A True and Exact COPY OF A TREASONABLE and BLOODY-PAPER, CALLED, THE fanatics New-Covenant: Which was taken from Mr. Donald cargil at Queens-Ferry, the third day of June, Anno Dom●: 1680.  
One of their FIELD-PREACHERS, a declared Rebel and Traitor.  
TOGETHER With their Execrable DECLARATION, published at the Cross of Sanquhair, upon the Twenty two day of the said Month of June; After a Solemn Procession, and Singing of Psalms, by Cameron, the Notorious Ringleader of, and Preacher at, their Field-Conventicles, accompanied with Twenty of that Wretched Crew.  
Printed and Published by order of His Majesty's Privy Council, in obedience to His Majesty's Commands, in His Letter dated at Windsor-Castle, the 5th. day of July, 1680.  
EDINBURGH, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred MAJESTY, Anno Domini. 1680.   

A True and Exact Copy of a Treasonable Paper, called, The fanatics New-Covenant.  
WE Under-Subscribers, for ourselves, and all that join with us, and adhere to us, being put to it by God, our Consciences, and Men; Do bind our Souls with a solemn and sacred Bond, lest on the one hand weshould be carried away with the stream of the Apostasy and defection of the Church in this time, and on the other hand, lest we should (not being so engaged) vanish in Vanity, and be without a right rule in good Designs: We have judged it our duty again to covenant with God, and one another, and to publish this DECLARATION to the World of our Purposes, that Men may know our most inward-thoughts, the rules that we walk by, and the outmost ends that we have before our eyes for this intent, that these who are lovers of God, zealous of His reigning in Glory, and desirous of Reformation, and the propagation of His Kingdom, may have occasion no more to be jealous of our Intentions, and others may have no ground to load us with odious and foul Aspersions; but, that all knowing the truth of us, if they shall strive against us, and Truth with us, shall do it without excuse, and against conviction; and that these who shall join with us, may do it upon solid and undoubted-grounds, and both they and we may expect Grace from Him, Faithfully to persevere, and happily to be successful in so good Purposes.  
It is true, We are not ignorant of the great unmindfulness, failing, counteracting, and mocking that has been in our former Vows and Covenants with God, and of the great Judgements that hath, and are like to follow such impious and sinful dealing with God in such weighty Matters, (for which we both ought and desire to be humbled before Him,) which cannot but make us with great trembling of Heart enter into new ones, knowing both our own weakness and readiness to relapse, and the great hazard and danger of such relapses; Yet, the desire of recovering and preserving a remnant, and the conviction of this, as the most convenient mean, the zeal to God's glory, and Christ's reigning, (which is the highest and most acceptable duty Man can perform to God,) hoping for His Mercies, (who is witness to the integrity of our Hearts and rightness of our Intentions,) that he will instruct, direct, accept, and prosper us, we go forward, declaring, that nothing else but what we here express is our Design.  
I. We covenant and swear, that we take the only true and living God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to be our God, and betakes ourselves to the Merits and Righteousness of His Son, as the alone Righteousness that can justify us before God; and that we take His Scriptures and Word to be the Object of our Faith, and rule of our Conversation in all things; and that we shall give up ourselves to Him, to be renewed, instructed, and in all things ruled by His Spirit, according to that Word; and shall earnestly endeavour by His Grace, to render to Him that Love, Worship, and Obedience, that His Word requires, and His Goodness engages us to.  
II. That we shall to the outmost of our Power, advance the Kingdom of Christ established throughout the Land, (if at any time hereafter God shall give us this opportunity) Righteousness and the true reformed Religion, in the truth of its Doctrine, in the purity and power of its Worship and Ordinances, and in its Discipline and Government, and free the Church of God from the thraldom, tyranny, encroachment, and corruption of Prelacy on the one hand, and Erastianism on the other. And that we shall to our Power, relieve the Church and Subjects of this Kingdom, (we being called thereto, by His giving of us Power, Power being Godscall to do good,) of that Oppression that hath been exercised upon their Consciences, civil Rights and Liberties, that Men may serve Him holily, without fear, and possess their civil Rights in quietness, without disturbance.  
