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 Active Testimony 
 
 Of THE 
 
 True Presbyterians of Scotland, 
 being a brief Abftraft of Acknow- 
 ledgment of Sins, and Engagement 
 to Duties, t$c. 
 
 AS ALSO, 
 A Firft and Second Declaration 
 of -Var againft all the Enemies of 
 Christ at Home and Abroad, 
 
 A Fourth, Containing a Declaration and Tejii- 
 many againft the Late unjuft Invafion of Scot- 
 land by CHARLES pretended Prince of 
 Wales* and WILLIAM pretended Duke 
 of Cumberland and their Malignant Emijfarics. 
 
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 And Five valuale Papers befides, all being the 
 Second blaft of the Trumpet. 
 
 Lam. Ill - 40. Let us fearch and try our Ways, and 
 
 turn again to the Lord. 
 Prov. xviii. 10. The Name cf the Lord is a firwg 
 
 Tower. . 
 
 Jer. I. 14. Put your f eh es in Array againft Babylon 
 
 round about. 
 Rev. .xviii. 6. Reward her as fie hath rewarded you. 
 Prov. xxviii. 15-'. As a roaring Lion and araghg Uear % 
 fi is a wicked Ruler ever the People. 
 
 Printed in the YEAR M. DCC. XLIX* 
 
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 The PREFACE. 
 
 THESE late Times have produced many 
 great and fenfible Changes in many, both 
 Matters and P erf ens, and greater are to be 
 -txpecled, thefe extraordinary Commotions, where- 
 by not our Kingdom alone, but moji of the Neigh* 
 touring Nations, are, at this very Hour, fo term 
 ribly Jhaken, we trujl they Jhall prove Preparati- 
 ons for a glorious Work. Doubtlefs e'er long, the 
 Scene of the World mujl be changed, the Man of 
 Sin, and Shame (with all his Limbs) mujl be 
 beaten from the Stage, which he hath long pojfej- 
 fed ; lfrael and Judah with the Fulnefs of the Gen- 
 tiles mujl be brought in, that both may mourn af- 
 ter Christ the common Saviour. The Jhakingt 
 of the Heavens and the Earth are the Lord's 
 Prologues, that the defire of all Nations Jhall come 9 
 and recover his own Rights, and plead his awn 
 Caufe, and take the Prey from the Mighty, and 
 deliver his Captives from the Hands of their Qp- 
 prefors : His antecedent A els which mujl be fulfil- 
 led with fuch joyful Conclujfions, where we an 
 moji likely to be fplit upon the Rocks of defperate 
 Dangers : Then Jhould wetajl up within the Vail 
 the holy Anchor of Hope, the Jlrong Cabel of our 
 confident Expeclation. 
 
 In the fubfequent Papers, are Variety of Mat* 
 Urs, in different Times and Exigences and Eventi 
 that hath pajfed over the Church* s Head, ftnee 
 that fad and woful Catujlrophe cf overturning 
 end ruining the I fork of God in thefe Lands, and 
 burying and bearing down the fame to this cur Day, 
 are to all the true Lovers of Zion that take Plea* 
 A fun 
 
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 fare in her Stones, and favour the Dujl thereof \ 
 Matter of 'Grief ", Lamentatim, Mourning andlp'oe; 
 andaltho' Hope deferred maketh the Heart Sick, 
 yet juhen it comes, is as the Tree of Life, then in 
 Faith and Patience let us poffefs our Souls, and 
 watch and wait for the coming of the Bridegroom* 
 who will build up his Zion and make Jerufalem 
 the Praife of the . ivhole Earth, and bring utter 
 Ruin upon Babylon. 
 
 No doubt, at thefe ftmple hut found Papers, the 
 Criticks will carp, the Rabfhakehs will rail, the 
 Merathaims or the two Rebels will rage and rave, 
 the bloody Hounds tvill gape and threaten to devour 
 and fvjallow up as the Grave, The Laodicians 
 and the yob- trot Profeffor will mutter murmur and 
 inform, and buying about asfo many IVafps with 
 their Stings ready Jharpned, and all the Midia- 
 jiites and Amalakites will be aloft, to execute their 
 Conjuncl defigned Fury againjl thefe Epijlles and 
 their Authors, 
 
 But we can tell them, that we neither love their 
 Caufe, nor fear their Perfons, but through the 
 Jlrength of the mighty Jehovah we hold them at 
 cpen Defiance, if they have Number, we have 
 Pf^eight, we have each but one Life to lofe, and 
 neither have they any Power over that, till they 
 get aPermiffion from above, and then Welcome the 
 divine Difpenfation, he it when it will. The De- 
 fig 72 of publijhing thofe Papers at tbis Times are, 
 firjl, the Glo'/y of God. idly, the Vindication 
 cf Truth, yily, As a Teflimony againjl all the, 
 regnant Evils and Defeclions cf our Day. And 
 Afthly, The b formation and Edification cf others, 
 and to be a Mean to facilitate an Union among /I all 
 that wijh well to our Zion, and long for the 
 down coming ^/Babylon. 
 
 THE 
 
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 THE 
 
 Active Testimony 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 True Covenanted Presbyterians 
 of Scotland, containing an Ab- 
 ftraft of Acknowledgmenf of Sins, 
 and Engagement to Duties, Sy. 
 
 IT is the wonderful and unfpcakable Mercy of God 
 in Christ Jesus, that paffeth all Undemanding, 
 that there is a Remedy provided, and a Saviour 
 fent into the World to lave loll and Self-deftioy- 
 ing Sinners, and that his Obedience to the Law, and 
 his fatisfying divine Julticc is accepted in the Stead, 
 Room and Behalf of Elect. Sinners ; te that they arc 
 not only delivered from Hell and Wrath by the 
 Death and Sufferings of Christ, 'out have a Right to 
 the Inheritance among the Saints in Light by his aclive 
 and paflive Obedience to the Lav. • lb that he is made 
 unto Sinners, Wifdom, Righteoufnefs, SancTification and 
 compleat Redemption ; moreover, the Care, Concern, 
 Love of the Head and Lav; -giver is further manifefted 
 in his giving them good Laws, pure Ordinances, juil 
 Cenfurcs and Government of hi* own Moulding, and 
 preferred a Parity amongll Officers of the fame Kind, 
 With this peremptory Charge, to bold /aft till he come ; 
 but alas, they have done Violcno . chang- 
 
 ed the Ordinances, and broken the cVcrlalling Covenant ; 
 t,u\ as Scotland was - a greater D 
 
 Reformation in all its iParts, and the Purity of the 
 
 Gofpci, 
 
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 Gofpel, with the fuperadded Ties of our National and 
 Solemn League and Covenant above moft Nations m 
 the World : So our Defections, Perjuries and Apoftafics 
 from God, his Truths, Caufe and Covenants is unpa- 
 rallelled, Heaven-daring, wicked and notorious, and 
 our Judgments for the fame feem to be inevitable, 
 and haftneth apace ; and therefore it is our incumbent 
 Duty to ly low in the Duft before him, and to confefs 
 and forfake Sin, that we may find Mercy and Grace to 
 help in Time of Need : Which in the Divine Aflif- 
 tance, and in all Humility, we do as follows. 
 
 ift. We acknowledge and bewail the Sin of Church and , 
 State refpectively, in inferting and ratifying that Claufe in 
 the 4//; Sect, of the i^d Chap, of the Wejlminfter 
 Confeffion of Faith, ** (viz.) Infidelity or Difference in 
 " Religion doth not make void the Magijlrates juft and 
 *' legal Authority, nor free the People from their due 
 " Obedience to them." Whereas the Scope of the 
 Scripture, 1 Pet. ii. Chap. 13, 14, 15-. adduced to 
 prove it, clearly imports, that Magiflratcs juft and le- 
 gal Authority, to whom Obedience for Conlcicnce Sake 
 is due, muft be One who is qualified, and doth govern 
 according to the preceptive Will of God, to the Pu- 
 nifhment of Evii-doers> and to ths Praife of them that 
 do well, which Infidels and Perfonsof a falfe Religion 
 are incapable of, being Slaves to the Devil and their 
 own Lull, that rules in the Children of Difobedience, 
 The forefaid Claufe is alfo contrary to many other 
 Texts of holy Scripture, fuch as Exoi. xviii. 26. 
 Deut. i. 9. Dcut. xvi. 18. 20. Eccl. ii. Sam. xxiii. 
 3, and 4. Pfalms xciv. 20, 21. Rom. xiii. r, and 
 7. and 1 Cor. i. 7. and to the whole preceeding Part 
 of the faid 23^ Chap, of the faid Corfeffioiu where 
 the Office of the civil Magistrate's juft and legal Au- 
 thority is defcribed after fuch a Manner as is abiblutcly 
 inconfiftent and incompatible with Infidelity, or the 
 Profefllon of a falfe or heretical Religion, as is the 
 Cafe betwixt us and the prefent Dominalcrs . 
 
 idly, The Sin of State and Church refpectivcly in 
 inserting and ratifying that Claufe, Sect. 4. Chap. xix. 
 
