his Son Jesus Christ as is too manifest by, our present distresses and dangers, the fruits thereof; We profess and declare before God and the world, our unfeigned desire to be humbled for our own sins, & for the sins of these Kingdoms, especially, that we have not as we ought, valued the inestimable 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 other sins and Transgressions, so much abounding amongst us; And our true and unfeigned purpose, desire, and endeavour for ourselves, and all others under our power and charge, both in public and in private, in all duties we own 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 indignation, and establish these Churches and Kingdoms 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 that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be di●●los●●, Most humbly beseeching the Lord to strengthen us by his Holy Spirit for this end, and to bless our desires and proceed with such success, as may be deliverance and safety to his people, & encouragement to other christian Churches groaning under, or in danger of the yoke of Anti-christian Tyranny; to join in the same, or like Association and Covenant, to the glory of God, the enlargement of the Kingome of Jesus Christ, and the peace and Tranquillity of Christian Kingdoms and Commonwealths.  
FINIS.