III. That we shall endeavour to our outmost, the extirpation of the kingdom of Darkness, and whatsoever is contrair to the kingdom of Christ, and especially Idolatry, and Popery in all the Articles of it, as we are bound in our National Covenant; and Superstition, Will-worship, and Prelacy, with its Hierarchy, as we are bound in our Solemn League and Covenant; And that we shall with the same sincerity, endeavour (God giving us assistance) the overthrow of that Power that hath established that Prelacy and Erastianism over the Church, and exercises such a lustful and arbitrary Tyranny over the Subjects, seeking again to introduce Idolatry and Superstition in these Lands, contrair to our Covenants: And in a word, that we shall endeavour the extirpation of all the works of Darkness, and the Relics of Idolatry and Superstition, (which are both much enlarged and revived in our times,) and execute righteous Judgement impartially (according to the Word of God, and degree of Wickedness) upon the Committeis of these things, but especially Blasphemy, Idolatry, Atheism, Sorcery, Perjury, Uncleanness, profanation of the Lordsday, Oppression and Malignancy, that being thus zealous for God, he may delight to dwell among us.  
IU. Seriously considering, that the hand of our Kings has been against the Throne of the Lord, and that now for a long time, the succession of our Kings, and the most part of our Rulers with him, hath been against the purity and power of Religion and Godliness, and freedom of the Church of God, and hath degenerate from the virtue and good Government of their Predecessors into Tyranny, and hath of late so manifestly rejected God, His Service and Reformation, as a Slavery, as they themselves call it in their public Papers, (especially in these last Letters to the King, and Duke of Lauderdale) disclaiming their Covenant with God, and blasphemously enacting it to be burnt by the hand of a Hangman, governed contrary to all right Laws divine and humane, exercised such tyranny and arbitrary Government, oppressed men in their Consciences and Civil Rights, used free Subjects (christian and reasonable men) with less discretion and justice then their beasts; and so not only frustrate the great end of Government, (which is, that men may live godly, holily and peaceably under them, and might be maintained in their Rights and Liberties from injury and wrong) but hath also walked contrary to it, So that it can no more be called a Government, but a lustful Rage, exercised with as little right reason, and with more cruelty then in Beasts, and they themselves can be no more called Governors, but public Grassators, and public Judgements, which all Men ought as earnestly to labour to be free of, as of Sword, Famine, or Pestilence raging amongst us; and besides, hath stopped (instead of punishing) the course of Law and Justice against Idolaters, Blasphemers, Atheists, Murderers, Incestuous and Adulterous, and other Malefactors; and instead of rewarding the Good, hath made Butcheries and Murders on the Lord's People, sold them as Slaves, Imprisoned, Forfaulted, Banished and Fined them, upon no other account, but for maintaining the Lords Right to rule Consciences, against the usurpations of Men, for fulfilling their Vows, and repelling unjust Violence, which innocent Nature allows to all; of all which, and more particulars, we can give (we speak as before God) innumerable and sure Instances: Neither can it be thought that there is hope of their returning from these Courses, having so often showed their Natures and Enmities against God and all Righteousness, and so often declared and renewed their Purposes and Promises of persevering in these Courses. And, suppose they should dissemble a Repentance of these Evils, and profess to return to better Courses, being put to Straits, or for their own Ends, (for upon no other account can we reasonably expect it;) and though it might be thought, that there might be Pardon for what is done, (which we cannot yet see to be, without the violation of the Law of God, and a great guiltiness on the Land, from which guiltiness the Land can never be free, but by executing of God's righteous Judgements upon them for omitting of so greatly deserved, and so necessarily requisite a Justice;) yet they cannot be believed, after they have violated all Ties that Humane Wisdom can devise to bind Men; and beside, there will be something of folly found, to think to bind a King that pretends to absoluteness: and our Fathers, or rather ourselves, at first judged it not warrantable to receive Him, without consenting to, and swearing of the Covenant: And if so, the renouncing and disclaiming thereof, we ought at present to judge to be a just and reasonable ground of rejecting Him upon these Grounds, being assured of God's approbation, and men's, whose Hearts are not utterly biased, and their Consciences altogether corrupted, and knowing assuredly, that