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 of the faid Confejfian, (viz.) That the Civil and Judi. 
 cial - Law given by God, by the Hand of Mofes to 
 " Ifracl, expired together with the State of that Pco- 
 " pie, not obliging any now, further than the Moral 
 " Equity doth require." Which Claufe we reject as 
 Grcundlefs and Unrcafonable, but affirm, that the whole 
 Civil and judicial Law of God, as given to JJrael by 
 Mofcs y (abftracling from what is Ceremonial and Ty- 
 pical, or what has a fpecial Relation to the pecu- 
 liar Circumftances of that People, and what was per- 
 mitted them anent Poiigamy, Divorce, Slaves, <bc» 
 becaufeofthe Hardnefs of their Hearts.) It is one 
 fpecial Part of the Moral Law, that perfect and eternal 
 Rule of Righteoufnefs delivered to Mankind, contain- ' 
 ing a Saltern of Precepts for the Miniftration of Juftice 
 and right ordering of civil Societies and Common- 
 Wealths for ever, binding all Nations, and all Men, 
 as well Believers, as others, to the Obedience thereof, 
 and that not only in regard to the Matter contained 
 in it, but alfo in Refpcct of the Authority of God the 
 Creator who gave it, which Authority and Obligation, 
 Chriji in the Gofpel doth not arty Way abrogate, but 
 Very much Strengthens and confirms, as Matth. v. 17, 
 18, 19. Rom. iii. 31. Ja. ii. 8. 11. 1 Jo. ii. 3. 
 4, 7. and 1 Jo. iii. 4. And yea moreover, 'tis moft 
 certain, That the Ceremonial Law itfelf, had (till re- 
 mained in full Force, and of perpetual Obligation, by 
 the Virtue and Authority of its firit. Promulgation, had 
 not the Law-giver repealed it, it being fulfilled in the 
 Death of CHRIST ; fo that we mud look upon the fc* 
 veral Kingdoms and Common-wealths of Europe, at this 
 Day as guilty of worlhipping the Image of theBeaft, and 
 even in this Refpeet (amongit others) that they have 
 rejected and laid afiuc the Civil and judicial Law of 
 GOD delivered to Ifrcct, as the Balis of their Consti- 
 tution and National Laws, both as to its Matter an4 
 Authority, and inltcad thereof, hath made the Rcman t 
 Pagan, and Popifb Civil and Canon Laws, together 
 tvith their own corrupt Reafon, Inclination and Con- 
 venience, the fuprcme Rule and Square of the Nation- 
 al 
 
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 ^1 Laws and Conftituiion confider Pfa 1 . cxlvii. \p t 
 2o. Atts xiv. 15. 16. Rev. v. 11. and ifo>. xviii.- 
 14, 15-. 6ff. 
 
 3^, We ackowlcdge the Sin of thefc Lands in 
 Church and State reject ively, in- not proceeding to juft 
 Cenfures and Pimifhment againft that notorious Ty- 
 rant Charles the I. for his wicked Oppolition to the 
 Work of GOD and Reformation of ihefe Lands, and 
 for the horrid and cruel MalTacre of Ireland, and for 
 his other repeated Acts of OpprcfTIon, Sacrilege, Blood 
 "and Tyranny, and labouring to introduce Popery , Ma- 
 very, Atheifm and Profanity into thefc Lands, by per- 
 fecting thefe, that refufed to read the Book of Sports 
 on the Sabbath-day, &c. 
 
 qthfy, The Sin of State and Church, in entring into 
 publick Refolutions, bringing in, and admitting thcMa- 
 lignant Party into Places of Power and Truft, contrary 
 to the Word of GOD, and exprefs Tenor of our Co- 
 venants, which produced molt woful Effects, a Sin yet 
 lying heavy upon us and theLand even at this very 
 Day, the fame fmful Courfes, Practice and footing, be- 
 ing continued to the Detriment and Hindrance of all 
 true Religion and Reformation in the Land. 
 
 $thly, We defire to mourn for thcSins of thefc Lands, 
 for the proclaiming 2nd receiving Charles II. as King 
 over Britain and Ireland, who was embarked in, and 
 combined with his Father in the fame malignant Caufe 
 and IntereiT both in Principle and Practice, as was evi- 
 dent thro' the whole Series of his Couife and Conduct, 
 and in all the Sham Treaties he had with the Commif- 
 iionersfent to him, hedifcovcred himfclf to be a jug- 
 ling and profane Atheilt and Deceiver. 
 
 6thly, We acknowlege the Sin of Chu hand State, 
 in not erecting a true Magiftracy, conform to the W T ord 
 of GOD and Scope of our Covenants, but bafely fub- 
 mifting to the Ufurpation of liver O-om-jcel, whole Ad- 
 miniftration and Proceedings were one continued Act - 
 of Tyranny and Perjury, while h** tolerated- and main- 
 tained the perfidious and wicked Sectarians of all Sorts, 
 
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 and thereby did moft openly and avowedly violate tUe 
 chief End of our Holy and facred Covenants. 
 
 Jthfy, VVc bewail the Sin of State and Church, in per* 
 Yecuting and excommunicating that eminently pious, 
 good and brave Man Colonel Strachan, for his Duty, 
 in rejecting wicked Charles the II. and his curfed malig- 
 nant Intercft ; which Sin lies yet heavy upon the Land. 
 Sthly, The Sin of Church and State refpeclively, in. 
 the fecond Reception of perfidious Charles the II. in. 
 the Year 1660, when he was fo knowingly an inve- 
 terate Enemy to the Work of Reformation, yea, to 
 Chriftianity itfelf ; and thereafter in the Year 166.2, 
 and downwards, ftill adhering to him, when breaking 
 down, ruining and overturning the whole Work of 
 Reformation, by the Acl RefciiTory, made by Virtue 
 of the blafphemoufly ufurped Supremacy (by him af- 
 fumed)' accompanied with treacherous infnaring Indul- 
 gences, defigned for breaking and dividing the Lords 
 People, and inforccd by his continued, avowed, horrid 
 Acls of Blood, Sacrilege and Tyranny. 
 
 $thly\ The Sin of the Land, in owning, maintain- 
 ing and complying with the ufurped Supremacy, conti- 
 nued and enlarged, the wicked deceitful, and Hell -hatch- 
 ed Tolerations fought and granted, and all the other 
 many wicked Laws, perjurious Oaths, and bloody Afls 
 made, impofed, and executed contrary to the Word of 
 God, and all Laws divine and humane, during the 
 Ufurpation and Tyranny of that Bloody, Idolatrous, 
 Jefuitcd Papift James Duke of York, \\\\o deferved 
 Cenfurc rather than a Crown, or the Rule of a Chriftian 
 People, fee. 
 
 lot My, We acknowledge the Sin of the Land in 
 foliating, receiving, owning and maintaining William 
 Prince of Orange, Anna Princcfs of Denmark, tnd the 
 Ceorge'% Dukes of Hannover to be chief Magittrates in 
 thefc Lands without Regard to, or requiring Scipture 
 and Covenant-Qualifications in them, or any others 
 in Power and Truft under them, while they -ACo 
 exercife an ufurped Eraftian Power over the Church, and 
 Opprcllion andTyranny in the State ; as is evident and 
 B man* 
 
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 IttamTeft from their eftablilhing and fettling l mock 
 Presbyterian Government upon the People's wavering 
 Inclinations, and confequently denying it to be of Di- 
 vine Right, tho' it be in reality for their own Conveni- 
 ency and worldly Eafc ; and fo has the bloody ufurped 
 Supremacy for its Foundation, and their contriving and 
 letting on the inhumane Maflfacre of Glenco, &c, and 
 the Deftruction of Darian, which fatal and grievous 
 Blow Scotland feels the Smart thereof to this very Day; 
 and their Tyranny and Qppreflion with heavy and ex- 
 orbitant Taxes to maintain vile Strumpets, Pcnfioners 
 and Panders for Hell, befictys. mod arrogantly afTurning 
 a Power to pardon Murderers?' Swearing, profaning the 
 holy Sabbath, being a Terror to the Good, and En- 
 courager of Evil-doers, and all Manner of Wicked- 
 nefs, and Immoralities of all Sorts and Sizes, needs 
 no Demonftration ; being obvious to every Man's View 
 and Experience : Therefore on thefe and the like 
 Grounds and Reafons, Wc hold, efteem and declare 
 it a grievous Sin to own, maintain, fupport or defend 
 the prefent Duke of Hannover, or his Pofterity, or any 
 Men of their Practice, either Popijh, Prelatkk, Eraf- 
 tian, Sectarian or Lutheran in Principle, or any other 
 Ufurpcrs in State or Church, which at this Day are 
 entirely compoled of Malignants and abominable Sec- 
 taries of all Sorts, and of monftrous Shapes and fright- 
 ful Vifagcs. 
 
 1 1 thly, The Sin of the diftenting Party, in relinquifh- 
 ing the Active Teftimony expreily contained in the 
 Covenants both National and Solemn League, and fur- 
 ther profecuted and owned by thefe eminent Martyrs* 
 Meflieurs Cameron, Car gill, Haxton, Hall, Skeen, Bal- 
 four, &c. according to the Tenor of Rutherglen, San- 
 quhar and Lanerk Declarations, and Qneem-Ferry Paper 
 in the Year 1680 and 1682, while they endeavoured 
 to fet up a godly Magistracy and form a civil State. And 
 as the firft Step towards that laudable Defign did inveft 
 themfelvcs (in a Convention) with authoritative Pow- 
 er, by Virtue whereof they depofed thcTyrants then in 
 Being, and declared War againft them and all their 
 
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 Afiociate in Principle and Practice, fyc. but the dif* 
 fenting Party has renounced the Active Teftimony 
 both materially and formally. See Informatory Vin- 
 dication, Head 2d. And has overturned the very Prin- 
 ciples of a covenanted Reformation by their negative, 
 palfive Teftimony, in fuch a Meafure, that according 
 to their Way, all Profpccts of national Reformation or 
 bringing down the Kingdom of Antichrifl y in Time com- 
 ing, is entirely cut off and frustrated, except by the 
 Primores regni, (as they fpeak) or a whole complex 
 Body Politick, or the greatefl Part of the Nation. 
 
 Now granting the Duties of the Covenants, natio- 
 nal and folcmn League, were, That all the Members 
 of the Common-wealth mould conjunctly and fevcrally 
 endeavour Reformation, moving every one in their 
 proper Places and Callings, and that (continuing faith- 
 ful fo to do) none could have, without unjuft Invafion, 
 entered upon the Place, Calling or Office, of another ; 
 Yet it is plain and evident to a Demonftration, that 
 the Primoret as they call thcmfclves,and others, have 
 forfeited their Right (if ever they had any) by neglect 
 of Duty, Defection, Perjury, and other high Crimes 
 and Mifdemeanors, <bc It is not only lawful for, but 
 the indifpenlible Duty of others that would not be found 
 alike guilty, tno' in an inferior Station, to fupply the 
 Places of thefc Forfeitcrs and Traitors to God and 
 their Country, and to ftand to the general Obligations, 
 which all and every one were bound conjunctly and 
 fevcrally to fee the Duty performed, by fubltiiuting in 
 their Places, Callings and Offices, Men of found Prin- 
 ciples, fuitable Practices and blamelefs Convcrfation, 
 to be Magiftrates and Rulers, for the Ends and Effects 
 aforcfaid, fcc. 
 
