THE Hearty Concurrence of divers Citizens and Inhabitants of the City of London; with the Ministers of the Province thereof, to their Testimony to the Truth of Jesus Christ, and to our solemn LEAGUE and COVENANT. As also against the errors, Heresies, and Blasphemies of these times, and the toleration of them.  
THE Inestimable value of Truth which undeniably claims God the Father to be the author, Jesus Christ the Purchaser, and the Holy Spirit of God the revealer of it, the zealous practices of the faithful witnesses of Jesus Christ in former ages opposing errors by their valiant sealing to the truth with their blood, the painful preaching pious practices, and learned writings of our late faithful Ministers now with God: As Mr. Egerton, Mr. Stock, Mr. Randal, Doctor Sibs, Dr. Preston, Dr. Taylor, Dr. Stoughton, Mr. Elton, with many others, together with our present vigilant spiritual watchmen in the Province of London, honoured in being the first which broke the Ice in their zealous contention for truth against error when it was highest, themselves (we hope) at lowest; Together with the faithful Ministers of Jesus Christ in the Counties of Warwick, Gloucester, and that heart-warming harmonious consent of the Ministers of the County of Lancaster; And, the serious consideration of the most observable acts of God's grace to this City, as well of old, as of later days; our late afflictions, dishonours, and reproaches cast upon us for our neutrality, lukewarmness, formality, the cloud of blood still hanging over our heads, the sparkles of God's wrath scattered amongst us, the fearful frowns of our justly angry God against us, manifested in several symptoms: Lastly, that we in our places might contribute something wherein we might the more firmly engage ourselves to the truth, encourage the truly godly, recover some which are misled, strengthen them who are ready to fall, fill the faces of heretics, profane persons, lukewarm politicians with shame (that so they might seek the face of God in Jesus Christ) advance Covenanted Reformation; And, which is not the least, our consciousness of Christian duty lying upon us, being as fire in our bowels, so that we can no longer forbear, lest God spew us out of his mouth, and we be a reproach to the gospel; The deep and due consideration of these and many other such like weighty incitations do most seriously put us upon this work to imitate our faithful Pastors in contending for Truth against error; for piety against profaneness, and for our solemn League and Covenant against all opposers in these few ensuing particulars.  
I. we testify to all the World, That it is the earnest desires of our souls that the humble advice of the Assembly of Divines by Authority of Parliament sitting at Westminster, concerning the Confession of Faith, abundantly satisfactory to us, for its purity, solidity, and conformity to the holy Scriptures, the two catechisms both the larger and lesser may be established among us by civil sanction, with the Church-Government.  
II. we do hereby also declare against all those unsound Opinions, errors, Heresies, and Blasphemies, already enumerated by our godly Pastors in their Testimony: As also some others since published, 
a A Testimony to an approaching glory, per Joshua Sprig, Pag. 65.  viz. That while we are weak we know not the love of the Father to us; But think that Jesus Christ doth procure the love of the Father; when as Jesus Christ doth but manifest and declare the love of the Father. 
b The life of Christ Printed 1648. p. 2.  Another, That Christ is not borne of the blood of Adam, but from Heaven. All which Tenets we look upon as contrary to the analogy of Faith, and pattern of sound words; and therefore with the Ministers that are gone before us, we do testify and declare our utter dislike of Anabaptism, Brownism, Erastianism, independency, and prelacy; so also our soul's abhorrency and vehement detestation of antiscripturism, Socinianism, Arminianism, Arianism, Antinomianism, Popery, and Antitrinitarianism, with many others.  
III. we desire to express our hearty sorrow for, and detestation of all those graceless causes, and ungodly practices of these apostatising times, as profane swearing, drunkenness, Sabbath-breaking, oppression, which are God-provoking, and Kingdome-destroying abominations, not to be named amongst Christians: All that opposition to Reformation, hypocritical pursuing of false interests under specious pretences of public good, all which are against piety towards God, Justice, righteousness and Sobriety towards men, laying us naked to Divine vengeance, and rendering us a people fitted for destruction, therefore we desire to be sensible of these provocations, and to stir up ourselves, and all the godly in this kingdom to disclaim against them, and endeavour in their and our places to reform them according to our Covenant.  
IV. Our dislike shall we say? That's too little, nay rather our detestation of that wicked design of the Sectarian profane party, who endeavour to extirpate and expel from amongst us, our learned, godly, and conscientious Ministers, declaiming against their persons by uncivil scoffs, and against their Calling as Antichristian, and by detaining not only a plentiful, but even a competent maintenance, under pretence of unlawfulness of tithes, which makes us invocate the Lord, that they may never have power to accomplish this execrable design, nor we have cause sadly to sigh, and say, our Teachers are removed into corners.  
V. we declare our hearty desires, That the Government of Jesus Christ (according to our Covenant, and the advice of the Assembly of Divines) may be established amongst us, a taste whereof in that little part of it which is set up amongst us, we look not upon as Arbitrary and tyrannical, yea to have it completed would be our Glory and crown of rejoicing; utterly disliking the opposition it meets withal: And, oh that we knew what to do for the suppressing that opposition by loose and profane persons on the one hand, and on the other by such as separate, and highly contend for that Great; Diana the Compendium of all mischiefs concentred in that one word, Toleration.  
VI. Lastly, but not least of all, as for the Covenant, our solemn League and Covenant, as we heartily rejoice that we took it, that it was commended to the kingdom by the Parliament, and taken by so many in both kingdoms with their hands lifted up to Heaven, so also we desire to be afflicted in our souls with shame and sorrow for the violation of it, either by ourselves or others, but most of all for that stupendious wickedness and matchless impiety in vilifying and contemning that Sacred Oath, even by too too many that entered into it and covenanted with us; doubtless that faithful God who keepeth Covenant with us, will avenge the quarrel of this Covenant broken by us, unless prevented by Repentance and Reformation: And as we look upon it as a duty belonging to all to take it, and therefore blame the non-taking of it by any; so we declare our utter dislike of the slighters and contemners of it, and earnestly desire the taking of it by all, be not only commended, but commanded by Authority.  
As for ourselves, it is our desire, and shall be our constant endeavours in the strength of Jesus Christ, maugre all malice and opposition whatsoever, to keep it, and to pursue all the ends contained in it, in the plain, literal, grammatical sense of it, in the which we then took it, abominating all other glosses upon it, and do with the Ministers of London, and elsewhere, declare that we believe in our consciences, no power on earth whatsoever can absolve us from the bond of that Covenant.  
In Testimony whereof, as in the presence of the Lord, in the integrity of our hearts we hereunto subscribe our names.