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THE Parliament doth Declare, That the Recognition of the Government by the Members of this Parliament in the words following; viz.  
I do hereby freely Promise and Engage, to be True and faithful to the Lord Protector, and the commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, and shall not (according to the Tenor of the Indenture, whereby I am Returned to serve in this present Parliament) Propose, or give my Consent to alter the Government, as it is settled in one Person, and a Parliament,  
Doth not comprehend, nor shall be construed to comprehend therein the whole Government, consisting of forty two Articles; but that the same doth only include what concerns the Government of the Commonwealth by a single Person, and Successive Parliaments.   

Thursday Septemb. 14. 1654.  
ORdered by the Parliament that this Declaration be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Hen. Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament.   

London, printed by William du-Gard and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector, 1654.