 \itbly t We acknowledge the Sin of fuch, that altho* 
 adhering to a "Negative, Pallive Teftimony, but yet 
 ufurping the Holy Office of the Miniftry under Pre- 
 tence of an extraordinary or mixed Call, without fo 
 much as apparent Right, Qualification, or the Formali- 
 ty of the Call of an Eldcrfhip, iho* even that from 
 Men of their own Principles were invalid : Therefore 
 
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 toe declare them and all others in general, Intruders, 
 that have done, do, or (hall ufurp the faid Office of 
 the Miniftry, until the Concurrence can be had of an 
 Elderfhip, conftitutcd of a furficicnt Number of able 
 judicious Chriftians, faithfully adhering to our Covenan- 
 ted Engagements, and profecuting the Ends of our holy 
 Covenants under a lawful Magiftraey, which Eldcrlhip 
 (according to their Meafure) may fully try the Ability 
 of fuch as offer themfclvcs Candidates to the holy Mi- 
 niftry, and proceed in the molt logal Way, practicable 
 in fuch a Cafe of Ncceffity, to Election or Ordination ; 
 unlefs any Man or Men can folidly inftrucl and prove, 
 upon good and valid Grounds, his or their Call, Com- 
 miiTion or Million to be extraordinary or immediate : In 
 that Cafe we fliall reft fatisfled and well content with 
 the Divine Difpenfation; but wanting this, we mull 
 have Recourfe to the ordinary Means prefcribed in his 
 Word, which is the unerring Rule in all Duties, and 
 at all Times, tec* 
 
 A Solemn Engagement to Duties. 
 
 \fl. \T 7 E en g a g e to own and avouch the only true 
 yV ar) d living God, Father, Son and Holy 
 Ghost, to be our God, and to clofe with his Way of 
 Redemption by his Son Jesus Christ, and to rely upon 
 his Righteoufnefs, a? that alone, whereby a Sinner can 
 be juftified in the Sight of God, fanetined and faved, 
 and made meet and fit to be Partakers of the Inheri- 
 tance amongft the Saints in Light. 
 
 %dfy, We engage to hold and efteem the holy Scrip- 
 tuies of the Old and New Teftaments ; for a full and 
 complcat Rule of Faith and Practice, and endeavour to 
 *ralk by that Rule in our Lives and Converfation, as 
 becometh Profeffors of the Gofpcl, gjtf. 
 
 ^dly, To adhere to the Wejlminjler Confefton of Faith \ 
 {excepting the Dcfefts above-mentioned in the At- ' 
 
 know- 
 
 
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 knowkdgment of Sins, lft. and 2d. Articles) and Cj- 
 techifm:, Larger and Shorter, Sum of ' Javhig Kwrwledge t 
 D\rc(hry for Wor/hip, Acknowledgment of Sins, and 
 Engagement to Duties, and Prcsbyterial Church-Go- 
 vernment, and to our Solemn anJ facrcd Covenants, „ 
 National and Solemn League, and the antient Corona* 
 tion Oath of Scotland, as agreeable to, and founded 
 Upon GOD's molt holy Word. 
 
 ^th/y, We engage to adhere to the Civil Law of 
 COD, delivered to his People by Mofcs (excepting as 
 in the 2d Article of Acknowledgment of Sins) as the 
 Balis of all other Laws to be made ; declaring that no 
 Regulations (hall be in Force that interferes with, or con- 
 trary to, or Invalidatesthe fame, or any Part of them. 
 
 $thly, To own, adhere to, and fupport Civil Go- 
 vernment and Rulers according to GOD's preceptive 
 Will, viz. Judges, Counfellors and Officers ; Regard 
 being had to the Civil and Judicial Law af jrefaid, for 
 iheir Qualifications and Admiflion, viz. Men fearing 
 GOD, and haling Covetoufncfs, Men of Truth, and 
 known among the Tribes, jult, ruling in the fear of 
 GOD, &c. as Exod. xviii. 21, 22. Deut. xvi. iS. 
 \y. and 1 Sum. xxiii. 4. 
 
 6thl)\ To appoint a great Council, confiding of a 
 compleat Number of Elders, or chief Judges, to receive 
 and hear all Appeals in Matters Civil or Criminal, and 
 to put in Execution all Laws and Regulations agreed 
 upon, and publickly eftablifhed through the Land, c- 
 fpecially ampngfl the Community that embraces the a- 
 bove Truths, 6r. 
 
 -]tbly, To erect and eftabliih all other neceflary Courts 
 of Jullice, as the fame (hall be found molt conducible 
 to the Glory of GOD and the good of the Nation and 
 Common-wealth, in a general Convention of the States 
 of the Land and Kingdom of Scoilund. 
 
 Zthly y Wc do folemnly engage to re/lore and con- 
 ftt ute, with all poffible Diligence and Dilpatch, a 
 formal National Presbyterian Church, cnpjmg her 
 at rinlicil Pewer and Privileges, mw| EcckluiUcal Go- 
 vern- 
 
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 vernment. diftinct from the Civil Government of the 
 State, and with all her juft Rights and Privileges (as 
 the fame do, or (hall appear from GODS Word) her 
 Meetings in Kirk-SefTions, Presbyteries, Synods, and 
 General-AfTemblics, and our States are hereby exprek 
 ]y obliged to ratify and confirm, by their Civil Sanction, 
 all her juft Laws, Acts and Cenfures, and to defend 
 tnd fecure her Hedge, by punifhing Capitally obfti- 
 nate Invaders, and grofs Offenders, in a juft, legal and 
 fuitable Way, in Proportion to their Demerit. 
 
 9tk(y, We engage to aflfert, reftore and maintain the 
 abfolute and free Independency and Sovereignty of our 
 State, againft all unjuft Invaders and ©ppreffors at Home 
 and Abroad, and to bring tt> Trial and conding Puniftt- 
 ment all fuch as have eminently tranfgrefled in this 
 Kind, or Manner already, or fhall be convicted thereof, 
 in any Time coming, without Refpect of Perfons 
 
 lothly. We engage to refcind, abolifh and cancel al 
 former Civil Acts and Laws of State whatfoever, that 
 are not founded upon common Equity, or the Law 
 and Word of GOD, and particularly, the prefent impi- 
 ous and curfed Union, fo deftructive to Religion and 
 Liberty ; and all other Acts and Laws that are any Way 
 prejudicial to, or a Hindetance of the true Religion, the 
 Liberty and Independence of the Land, and the real 
 and juft Sovereignty thereof; but to renew, ratify and 
 confirm all fuch Acts and.Laws as (hall be found agree- 
 able to the Word of GOD, and confident with our 
 Covenanted Engagement's, and founded upon Equity, 
 and apparently conducive to thepublick Good. 
 . i \thly y We engage for the Relief of the Poor, and 
 more comfortable Subfiftance of the Commons, and the 
 general Increafe of the Subftance of the whole Land : 
 We mail prohibite the Importation of all foreign Goods, 
 Manufactures and Commodities not truly conducive, 
 nor neceflary to the publick Good and National lntcreft I 
 in general, and that we never fhall impofe nor fuffcr to I 
 be impofed, under any Pretence whatfoever, any Tax, j 
 Burden or Impofl upon the Produce, or Manufacture!, : 
 
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 -of our own Land, neither upon their Conlumptlon it 
 Home, or Exportation Abroad to foreign Places. 
 
 \2thly, We folemnly engage, in the Divine Strength 
 and Affiftance, to cleanfe the Land of all Hereticks, 
 Seducers, falfe Prophets, Deceivers, and peftilcnt Mo- 
 vers of Sedition, fuch as Popery, Prelacy, Eraftianifm, 
 Seclarianifm, and other Evils contrary to found Doc- 
 trine and the Power of Godlinefs, and fhall endeavour: 
 to fupprefs and bear down all Vice, Superftition, Im- 
 moralities, Stage-Plays, Sabbath-breakers, Swearers, A- 
 dulterers, and all Profanity whatfoever, and in whom- 
 foever they be found. 
 
 Moreover, we engage by the AfTiftance aforefaid, not 
 only to profecutethe Ends of our Covenants, National 
 and folemn League, by endeavouring the Reftoration 
 and Eftablifhment of a Covenanted Work of Reforma- 
 tion, throughout Scotland, England and Ireland ; but 
 as the LORD will give Power and Succcfs, we fhall en- 
 deavour the Advancement of the Kingdom of our Lord 
 JESUS CHRIST, in Oppofition to Antichrift, and all 
 his Aflbciates and Abetters whatever, to the utter Ruvi 
 of Babylon^ or the Kingdom of Antichrift and Satan, by 
 profecuting the Ends of a Covenanted-Reformation 
 throughout other Lands, by the Word, and alio by the 
 Sword, that the LORD may be one, and bis Name one 
 throughout all the Earth ; and particularly, that our 
 Elder Brethren, the long rejedted Jc%js y may embrace 
 the glorious Light of the Gofpel, and befaved accord- 
 ing to the faithful Promifes of GOD in his Word, and 
 all Humbling Blocks being removed out of the Way ; 
 we fhall of all Nations of the Earth give them the 
 Right-Hand of Felloufliip, and aflift them to the ut- 
 termoft of our Power, in recovering and fetting them 
 in their own Land, even the Land of Canaan, given to 
 their Fathers ; their Reftoration and Salvation, both 
 Spiritual and Temporal, being fully held out and ma* 
 nifefted in the Divine Oracles, that they and we may 
 live in Faith and Love and Comforts of the HOLY" 
 GHOST, and that the Glory of GOD may be sC 
 and he Kingdom of CHRIST enlarged ;o the ^\^,^ 
 
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 Bounds of the habitable World, and the Knowledge of 
 GOD may cover the Earth, as the Waters cover the 
 Sea, &c. 
 
 At Edinburgh) Sic Suhfcribttur. 
 
 JOHN HALDEiV. 
 JAMES LESLIE. 
 
 A DECLARATION ofVVAR 
 
 againft all the Enemies of Christ 
 at Home and Abroad. 
 
