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 Jreland.  
Together with a Preamble, made by a worthy Member of the House of COMMONS, to invite all good Christians to the constant keeping of it.  COme, let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual Covenant that shall not be forgotten, JER. 50. 5. Take away the wicked from before the King, and his Throne shallbe established in righteousness, PROV. 25. 5. 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, 2 CHRON. 15. 15. 

The excellent Usefulnesse of this COVENANT.  
Union with God, Conformity to God, and Unity of the three Kingdoms, are things most desirable: In the first we are happy: In the second holy: In the third is strength, peace, and safety. These are the kindly fruits of this Covenant, and a Covenant that brings forth these, how gladly should it be embraced, and how willingly received? They are lovely Bands that binds us to be happy, holy, and safe. The heart of man is back-sliding, and a Covenant is like a hedge or wall to stop us from going back: it being a good and ready answer to a tempter or tentation: How shall I do this, and break my Covenant? Surely we have been too lose toward God, having almost lost a Religion, too lose in our lives, and too disunited among ourselves: and well it may be thought that a main end of this Rod which now lies upon us, is to beat us into this Covenant; that thereby we may be knit faster to God, to holiness, and each to other by this Band of Unity. Yet the taking, is not the chief part of a Covenant, but the keeping. The benefits of a Covenant are then sure and steadfast to us, when we are steadfast in the Covenant: Now a main cause of unstedfastness in the Covenant, is forgetfulness of it. To prevent this, the Covenant is presented in this form, that being set up before us, it may be daily seen, and by seeing remembered, and by remembering performed: And withal let us remember this; that all the ways of God are mercy and truth to them that fear him, and keep his Covenant. But because no man is strong in his own strength, let us seek strength of Him who is both our strength and our Redeemer, that by Him we may be enabled to keep our Covenant with him, that so he may delight to dwell with us, to be called our God, and to call us his people; upon which happy condition, attend Peace, Prosperity, and all blessings of Heaven and Earth, temporal and eternal.   

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 Reformation 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 and 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, Donfession 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 Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellors and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacon's, and all other Eccelesiastical 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 and 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 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 and 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 and pursuing thereof, and shall not suffer ourselves directly or indirectly, by whatsoever combination, persuasion or terror, to be divided and withdrawn from this blessed Union and 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 and provocations against God, and 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, and 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 & Transgressions, so much abounding amongst us; And our true & 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 disclosed; 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, and encouragement to other Christian Churches groaning under, or in danger of the yoke of Antichristian Tyranny; to join in the same, or like Association and Covenant, to the glory of God, the enlargement of the Kingdom of JESUS Christ, and the Peace and Tranquillity of Christian Kingdoms and commonwealths.    

Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, That this Solemn League and Covenant be forthwith printed and published, and read in all Churches:  
H: Elsing, Cler. Parl. D. Com.   

London, Printed for Edward Husbands, November 16. 1643.