the upholding of such, is to uphold Men, to bear down Christ's Kingdom, and to uphold Satins, and the depriving of Men of right Government and good Governors, to the ruining of Religion, and undoing of Humane Society. We then seeing the innumerable Sins and Snares that are in giving obedience to their Acts, on the other hand, seeing if we shall acknowledge their Authority, and refuse obedience to their sinful Commands, the endless Miseries that will follow, and siding with God (who we hope will accept and help us to a liberation from their Tyranny) against his stated and declared Enemies; do reject that King, and these associate with Him, from being our Rulers, because standing in the way of our Right, free and peaceable serving of God, propagating His Kingdom and Reformation, and overthrowing Satan's kingdom, according to our Covenant; And declares them henceforth to be no lawful Rulers, as they have declared us to be no lawful Subjects, upon a ground far less warrantable, as Men unbiased may see; and that after this, we neither owe, nor shall yield any willing obedience to them, but shall rather suffer the outmost of their Cruelties and Injustice, until God shall plead our Cause, and that upon these Accounts; because, they have altered and destroyed the Lords established Religion, overturned the fundamental and established Laws of the Kingdom, taken altogether away Christ's Church and Government, and changed the Civil Government of this Land (which was by King and free Parliaments) into Tyranny, where none are associate to be partakers of the Government, but only those who will be found by Justice to be guilty of Criminals, and all others excluded, even those who by the Laws of the Land by Birth had a right to, and a share in that Government, and that only, because not of the same guiltiness and mischievous Purposes with themselves: And also, all free elections of Commissioners for Parliaments, and Officers for Government, are made void by their making those the Qualifications of admission to these Places, which by the Word of God, and the Laws of this Land, were the cause of their exclusion before, so that none can look upon us, or judge us bound in Alledgeance to them, unless they say also we are bound in Alledgeance to Devils, they being his Vicegerents, and not Gods.  
V. We then being made free, by God and their own doings, He giving the Law, and they giving the Transgression of that Law, which is the cause that we are loosed now from all Obligations, both Divine and Civil to them, and knowing that no Society of Men that hath corruption in them, (which always is ready to beget disorders and do injuries, unless restrained and punished by Laws and Government) can be without Laws and Government, and withal desiring to be governed in the best way that is least liable to Inconveniencies and Tyranny: We do declare, that we shall set up over ourselves, and over all that God shall give us Power, Government, and Governors, according to the Word of God, and especially according to that word, Exod. 18. v. 21. Moreover, thou shalt provide out of all the People, able Men, such as fear God, men of Truth, hating G●vetousness; and that we shall no more commit the Government of ourselves, and the making of Laws for us, to any one single Person, and lineal Successor, we not being tied as the Jews were by God, to one Family, Government not being an Inheritance, but an Office, which must be squared, not to the interest and lust of a Man, but to the good of the Commonwealth, and this kind of Government by a single Person, etc. being most liable to Inconveniencies, (as sad and long experience may now teach us,) and aptest to degenerate into Tyranny. Moreover, we declare that these Men whom we shall set over us, shall be engaged to govern us principally by that Civil or Judicial Law given by God to His People of Israel, especially in matters of Life and Death, and in all other things also, so far as they teach, excepting only that Law, (viz. anent Slaves,) which does not agree with that Christian Liberty established in all Christendom, (only violated by our Tyrants, and some others of late,) and that of Divorces and Polygamy; the one being not a Law, but a Permission granted upon the account of the hardness of their Hearts, the other being a sinful custom contrair to the first institution of Marriage, crept in into the Church: We know that Men of Malignant and perverse Spirits, that has not a higher God than a wicked King, which suits only with their lustful licentiousness, and it may be others with them that seemed to be of better Principles, will raise an ignorant clamour upon this, that it is a Fifth-Monarchy, and we Fifth-Monarchy-men, and will labour to amuse the People with strange terms, and put odious names on good things to make them hateful, as their way is; but if this be their Fifth-Monarchy, we both are, and aught to be such, and that according to His Word.  