 WE the mod Serene and mod Potent in the 
 LORD, the covenanted States of the Com- 
 mon-Wealth of Scotland, and adhering to the annexed 
 Teftimony ; and according to the Tenor thereof, being | 
 chofen Reprelcntatives, with full Power to this Effect, 
 do, by Vertue of our Authority, in a Legal Way and II 
 Manner, conform to the faid Teflimony, as the only 
 Standard of Truth, the Adherence whereof in Principle 
 and Practice, as they feverally relate ; fliall be held 
 and reputed the Claim of Right, that any Pcrfon may 
 plead Intereft in our Favour and Protection, or Title, 
 with other needful Qualifications to Places of Power 
 and Truft in State and Church, declaring the Articles 
 of Engagement to Duties, to have the full Force of 
 Foundamental Laws, to take Place immediately after 
 due Publication hereof; fo we, in the Name of the 
 Lord JESUS CHRIST, the fole and only King of the 
 whole Earth, and fuprcme Head of our State, and in oilr 
 own Name and Authority, as his Vicegerents ; do fo- 
 lemnly declare a War, againft Turk, Pope and Prelate^ 
 and all their Aflbciates and Abetters whatever, with 
 out League or Truce, for ever ; and againft ail Power 
 whatfoever, that refufe to fubmit their "Necks to tl 
 "Yoke of King JESUS, or denies true and full Obediccn< 
 to his revealed Laws, in State and Church, until hi 
 
 King- 
 
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 - Kingdom be fettled, according to the Gift of \hc Fa- 
 ther, from Sun rifing to the fetting thereof. 
 
 Finally, againft all U fur per* or Deniers of our juft 
 Authority, Contemners of our juft Laws, now, or here- 
 after to be emitted, and a/1 pretended Neutrals withrn. 
 our Dominions, or elfe where, being our Subjects. AND 
 "WHEREAS, by thejuft: Judgment of GOD upon us 
 for all our Abominations and Perjuries inDefpite and 
 Contempt of all former Mercies, and our former folemn 
 Engagments, the Land is now brought under cruel 
 Slavery and Bondage, and opprefTed by two principal 
 Factions, one adhering to the Duke of Hanover', a 
 Foreigner by Birth, of a falfe Religion, long fmce ab- 
 jured by us, haying no Manner of Claim, but by Vir- 
 tue of the accurfed Union, which we hereby cxprcfly 
 difclaim, renounce, and abrogate, as impious in its 
 felf, utterly incon&ftcnt with our covenanted Engag- 
 ments, the Sovereignty and Independence of our 
 Eftate. Declaring all the Authors, and active Abet- 
 tors thereof, Enemies to Gad, and Traitors to their 
 Country, 
 
 The other Faction, adhering to a Popijh Pretender, 
 who, by his open and avowed Profeflion, is a grols I- 
 dola^er, a fworn Slave to Antichrijl, and by the Law 
 pf God, fhould die the Death, as he further deferves, 
 for his frequent invading of our Lands with Fire and 
 Swoid, and his being the Caufe of fo much Blood-fhed ; 
 which we hope, by God's Strength doubly to repay 
 him and his Adherents. We declare, wefhall free the 
 Lands from thefc, and all other Enemies of what- 
 ever Denomination, and execute true Juftice and Judg- 
 ment according to God's Laws, without Partiality or 
 Refpect of Perfbns, as we tender the Favour ef Al- 
 mighty God, and enact fach Laws as are agreeable to, 
 and founded on the Civil and judicial Laws, agroeabte 
 to our Chriftian Liberty, and Moral Equity, and fee 
 the fame duly execute. 
 
 We voluntarily offer our AfTiitance to the utmeft of 
 
 our Power, to all Nations, or Parties of Pecjple, that 
 
 a;e willing to advance CHRI§T^and their own Rights, 
 
 G Civi} 
 
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 Civil and Eccltfiaftick, on their firm Adherence to tlis 
 ^above Truths, and true Endeavours to bring them 
 to Practice, as really, as if they were entered into ex- 
 prefs League with us-, and in particular, we offer to 
 the Jews, on their embracing and receiving. CHRIST 
 JESUS our common LORD and SAVIOUR, and walk- 
 ing worthy of him, not only to Treat with them as a 
 free independent Nation, but will give them only of all 
 Nations of the Earth our Right-hand of Fellowfhip, as 
 our elder Brethren, and receive them kindly into our 
 Country, and ufe our faithful Endeavours to reftorc 
 them their hereditary Country, the Land of Canaan, 
 in Oppofition to all Power whatever that may with- 
 ftand it, and to do them all poflible Favour and Ho- 
 nour they can expect or defne 
 
 We charge all our Country-men, and the Inhabi- 
 tants of thefe covenanted Lands, to feek earneftly of 
 GOD, the Grace of true and finccre Repentance, for 
 what Hand they and we have had, in provoking him 
 to Anger, by our grofs Defections from him, either 
 actively or paflively ; of which few, if any are clear, 
 that he may take Pleafure to unite us again in Truth 
 and Holinefs, and turn from his fierce Wrath. 
 
 AND FINALLY, we require and command all our 
 loving Subjects, of what Station foever, they now do, or 
 fhall hereafter lawfully enjoy, to give us open and un- 
 doubted Proof of their Loyalty to us, and our lawful 
 Officers, in the jult Execution of their refpective Of- 
 fices by Sea or Land, by giving them true Aid, Afliit- 
 ance and Obedience, as the Law of GOD wills, and 
 hereby charge in our own Name and Authority our 
 Herr.ulds at Arms, and other proper Officers, to fee, 
 and caufe this our Declaration to* be publifhed in due 
 Form, at the proper and ufual Places, as they fhali 
 Anfwer the contrary, at their utmoft Peril. 
 
 Given at Laudinum % 29. Day of Ottober, 1 7397, 
 being the firft Year of our Covenanted States. 
 Signed and Counter-figned. 
 
 J N. H N. 
 
 ASe*j 
 
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 A Second DECLARATION of 
 
 War againft all the avowed and 
 declared Enemies of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ, and his Righteous 
 Caufe. 
 
 WE true Preshyterans, the Succeflbrs of the fa-' 
 mous Convention at Lanark afllmbled An- 
 no 1682, owning and adhering to the fame 
 Caufe, and efpoufing the fame Truths and Teftimony 
 •with them, do, in the Name of the true and living GOD, 
 and by Virtue of their Authority, (yet remaining un- 
 (haken, for all the Efforts made againft it by pretended 
 Friends and open Enemias) and our own radical and 
 inherent Rights, purfuing the fame Quarrel, and pro- 
 fecuting the fame War againft the fame Enemies of 
 CHRIST our King, under whofe Banner, and by uhofc 
 Strength and Conduct we declare a War againft the Turk t 
 Pope and Prelates, and all their Aftbciates, Adherents, 
 Partakers and Supporters whatfoever, without any Par- 
 ley, Treaty of Peace, Capitulation, Compofition,Truce, 
 or any Tranfac c tion with them or any of them for 
 ever, that may in the leaft be derrogatory to Truth, 
 or make us furceafe from our Duty ; and we, in the 
 lame Name, and by Viriue of the Authority aforefaid, 
 declare a War againft all Murderers and Perfecuters 
 of the Innocent, and in a Particular Manner, againft: 
 the thrice curfed ravenous and rapacious bloody Houfe 
 of Auflria, and the violent and virulent Tyger of Sa- 
 voy, who have flaed Seas of the Saints Blood, and 
 laid wafte and ruined the once famous and tlourifhing 
 Churches in Hungary, Bohemia, and the two Sicilies 
 the Palatine, Piedmont, and many other Places in 
 Germany and Belgium, aud hath ftied more Chriftian 
 Blood than cither Turk or Tartar, or all the "Nations 
 in Europe ever did upon a religious Account, for which 
 
 they 
 
they ought and may get Blood to annk, for they re" 
 worthy, and the Cup that they have filled to others, 
 mould 6e ill led to them double ; and to all their Con- 
 federates, Aflbciates, till they be exterminated from off 
 the face of the Earth, as the greatefl Scourge and 
 Plagues that ever the World faw. 
 
 M reover we, in the Name and by the Authority a- 
 forefaid, declare a War againft the Sacrilegious Throne 
 of Britain, and the PoiTefTors thereof, with all their 
 Supporters, Abtettors, Aiders and Confederates what- 
 fbmever, by Sea or Land, at Home or Abroad, for all 
 their Violence and Villanies in laying wafte ourLORD's 
 Heritage, razing, overturning, bearing down the Caufe 
 of CHRIST, and Work of Reformation in thefc 
 Land's, burning and burying our Holy Covenants, 
 and building their Babels;, and tearing up their Prela- 
 tical and Eraftian Fabricks upon the Rums thereof, and 
 alio mofl blafphemoufly ufurping the Royal Preroga- 
 tive of the eternal Son of GOD, who is the alone 
 and undoubted King and Head of his Church, which 
 is his Body \ yet they daringly prefumc to rob him 
 of the fame, by claiming a Beadfhip Over the 
 Church and by Virtue of that Ufurpation, they call 
 and difloive fpiritual Courts and Alfemblies, and pre- 
 ferring Caufes and appointing Diets and Days of Fad- 
 ing and Thankfgiving throughout the Land, and pre- 
 fentirig and forcing Incumbents upon rncft Panihes 
 -without the Peoples Confent, and many other Invafi- 
 ons and Incroachments made upon CHRIST'S Free- 
 hold by the Occupant upon the Throne of -Britain, 
 and his black Cabal, for which they muft be accoun- 
 table one Day ; and for all their other Abominations and 
 Wickcdnefs in protecting and pardoning Murderers* 
 and encouraging all Sorts of evil Doers, as Juggler* 
 Plays and their Haunters, Curfers, 'Swearers, Propha- ; 
 ners of the Sabbuth-Day, Whoredoms of all Kinds, j 
 Pimps and Panders for Hdl, and alio for their "horrid ] 
 finful Conjunction and Aflbciation and Confederation, ; 
 with thefc Idolatrous, bloody, hutching Burners, the 1 
 Aujlrian Jezebel and Sardinian Ahab> (and now with J 
 
 Francs ] 
 
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 France, Spain and Italy, and all the Limbs of Anti- 
 chrilt) and their Abettors, and for all their Tyranny, 
 OpprefTions, heavy Taxes, impofing unlawful Oaths, 
 Bribery and Corruption, and many other tremenduous 
 Wi'ckednefles too long here to relate. 
 
 Alfo we, in the Name and by the Authority afore- 
 faid, declare a War againft the PciliJential Seel of Se* 
 cedcrs, for their mad and ftupid Loyalty to the Idola- 
 trous Throne of Britain, and their fupporting the fame 
 with all their Might, and for their wicked and perni- 
 cious Principles, affirming that Mgiftracy is founded u* 
 pon mere Nature, and fo confequently is not the Ordi» 
 nance of God; as if God who made the World had 
 caften off all Care of the fame, and left it only to be 
 governed by Mans Inventions, and their deltroying and 
 overturning our Reformation Principles, by mangling, 
 curtailing and clipping our Solemn-Covenants, or ei(c 
 laying them wholly afide, and burying them in Obli- 
 vion, and fubftituting a fpurious Brat of their own be- 
 getting in their Room, Place and Stead j and for their 
 malicious Lies and Reproaches call upon the Lord's 
 People in thefe Lands, and their gadding about and 
 traverfing through the Land like light Mountebank* 
 feducing and deceiving the unliable, giddy Multitude 
 with their fair Speeches and plaulible Pretences, and 
 for their wicked and audacious AS. in daring to fummoa 
 before their unhal lowed Conclave, and for Noncom- 
 pcarance to excommunicate many true Presbyterians, 
 both Minifters and People in this Land, merely for their 
 Duty in oppofing in fome fmall Meafure their incontin- 
 ent, new and ftrange Way : And yet in the mean Time 
 leaving all the prophane Debauchees, Blafphemers, 
 Jugglers, Atheifts, Idolaters, and the wicked Th'one 
 untouched with their Wooden-Sword, and altho' their 
 Fulmination be of no more avail, and are as little to be 
 regarded, as the curfed Pope\ Bulls againit the Protef- 
 tants, yet their implacable Malice is never a Whit the 
 Jefs againft the Truth and its Owners j and as they 
 have no Authority but what they arrogantly ufurp to 
 themfelves over thefe Innocent People, fo they con- 
 temn, 
 
ternn, defpife and defy them and their Hunt Wooden - 
 5\pord. The Rebound thereof will come back upon 
 themfelves with a Vengeance, to their Shame and 
 Cenfufion of Face ; and many other Crimes of which 
 they are culpable, and for which, they mufl be accoun- ' 
 table and pay the Cod e'er long. 
 
 Finally, againft all other Sectaries of the old and 
 new Stamp, with Eraftians and Arminians, and againft all ' 
 Reproachers of the Saints dead or living, and all Image- ' 
 makers and their AfTociates and Maintainers of that 
 pernicious Principle, that common Providence is the 
 Rule of our Duty; and all Apoftates, and Deferters 
 •of Truth and Duty, and againft all Halters, Loiterers 
 and Neutrals, that refufe or delay to embrace the 
 Truth as it is in Jesus, and to maintain and defend : 
 the- fame to the utmoft of their Power. 
 
 Now we earneftly intreat and invite all, or any of 
 the Parties or Perfons aforefaid, to leave of their Babel- 
 building, and come out from AntichrijFs Camp, and 
 join themfelves to the Lord and his Caufe and Intereft, 
 and help him againft the Mighty, or elfe they may ex- 
 pect the heavy Doom and Curfe ot.Meroz, &c. We 
 charge and command you, our Suhftitutes to fee and 
 caufe this our Declaration be publifhed in due Form, at 
 the Publick and ufual Places, as they will anfwer at their 
 Peril. Given at Hemlock-ridge, on the third Day of 
 April Years by Command, Signed. 
 
 Signed 
 Counter Signed t 
 
 J.H. 
 J.L. 
 
 A D E C L A- 
 
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 ADECLARATlONand 
 TESTIMONY againft the 
 Late Invafion of Scotland^ by the 
 two young Pretenders, viz. Char- 
 les and William. 
 
 SUch hath ever been' the inveterate Malice of Satan 
 (that old fiery Serpent) againft the Church of God, 
 that he hath partly, by bloody Butcheries and open 
 Hoftilities, and partly by Seduction and contagious He- 
 refies, fought utterly to quench and extinguiih the glo- 
 rious Light of the Word of God and tire Gofpel of 
 Jesus Christ, that (all Men fitting in Darknefs) 
 he might the fooner blow up the whole Frame of the 
 Houfe of God. How far the Powers and pretended 
 Potentates of the Earth have been conducive thereun- 
 to, and advanced themfcives in his Service, the Ex- 
 perience of all Ages and our own Hiftories do fuflici- 
 ently declare, the greateft without Comparifon and 
 moft admirable Work which the Hand of God hath 
 brought about upon Earth in thefe latter Days, is, the 
 Reformation of Religion from Antichriftian Pollution 
 and Tyranny, no other could been expected from the 
 furious Prince o{ the bottomlefs Pit, but extream Op- 
 pofition to this fo great a Detriment and fo high a Pre- 
 judice to his tottering Kingdom. How many fo called 
 Princes, States and wicked Rulers, hath he ftirred up, 
 to pcrfccutc and profecute \\i*h Fire and Sword to the 
 cruclleft Deaths, the innocent WitnelTes of the Truths 
 of Christ. Alfo how many learned Divines, and 
 Perfons of notaMe Parts hath he bewitched with his 
 Inchantments, to fpend their Spirits and precious 
 Time in maintaining by Might and Main, \* ord and 
 Writing, the mod palpable Abfurdities and 
 
 Abominations oi tbat 
 
( H ) 
 
 Limbs and Members : The wicked Sectaries, who in 
 the Darknefs of our Deformation are creeping out of 
 their Dens and Holes, as fo many Locufts out of the 
 Bottomlefs Pit of Hell, feducing and deceiving, if it 
 were poflible, the very Elecl. 
 
 But the chief Artifice, whereby this wicked and 
 crafty Serpent hath molt impeded and hindred the Pro- 
 grefs of the Gofpel and the Advancement of glqrious 
 Christ'j Kingdom in the World, is his powerful 
 working in the Children of Difobcdieacc, in begetting 
 and maintaining that moll pernicious, itrational and 
 ilavifh Principle amongft Mankind, viz. The owning, 
 maintaining and fubmitting their Necks, to the heavy 
 Yokes of ciuel Tyrants and Ufurpers, as their lawful 
 and rightiul Rubers ; a Principle i'o brutifh in itfelf, fo 
 contrary to right Reafon, to Liberty, Property ; to their 
 Freedom as Men, and to Confcience as Chriftians : 
 And above all, fo flatly oppolite to the Precepts in the 
 "Word of God, and wickedly palliating all fuch brutifh 
 Compliance, with this pitiful Quirk, that Magiftracy 
 is founded on Nature. 
 
 And wonder it is, how Men endued with rational 
 Souls, having the Excrcife of Reafon and in their right 
 "Wits, mould be fo far deluded and blinded with the 
 Cod of the World, as to entertain fuch a deftru&ive 
 Principle, fo vifibly ruinous to both Civil and Religious 
 Interefts, amongft Men and Chriftians. 
 
 And that corrupted Nature, fince the Fall of A Jam 
 mould be the Ground and Foundation of civil Magis- 
 tracy is a Paradox, and a Tenet as falfe, as it is 
 Blafphemous for to introduce corrupt Nature (and let 
 afide the Law and Word of GOD) as the Rule to e- 
 rect and own Civil Magiftrates, is no other, but to lean 
 to the Covenant of Works, and neglect and lay aftde 
 that of Grace. And it is manifeft and obvious to all 
 Mankind, what woful EfTeels corrupt Nature (for there 
 js no other fmce the Fall^) hath brought forth in the 
 "World where Grace hath been wanting. But we mall 
 have Occafion to touch a little on this Foiru after- 
 wards* 
 
 Now 
 
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 Now ahho' we have, in our former Declarations at 
 eyery emergent and diftinguifhing Event, teftified a- 
 gainft all the Tyranny, Bloodfhed, Ufurpations and 
 ■ Defections both of old and of late, done in thefe 
 Lands, and by all Ranks and Degrees in it, and, alfo 
 fufficiently and plainly declared our Principles and Judg- 
 ment, what Minifters and Magiftrates we would and 
 ihould have, and all the Land Ihould embrace, and what 
 Qualifications they ought to be endued with, that 
 mould govern and rule over thefe covenanted Lands : 
 Yet we think it our Duty at this Time, further to de- 
 clare again ft the late Tranfaclions and cruel Tragedies 
 that hath been acled in thefe Lands, and efpccjally in 
 Scotland, by the two young Pretenders Charles and 
 William, for ahho* like SampJon\ Foxes, their Heads 
 are afunder anent their different worldly Interefts, yet 
 their Tails are unite about the Dragon's Nee* ; they 
 belong to one Family, viz. Antichrift/s, they drive 
 one Defign, viz. bearing down and ruining the Work 
 of God in thefe Lands, and ahho' they be two Factions, 
 yet they fcrve but one gtand Maftcr, under whofe 
 Banner they afted all thefe Barbarities and Cruelties in 
 this Land of late. 
 
 Againft all which, we, as true Presbyterians ; own- 
 ing tlie whole Word of God to be our Rule, and all 
 the Parts and Pieces of our Reformation agreeable there- 
 unto, our Covenants and all ^he Tcftimonies given 
 tor the fame, 
 
 Declares, and by thefe Prefents. do teftify and de- 
 clare againft Charles pretended Prince of Wales, &c. 
 his invading our Land with feven Men and a few ^rms, 
 and their erecting his Standard, and gathering a Rout 
 of People about it, a promifcuous Multitude of igno- 
 rant, covetous, pilfering Crew ! without ever declaring 
 what Religion or Principle he held, nor would give fuf- 
 ficient Security for the true Religion, but only his bare 
 Word to fettle Prelacy in England, and a Toleration of 
 all Religions in Scotland; both which are linful, and con- 
 trary to the Word of God and our holy Covenants, 
 &c. and his going through the Land witfi his Mali£- 
 
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 n ants, to the. Terror of the Inhabitants, interrupting 
 nd hindering Commerce and Bufinefs. 
 
 idly, We teftify agafnft the proclaiming of his Fa* 
 rther to be King, by the Title of James the Eight, 
 when 'tis notourly known that he is an avowed Papifl > 
 and a Limb of Anlichrifl, abjured by us in our Cove- 
 nants, and being contrary to the Word of God, and 
 the righteous Laws of the Land, to admit, or fet up 
 an Idolater over us, which all Papifls are. 
 