VI It being the work of the Ministers of the Gospel, to preach, propagate, and defend the Kingdom of God, and to preserve the Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, Government, Liberties and Privileges of the same, from all corruptions and encroachments of Rulers, and all others. And seeing, that the Ministers of the Church of Scotland, (at least the greatest part of them before) not only were defective in preaching and testifying against the Acts of these Rulers, for overthrowing Religion and Reformation, abjuring our Covenant made with God, establishing a Government in the Church, which that King calls His own Government, (and so not Gods,) contrair to our Covenant; Against enacting of that blaspemous (so Calvin calls that Supremacy of Henry the Eight, upon which this Prerogative is founded, and from which it is derived, and is no less, if not more injurious to Christ, and enslaving to His Church,) and sacrilegious Prerogative given to a King over the Church of God, and against the other Acts and Encroachments of His Church, and hindered others also who were willing, and would have testified against them, and censured some that did it, (for which, together with the other Causes in their trust and administration, we may say, God hath left them to do worse things;) but also hath voted in that Meeting, (which they are pleased to call an Assembly of Ministers, but how justly, let Men judge,) an acceptation of that Liberty, founded upon, and given by virtue of that blasphemously arrogated and usurped Power; and hath appeared before their Courts to accept of that Liberty, and to be enacted and authorized there as Ministers, and so hath willingly (for this is an elicit act of the Will, and not an act of Force and Constraint) translated the Power of sending out, ordering, censuring, (for as they accept of their Liberty from them, so they submit to their Censures and Restaints, at least all of them who were yet tried with it, and others of them appeared and acknowledged before their Courts, that they would not have done these things that they were charged with, if they had thought it would have offended them,) Ministers departing from the Court of Christ, and subjection to the Ministry, to the Courts of Men, and subjection to the Magistrate, (which had been impious and injurious to Christ and His Church, though they had been righteous and lawful Rulers,) and by their changing of Courts, (according to Common Law) hath changed their Masters, and of the Ministers of Christ are become the Ministers of Men, and bound to answer to them as oft as they will; and as by the acceptation of this Liberty in such manner, they have translated the Power, so they have given up and utterly quit the Government, and a succession of a Presbyterian Ministry; for as these were not granted them of their Masters, so they exercise their Ministry without them, and so by this, as the Ecclesiastic Government is swallowed up in the Civil, (if the rest had followed them) the Ministry should have also been extinct with themselves, and the whole Work of Reformation had been buried in Oblivion, not so much as the remembrance of it kept up: These, together with the other of their Commissions in Preaching, the lawfulness of paying that Tribute declared to be imposed for the bearing down of the true Worship of God, (which they falsely termed Seditions Conventicles,) and their advising these poor Prisoners to subscribe the Bond, and consequently could not but so advise all others, if put to it, (for the hazard that Men were in, will not make a real change of the morality of that Action,) and beside, the rest may be put to it upon the same hazard, and so if the one should advise, (which consequently they must do,) and the other should subscribe, this would altogether close that door which the Lord hath made use of in all the Churches of Europe, for casting off the Yoke of the Whore, and restoring the truth and purity of Religion and Reformation, and freedom of the Churches, and should have stopped all ingress for Men, when once brought under Tyranny, to recover their Liberty again. These Ministers then, not being followers of Christ, who before Pontius Pilate, gave a good Confession, which was, that he was a King, and no King, if he have not power to order his House and Subjects, and they not following him, nor his Ministers, if not asserting and maintaining of this his kingly Power, against all Incroachers and Usurpers of it; and besides, we being commanded, If any Brother walk disorderly, from such to withdraw; and although in the capacity we now are in, we neither have, nor assumes to ourselves Authority to give out definite and authoritative sentences of Deposition and Supension against these Ministers; yet we declare, which is proper for us to do, that we neither can, nor will hear Preaching, nor receive Sacraments from these Ministers that hath accepted of, and voted for that Liberty; and declares all who have encouraged and strengthened their Hands, by hearing and pleading for them, all those who have trafficked for an union with them, without their renouncing and repenting of these things, all those that do not testify faithfully against them, and after do not deport themselves suitably to their testimonies, and all who join not in public with their Brethren, who are testifying against them; we declare, that we shall not hear them Preach, nor receive Sacraments from them, at least, till they stand in Judgement before these Ministers, and be judged by them who have followed the Lord, and kept themselves free of these Defections: And as our Hearts hath cleaved to these Ministers, while they were on the Lord's side, and subjected ourselves to them, so we shall still cleave to those that abide following Him, and shall be subject to them in the Lord.  