 %d/y, We declare againft his gathering and uplifting 
 Taxes and Cedes through the Land, and applying the 
 fame to fupport his Invafion ! When the faid Taxes 
 belongs neither to him nor the Occupant upon the 
 Throne, but only to a true Gofpel Magiftracy, having 
 Scripture and Covenant-Qualifications, being a Terror 
 to Evil-doers, and a Praife to them that do well. 
 
 qlhly, We declare againft his feizing upon, and tak» 
 ing all the Arms he could find in Towns and Country, 
 and the Ammunition and other Implements of War ; 
 and therewith arming his Malignants, to put them in 
 a Capacity to diftrefs the Land, and bear down the 
 Work of God in the fame. 
 
 Sthly, We bear Teftimony againft his forcibly Sei- 
 zing upon, and arbitrarily commanding the Inhabitants 
 of the Land, to bring in their Horfes and Carriages for 
 his Service, to the great Lofs and Hinderance of poer 
 Labourers of the Ground, in their lawful Bufinefs ; on 
 the Diligence of which, depends theirs and their Fami- 
 lies Livelihood -, and any Interruption of that Kind, 
 muft be a very fignal Detriment to them. 
 
 6thly, Moreover, we declare againft all the unfound 
 Principles and fmful Practices of that malignant Party* 
 and the Enmity they have at the Tower of Godlinefs, 
 and their abufing and vilipending all the prime Inftru- 
 ments of the Reformation, both at Home and Abroad, 
 which is a fhrewd Sign, that they are very bad Protef- 
 tants ■, and that both their Principles and Defign hath 
 a Tendency to introduce Popery and arbritrary Power 
 again to thefe Lands : Alfo, we reckon it a great Vice 
 n Charles, his foolilh Pity and Lenity, in fparing 
 
 thefe 
 
' V, ) 
 
 thefe profane, blafphembus Red-coats, that Prdvidence 
 delivered into his Hand, when by putting them to 
 Death, this poor Land might have been eafed of the 
 heavy Burden of thefe Vermin of Hell ; and he would 
 have had fewer to have foughten againft him, and guard* 
 ing his People to the Gallows, the fatal Confequences 
 of which is found in the Epilogue, <bc. 
 
 In the next Place, we come to touch a little at the 
 other Faction of the maligna it Pany, that adheres to, 
 and fupports the prefent unhappy Government, no left 
 . Enemies to, Hinderers and Retarders of the Work of 
 Cod in the Land, and Supporters of the Kingdom of 
 Anticbr'tfti and the Pillars thereof, than the other Fac- 
 tion are. 
 
 i//, The Occupant upon the Throne to fecure him- 
 felf in his Ufurpation, and for Wordly-ends, hath join- 
 ed IlTue and Intereft with two of the moft Idolatrous 
 and Bloody Limbs of Antichrifl, that is upon the Face 
 of the Earth, (viz. ) the curfed Jezebel of Auftria, 
 and the little fierce Tyger of Savoy, to his everlafting 
 Ignominy, and the Difgrace of the Proteflanr Religion, 
 which wicked and finful Confederacy with Idolaters, is 
 contrary to the whole Word of G o d, and our facred 
 Covenants, and the Practice of the Godly in our pu- 
 teft Times; for which Caufe, We, as before, do de- 
 teft, abhore ; teftify and declare againll ail fuch Con* 
 ftderacics, and all other his Male-Adminiftrations. 
 
 idly, The Occupant, to fhew himfelf a real Step- 
 Father to thefe Lands, did auihorife his Son IVilliam, 
 pretended Duke of Cumberland, to invade Scotland 
 with a hellifh Crew of Red-coats, who came in as Ver- 
 min, in Shoals from Flanders and England ; as if the 
 Flood-gates of Hell had been opened, bellowing forth 
 their horrid Curfes and blafphcmou6 Oaths, and rob- 
 bing, Healing, and ruining all where ever they came, 
 fheltering all their Vilianies with this Nick-name, ye 
 are Rebels, tho' never fo innocent : When its notour 
 to all, that they arc the greatell Rebels againft God 
 and the Laws of the Land, and even Humanity its 
 fclf, that ever the Sun favr. Ail winch, wc tcllify a- 
 gainft, 6*". 3^» 
 
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 . ^aly, We refent the Madnefs of Profeflors of fere- 
 tal Denominations, who took fuch Vipers into their 
 Bofoms, by ^giving them Horfes in their Journeyings, 
 feeding them with Meat, Drink, and Spirits, and join- 
 ing in Arms with them to help to deitroy their own 
 Country : And all the Return thefe ungrateful Beaits 
 of Prey made, was fetting Fire to feveral Places in 
 Edinburgh (but was happily quenched) and they burnt 
 the Palace of Linlithgow out of Malice, and plunder- 
 ed even their Benefactors, as well as others, and brako 
 down Windows, and other Miichiefs, too long here 
 to relate. 
 
 4fhly> We refent the unjuft Invafion of our Land, 
 by a People of a Grange Language, and of as ftrange 
 Alpe&s, from Germany, whodefiled the Land with their 
 Whoredoms (being mad unclean Beads) and to com- 
 pleat the Mifery of the Land, they did grievoufly in- 
 fuit, beat, and male-treat many of the Inhabitants of 
 the Country where they palled ; -and as the Caterpillars 
 that did devour what the Locufts left, they carried 
 a vaft deal of Spo'l and Plunder with them into Ger- 
 many, to the impovenihing and ruining of the poor 
 Country, &c, 
 
 ■fthly, We teftify and declare againft the Progrefs and 
 Behaviour of the Red-coat Army under William their 
 furious Leader : For no fooner they paffed the River 
 of Forth, than they began to make Havock of all; 
 raging like fierce Tygers, plundering Houfes, and burn- 
 ing others, with the Barns and Barn-yards full of Vic- 
 tual, and -cleaning the Fields of Cattle, and rouping 
 them, with other Goods, on the Sabbath Day in the 
 Inch cf .Perth, as they -had their Plays and Div^rfions 
 on the other Inch, on the fame Day ; and rhe fame 
 Courfe of Deitruiflion and Devaluation they followed, 
 till they came to Aberdeen, -and there they fettled a 
 while, glutting themfeJvcs with the Spoil of the Coun- 
 try, cuvfing and blafpheming the Name ofGOD, mock- 
 ing and infulting their Reprovers, and horribly profa- 
 ning the Sabbath by Idlenefs and Gaming and other 
 Debaucheries, in contempt of GOD and Man, as if 
 
 they 
 
( *9 ) 
 
 they would defy Heaven, and mock at Hell as a 
 Scarcrow ; and all this Wickcdnefs was allowed and 
 committed by the Example of their Duke, who dis- 
 dained to be prcfent at any Sort of Worfhip, all the 
 Time he was in Scotland, but wrought all Manner of 
 Wickednefs with Grcedmefs, and with a high Hand. 
 
 6thly t We utterly abhore and declare againft all 
 the horrid Cruelty, Barbarity, and Inhumanity, com- 
 mitted after the Battle of Culhden y upon the wounded 
 and innocent by thefe Mongers of Men, the bioody 
 Red-coats, and their more than brutal Leaders, who, 
 in cokl Blood, moft barharouily murdered the wound- 
 ed, by running their Swords and Baynots in the 
 Hearts and Bellies of fome, and knocking the Brains 
 out of others with their Mufkets, and mitigating the 
 Red-coat's Strumpets and Servants to do the like ; and 
 mafTacred the unarmed By-ftanders, who came to look 
 on, and behold how the Matter went ; and befides, they 
 killed a ioo amongft the Planting, in the Parks of 
 CulloJen, the Day after the Action was over, in cold 
 Blood (like arrant Cowards) and then like incarnate 
 Devils, they raged through the Country, murdering 
 Women and Children, and old infirm Men in many 
 Piaces; and burning others in Barns, and in their 
 Houfcs, without DittincYion of Age or Sex : And like- 
 wife thefe bloody Burner* hanged up Numbers where- 
 ever they came, upon Trees and other Places, and 
 fome they hung by the Chin, to torment them with a 
 JiDgring Death, and tlrcn fporting themfelves at the 
 Agony and Mifery of the poor unfortunate Creatures, 
 and others they hung up by the Thumbs, and then 
 whipped them to Death in a moil cruel Manner, and 
 even fome little Children, who died foon after their 
 whipping. A Barbarity fcarcdy to be found amongfr. 
 Turks and Tartar s, brut only in the Spanijh Inquili'ti- 
 tion, from whom they feem to have copied after, and 
 imitated in all their Cruelties : Moreover, afar they 
 had fatiatc themfelves in their Baibarities upon their 
 Fellow-creatures, they fell upon their Goods and 
 Iloufes, burning and dcitrcying, and laying wafte 
 
 whyk 
 
( 3° ) 
 
 whole Country-fides, leaving no Suftenance, either for 
 Man or Beaft, but the Grafs of the Fields, whereby 
 Multitudes have perifhed with Famine and Want, and 
 many found dead in Caves and Huts, and in the Fields, 
 with Grafs in their Mouths ; and all thefe horrid Tra- 
 gedies were acted in this Land, by the fpecial Command 
 of their inhumane Duke, whom the flattering Time 
 ferving Minifters, blafphemoufly call a Saviour and De- 
 liverer •, but far rather, and more truly mould be termed 
 Abaddon, a Deftroyer, or a fecond Nero, fince his Ac- 
 tions are more agreeable to the latter than the former. 
 ytbfy, We refent the unnatural Babarity of thefe 
 wicked Scots , that amfted the cruel Duke and his fwear- 
 ing malicious Englijh to Butcher their Country-men, 
 and wafte and deftroy their Lands and Goods, when 
 they ought far rather to have helped to cleanfe the 
 Land of fuch Vermin, who have robbed and polluted 
 the fame with their blafphemous Errors and other Vi- 
 ces, and then to have entered England, and thereto 
 made Reprifals fumciently to indemnifie our felves for 
 all the Wrongs, Injuries, Injuftice, Robberies and 
 Spoils they have done, and made from Time to Time 
 upon poor Scotland, for fome Hundreds of Years toge- 
 ther, which would have brought Praife and Fame with 
 it, whereas the other Courfe and Practice brings Shame 
 Dilgrace and Ignominy, which cannot be ealily wiped 
 
 Sthfy, We alTert the free Independency of Scotland, 
 and refent the horrid Injury done to her by our here- 
 ditary Enemies the Englijh, in leading Scotfmen Prifon- 
 ers to England, (be their Crimes what they will) and 
 there, judging, condemning and Executing them as 
 they have done ever fincc the wicked and accurled U- 
 nion, when we have jufter and better Laws (if duely put 
 in Execution,) to try and punifli Criminals in our own 
 Land, than they have or can pretend to ; and it is no- 
 tourly known that thefe Englijh Judges acted rather 
 as raging Enemies in judging and giving Sentence, 
 than upright Men upon a Bench, and their admitting 
 and fuilaining viilanous wicked Perfons to be Witnef- 
 
 fes 
 
( 31 ) 
 
 m in their Trials, Men void of Truth or Honefty. be» 
 ing the very Scum and Garbage of Scotland, as their 
 Jury were picked out of Jail-birds and other Ver- 
 mine, the very Scum of England ; fo the poor Crea- 
 tures were cheated out of their Lives, and rather kil- 
 led as Scots, than as Criminals ; and altho' many of 
 them deferved Death for their other Crimes and Wick- 
 ednefs, and therefore juft in the fight of GOD ; yet it 
 being for none of thefe Crimes that they are put to 
 Death by them : Therefore it follows, that the fallc 
 "Witneflcs, the wicked Jury, and unjuft Judges, and «- 
 Jpecially the idolatrous Occupant upon the Throne, 
 are guilty of Murther and Bloodfhed, when he Heaven- 
 daringly prcfumes to pardon all Sorts of horrid and capi- 
 tal Crimes, and Treafon againft the Majefty of Heaven 
 and Earth, which no Mortal has Right to do, under the 
 Pain of Damnation, and yet puts Men to Death for 
 Tteafon againft himfelf, which he only and alone hath 
 Power to Pardon. 
 
 ythly, We teftify againft that fearful mocking of 
 GOD, in pretending to the making of Laws againft 
 Swearing and Curling, and yet puts none of them in 
 Execution, againft no Sort of Perfons whatfoever, who 
 are guilty in a mod grievous Manner; and in Particular, 
 their Armies, who furpafses all the Armies and People 
 of the Eartli in this Vice > and all by the Encourage- 
 ment and Example of their profane Duke, who is reck- 
 oned the molt bloody and biafphemous Swearer in Bri- 
 tain, a? he is the Chief and Pattern of all other horrible 
 Vices and Crimes and fo defcrves the higheft Pur.ifh- 
 ment, yet he and his moft wicked and profane Army, 
 not only efcapes Punifhment (which they richly de- 
 ferve) but arc carcfTed and rewarded, and encou- 
 raged by the profane State, and flattered by the 
 AnttchriJHan and Laodicean Churches, which can- 
 not fail, but to bring tiie tremenduous Wrath of a ho- 
 ly and a jealous GOD upon a Land ot iuch Abomina- 
 tions and "Wickednefs as this. 
 
 \cthly y Finally, we teftify and declare againft all 
 the Errors of Popery, Prtiacy and EraJHanifm, and the 
 
( V ) 
 
 SeBartes ; . and againfr. all their Male-practices, the 
 Wrong and Injuries that they have done to the Work,,' ' 
 Caufe, and People of GOD, both of old and of late, 1 
 in thefe Lands, and againft that wicked and Sectarian. 
 Error, fpread and propagated with violent Paflion, that 
 Dominion is founded upon mere Nature, exclufive of 
 Grace, and the Word and Law of GOD given by Grace 
 to the Church, and to Mankind, to be the Square Rule 
 and Rectitude, to erect and fet up his Ordinances in 
 Church and State. When the Inftitution as well as 
 the Qualifications of Magiftrates are {o clearly revealed 
 
 ,and fully exprefied therein. And it is certain, That 
 when the Fall of Adam commenced, if no Mediator had 
 been provided nor interveened, the Woi:ld and all Na- 
 ture now wholly corrupted, had been deftroyed, by Vir- 
 tue of the Threatning f )r rhe Breach of the firft Co- 
 venant, but the fecond Covenant taking Place, which 
 is of Grace in the Hand of CHRIST the Mediatot be- 
 tween GOD and Man : And therefore it follows, that 
 the World fubfiits and is fuftained by Grace, and is 
 governed by the Grace of his Providence ; and the 
 Angels that flood, are confirmed by Grace, and all that 
 we receive, or enjoy, or are promifed to be polfeiTed of 
 is of Grace; and therefore the holy Ordinance of Ma- 
 giflracy is founded on Grace (and not on corrupt Na- 
 ture) external Grace we mean (viz.) Scripture-quali- 
 fications plainly exprefTed in the Word of GOD, as 
 well as the Iniritution, as faidis : And it is llrange, that 
 the Mediator GOD Man, fhouid be appointed to judge 
 the World, and yet have no concern to rule and go- 
 vern the fame, as thefe Se Claries dream : But we 
 aver, with Prov. viii. Chap, and many other Scrip- 
 tures that our exalted Prince and Saviour is Head b- 
 ver all Principalities and Powers, as well as of the 
 Church : And is King of Nations, as well as King of 
 Saints, and is KING of Kings, and LQRD of Lords, 
 as well as King in Zion, and hath the Government u- 
 
 .fon his Shoulders, and all Pavers in Heaven 2nd in Earth 
 if committed to him, even becaufe he is, the Son of Man, 
 
 and- 
 
 
( « ) 
 
 end is COD equal with the FATHER in Power and 
 Glory. Now, to clofe up all, we would counfel and 
 advife you, both Parties of Malignants, to lay afide 
 your prejudice and Malice againft the Caufe and Peo- 
 ple of God ; and you old Malignants, lay afide your 
 Idol of Hereditary Right, which is the Ground and Ba- 
 fts of all Tyrrany. And you Revolution Malignants, 
 Jay aijde your Parliament Right, which is built upon, 
 Usurpation and Oppreflion ; and take on both of you 
 with Scripture-right, which only is permanent, and 
 will abide Teft and Trial in the Day of Accounts ; and 
 upon your Repentance and Reformation, we invite 
 you both to join lfiue a::d Intereft, Heart and Hand 
 with us, to erect and fet up, maintain and defend, a 
 pure, holy, Chriitian, Proteftant, Presbyterian Magi- 
 ftracy, who will be a Terror and Punifher of Evil-doers, 
 and a Supporter and Encourager of thofe that do well: 
 But if any, or both of you, fhould difdain or reject 
 this good Counfel (as we fear ye will) then be it 
 known unto you, that it will be Bitternefs in the lat- 
 ter End to you all, and your Enterprifes fhnjl not pro- 
 fper, fo as to bring Peace to thefe Lands, or to your 
 own Confcienccs in a Dying-hour ; and the Caufe and 
 Courfe that you both maintain and carry on, with fo 
 high a Hand at prefent, will be found to be fighting a- 
 gainft God, kicking againft: the Pricks, and running 
 upon the thick Bofles of his Buckler, which will certain* 
 ly procure the heavy Wrath of the evcrlafting GOD 
 upon your Perfons, Families, and Eftates, and that 
 fpeedily, except ye repent. 
 
 We (hall make one brief Obfervation more, which is 
 obvious to all that will fee, that fince the pretended 
 Deliverance from the Highland Army and the expected 
 Reformation, that was to follow thereupon, the quits 
 contrary appears : For all manner of Sin, Iniquity and 
 Abomination, are ten Times ericreafed and -on the 
 growing Hand ; the hcllifh, Pagan, Juggler Plays, are 
 fet up and frequented with more Impudence and Au- 
 dacity than ever, altho* near twelve Months before 
 ; they durlt not. one of them, be feen. here, and more 
 E contempt 
 
( 34 ) . 
 
 contempt of GOD, and blafpheming his holy Name, 
 more boafting and leaning to the Arm of Flefh, and 
 more numerous, open and bare-faced are Baudy-houfes 
 kept and haunted without controul or Punifhment than 
 ever before, and idle, Hellifh, drunken Clubs are fet 
 up and frequented even by fome Minifters, to theDif- 
 grace and Shame of their Office and Calling and juil 
 Contempt of their Perfons ; and more Security, Pride, 
 and Cruelty, Inhumanity, and Lying, and Flattering 
 than before ; and add to all thefe WickednetTes, befides 
 the robbing, Healing, plundering, butchering and blaf> 
 pheming of the Red-coat Army already mentioned, their 
 polluting and defiling the whole Land wherever they 
 come, with their abominableWhoredoms and other Un- 
 cleanneiTes, by not only enticing Maids and Matrons 
 to their curfed Luft, but committing by Force, horrible 
 Rapes upon many Women through the Land, and 
 fome dying among!! their Hands, and others expiring 
 foon after the Abufe they receive, and others lofe their 
 Wits and Senles for Grief and Horrour of the Injury 
 done to them -, and all this, and many more unparalel- 
 led Abominations are committed by thefe Monfters of 
 Men the Red-coats, and that without any Check, Con- 
 troul or Puniihment. Thefe are the Fruits of our 
 boafted of Deliverance, which cannot but fill up the 
 Meafure of our Cup, and provock an angry GOD to 
 haften his righteous Judgments, that whomever hear- 
 eth it, both his Ears (hall tingle. 
 
 /. I. 
 
 Let King JESUS reign, and let all his Enemies 
 be ftatterei. 
 