VII. Then we do declare and acknowledge, that a Gospel-Ministry, is a standing Ordinance of God, appointed by Christ, to continue in the Church, until the end of the World; and that none of us shall take upon him the preaching of the Word, or administering the Sacraments, unless called, and ordained thereto, by the Ministers of the Gospel: And as we declare that we are for a standing Gospel-Ministry, rightly chosen, and rightly ordained, so we declare, that we shall go about this Work in time to come, with more Fasting and Praying, and more careful Inspection into the conversation and holiness of these Men that shall be chosen and ordained, the want of which formerly, hath been a great sin, both in Ministers and People, which hath not been the least cause of this Defection.   

THE DECLARATION and TESTIMONY OF THE True-Presbyterian, Antiprelatick, AND ANTI-ERASTIAN, PERSECUTED-PARTY IN SCOTLAND.  
IT is not amongst the smallest of the Lords Mercies to this poor Land, that there hath aways been some who hath given a Testimony of every course of Defection which we were guilty of, which is a token for Good, that he does not as yet intent to cast us off altogether, but that He will leave a remnant, in whom he will be glorious, if they (through His Grace) keep themselves clean still, and walk in His Way and Method, as it hath been walked in, and owned by Him in our Predecessors (of truly worthy Memory) their time, in their carrying out of our noble Work of Reformation, in the several steps thereof, from Popery and Prelacy, and likewise from Erastian-Supremacy, so much usurped by him, who it is true (so far as we know) is descended from the Race of our Kings; yet he hath so far deborded from what be aught to have been, by his Perjury and Usurpation in Church-matters, and Tyranny in matters Civil, as is known by the whole Land, that we have just reason to believe, that one of the Lords great Contraversies against us is, that we have not disowned him, and the Men of his Practices, whether inferior Magistrates, or any others, as Enemies to our Lord and His Crown, and the true Protestant and Presbyterian-Interest in their hands, our Lords espoused Bride and Church. Therefore, although we be for Government, and Governors, such as the Word of God, and our Covenants allows, yet we for ourselves, and all that will adhere to us, as the Representatives of the true Presbyterian-Church, and covenanted Nation of Scotland, considering the great hazard of lying under such a sin, do by these presents, disown Charles Stuart, who hath been reigning, or rather (we may say) tyrannising on the Throne of Scotland, or Government thereof, (forfaulted several years since by his Perjury and breach of Covenant with God and His Church,) and usurpation of his Crown and Royal Prerogatives therein, and many other breaches in matters Ecclesiastic, and by his Tyranny and breach of the very Leges Regnandi in matters Civil; for which Reasons, we declare, that several years since he should have been denuded of being King, Ruler, or Magistrate, or having any Power to act, or to be obeyed as such: As also, 〈…〉 of Christ, Captain of Salvation, we declare War against such a Tyrant and Usurper, and all the Men of his Practices, as Enemies to our Lord Jesus Christ, His Cause and Covenants, and against all such as have strengthened him, sided with him, or any ways acknowledged him in his Usurpation and Tyranny, Civil and Ecclesiastic, yea, and against all such as shall strengthen, side with, or any ways acknowledge any other in the like Usurpation and Tyranny, far more against such as would be trey or deliver up our free reformed Mother Church, into the Bondage of Antichrist, the Pope of Rome.  
By this we Homologat the Testimony given at Rutherglen, the twenty ninth of May, 1679. and all the faithful Testimonies of these that have gone before us, as of these also that have suffered of late; and we do disclaim that Declaration published at Hamiltoun, June 1679. chiefly, because it takes in the Kings, Interest, which we are several years since loosed from, because of the foresaid Reasons, and others, which may after this (if the Lord will) be published. As also, we disown, and by this resente the reception of the Duke of York, a professed Papist, as repugeant to our Principles and Vows to the most High God, and as that which is the great (though alace too just) reproach of our Church and Nation: We also, by this, protest against his succeeding to the Crown, and whatever hath been done, or any are essaying to do in this Land (given to the Lord) in prejudice to our Work of Reformation.  
And to conclude, We hope none will blame us for, or offend at, our rewarding these that are against us, as they have done to us, as the Lord gives the opportunity. This is not to exclude any that hath declined, if they be willing to give satisfaction to the degree of their offence.  
Given at Sanqhuair, the 22. of June, 1680. These are the True and Exact Copies of the fanatics New-Covenant, and Declaration; Collationed with the Originals, which are kept amongst the Records of His Majesty's Privy-Council; and attested by AL. GIBSON, Cl. Sti. Concilij. And WILL. PATERSON, Cl. Sti. Concilij.  
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