 A DECLA/ 
 
( 35 ) 
 
 A DECLARATION and TESTI- 
 
 MONY againft that fiirul Praftice 
 of the obfervation of birth Days, 
 for any Rulers, and efpeciaLy that 
 of the Uritijb Occupant, on GEto- 
 her 30th, l$c. 
 
 AMONGST the many great and grievous Sins 
 and Snares of the Day, and Defection of the 
 Land, that wicked and Antichriftian Practice, 
 the Obfervation of the "Nativity or Birth-Day of pro- 
 phane Ufurpers, the fo called Kings and Rulers of thcfe 
 Lands, are not the leaft ; a Practice fo void and deftitute 
 of all Scripture- Warrant, or imitable Exan pie a- 
 mongft well governed Kingdoms, or Common- wealths, 
 of pure and right conftitute Churches, that 'tis ilrange 
 that any profeiTing true Chiiftianity fhould be found 
 guilty of keeping up fo childifh, foolifh and finful a Cu- 
 flom, which is purely Pagan y both in the Invention 
 and Practice thereof, it being amongft their Idola- 
 trous Revels, and Service done to Bacchus, and blind 
 Obedience and fuperftitious Devotion paid to their He- 
 roes and Princes, whom they often Deified and uorfhip- 
 <d upon fuch Days, not only with civil, but religious 
 Adoration, which might be a Mean to deter any true 
 Chriftian from fuch icandalous and finful Courfes, flow- 
 ing from fo bad a Fountain and corrupt Original ; fee- 
 ing we are ltriclly forbidden in the Divine Word, to 
 imitate, in any Sort, the prophanc Heathens in their fin- 
 ful Culloms, Ways and Piactices : But if any (hould 
 be f 1 mad and void of all Shame and Mcdefty as to al- 
 lcdge for their Ground the Example of the Pagan E- 
 gyp t ion Pharaohs, the f.rlt Perfecutor of the Cliuuh, 
 or the Practice of Herod an Apoftate from the Church, 
 who murJcrcd the fore-runner of CHRIST on his 
 unhappy Birth-Day. I fay, if they fo do, they had 
 far better renounce the Mmc, as well they have 
 
 done 
 
( 16 ) 
 
 done the Practice of Chriftianity, and inroll frhemfelves 
 with the Pagan Idolaters, feeing they fo willingly and 
 Wickedly follow their Example and Pattern ; for other 
 warrantable Grounds they have none. 
 
 'Tis truely furpriling, that this Laodicean Church, 
 nor none of its Branches ifTuing out or fecceding from 
 them; hath not at any Time nor in any Way teltified 
 againft, nor fhewn their diuike at fo extravagant and an- 
 tifcriptural a Practice, but rather encourages it, concurs 
 with, Homologates and joins in the fame abominable iin- 
 fu.l Courfe and Cuftom, with the Loofe and prophage, 
 to their great Shame and Difgrace : Befides'the Way 
 and Manner of obferving thefe Birth-Days, is defe- 
 rable and ought to be abhored by all fober Chriilians, 
 as their fpending fo much precious Time in the Height 
 of Madnefs, revelling, and finful rejoicing for a Thing 
 of nought, Idlenefs, Drunkenefs, and all Manner of 
 Prophanity and Debauchries, as alfo the necdlefsWaflc 
 and Profufion of many of theNeceiTariesof Life, with 
 the unaccountable Superfluity of Lights and Illuminati- 
 ons upon Windows, fee. All which would be far bet- 
 ter beftowed upon charitable Ufes, when the Cry and 
 "NecefTity of the poor and needy are fo great and cla- 
 mant, he. But to have all that Hcathenilh Diftradti- 
 ons in the middle, or jufl at the Time of celebrating 
 the Holy Sacrament of the LORD 's Supper, is mofl 
 dreadful, and has fcarce a Parallel any where but in 
 Edinburgh ; and adds greatfy to the Guilt of the other 
 Abufes, and to them that commands, or allow it at 
 fuch a Time, <bc. 
 
 Now if all, or any Part of this extravagant Work; 
 were done, to put Refpect and Honour upon a good pi- 
 ous, and well deferving Prince, it might give fome Co-, 
 lour of Excufe for fuch a Practice, aitho' it would not 
 even then become a Duty, nor on that Account, ceafe 
 to be a Sin, feeing it wants the Divine Authority of a 
 Command and Precept, or the imitablc Example of any 
 of the Godly Kings and Rulers, either in Old or New 
 Teffoment for its Ground or Warrant ; but on the o- 
 
 th?r 
 
r 37 ) 
 
 ther Hand, to be guilty of fo much Madnefs, Diftrac 
 lion, Wade of Time and Means, foolifh Rejoicings, 
 and all the Wickednefs and Debaucheries that follow 
 thereupon, (as we hinted above) for a vile Perlbn, fo 
 ill deferving, as is the prcfent Britilh Occupant, k in- 
 deed molt (hocking, he being an implacable Enemy to 
 all true Religion, and a Mamtainer of a falfe, a Tyrant 
 in Principle an.! Practice in murdering his Subjects, whora 
 he ought to defend, by pardoning their Mutderers whom 
 he ought to execute without refpecl of Pcrfons ; Co the 
 Crime becomes his, and the Guilt thereof intailed upon 
 him and his Pofterity. Alfo his horrid Oppreflion by 
 heavy Taxes, to maintain a Crew of Penuoners, 
 Whores, Panders, and utelefs foreign Troops •, his 
 wicked Life of Whoredom, Gaming and Prophanation 
 of the Lord'j Day, in many Reipecls ; but efpecially 
 making and commanding the reading of bloody and 
 barbarous A els on the Holy Sabbath, an i lor a whole 
 Year together, in contempt >f all Religion and Mora- 
 lity itfelf, and ufurping the Supremacy of the Son of 
 Cod, that "is the alone King, Head and Lawgiver to 
 his Church, &c. And keeping the Iron Yoke of Pa- 
 tronages on the Church's Neck, and making other 
 wicked Laws, Oaths, and Snares to the Conlciences, 
 and executing them with Rigour ; as alfo his authori- 
 sing and patronUing the keeping and obferving his own 
 unhappy Birth day, who was born a Plague and a Scourge 
 to thefe Lands for our Sins : And all the Lovers of 
 Truth and Liberty, have Caufe to mourn and lament 
 on the 30M of Ott'Jjer, rather than to rejoice, ar our 
 Mifery, Calamity and the prefent and impendent 
 Judgments, &c. 
 
 Finally, Upon all which Grounds and Reafbns, and 
 many more that might be adduced, we as Men and 
 Chriftians, do teltify and declare agamtt. the keeping and 
 obferving the Nativity and Birth-Days of any Rulers 
 vrhatfoever, and efpecially that of the Occupant upon 
 the Throne of Britain, as being a prophage, fupcrfti- 
 tioas, wicked P >m, and the Caule 
 
 and Occallon of much Lojfncfs, Sin and Wickednefs, 
 
 as 
 
( 3» ) 
 
 as faid is. We likewife bear Teftimony againft all 
 the other Defections, Heaven daring Wickednefs, Pro- 
 phanity, Perjury and Blood, that thefe Lands are guil- 
 ty of, and lying under ; for which we may expetf fuch 
 tremenduous Judgments to be poured out for the fame, 
 that whofoever heareth it, both his Ears mall tingle. 
 
 J.H. 
 
 Let King JESUS Reign, and let all his Enemies be 
 Jeottered, Amen. 
 
 Edinburgh, ORober, 26"th, 1741. 
 
 An Account of Burning the 
 ABJURATION-OATH, and 
 fome ACTS authorifing and im* 
 pofing the Same, i§c. 
 
 FORASMUCH as this Oath, called the Oath of 
 Abjuration, doth virtually abjure the Solemn 
 League and Covenant, in their fwearing to main- 
 tain and admit of fuch only, as do oppofe the laid Co- 
 venant, and Work of Reformation, that thefe Lands are 
 obliged unto, in the fwearing to oppofe all, but fuch 
 as mail be fworn to extirpate without Refpecl of 
 Perfons : Alfo this wicked Oath, being inconfiltent 
 with the holy Scriptures, with our national Covenant, 
 with our pure Prespjterian Principles, and the laudable 
 Laws of this Land, betwixt 1638 and 1650, and yet, 
 is this Day taken by many perjured Men, that call 
 themfelves Presbyterian Miniiters. 
 
 We 
 
( 39 ) 
 
 We do therefore, in Tcftimony of our Abhorrence 
 •f the faid Oath, and in Contempt of the like Indig- 
 nity, done of Old to the Covenant in this bloody Ci- 
 ty, burn the faid Oath of Abjuration, with ihe Acts 
 enjoining the fame, and this we do in theTsamc of all, 
 who will own and approve the Fac~t, with the Rcaf>ns 
 expreiTed or implied herein, which all the Landlhouid 
 do m a more judicial and publick. Manner. 
 
 At the Crofs of Edinburgh this 28 Day of Oflibcr 
 17 12. 
 
 WHILE the faid Oath and Acts were burning 
 on the Point of a Dagger at the Crof9, and 
 going up the high Street, thefe Words fol- 
 owing were proclaimed with a loud Voice, viz. 
 
 Let King JESUS reign, and all his Enemies be 
 fcattered y no Abjur at ion-Oath, no Oath but the Cove- 
 nant's ; down with Popery, Prelacy and Eraftianifm, 
 end up with true Presbytery and the Covenants. 
 
 7. H. 
 
 A PREDICTION of the Emi- 
 nent and Famous Mr. ROBERT 
 MctfrjRVMimfiet of theG os- 
 
 PEL. 
 
 THUS he begin?, O Britain! O Scotland /bold 
 unto and bent to Backfliding, the Wrath of 
 God, and thy Woe feem to be upon the Wing! 
 And alas, I am afraid that this crowning and crimfon 
 Wickednefs : The LORD GOD Almighty ismakinga 
 Way to his Anger, and preparing the Nation for a Sa- 
 crifice, to expiate, in the Sight of the World, our PeT- 
 
 jury 
 
f 40 /> 
 
 jury, Defection and Heaven-daring Abominations and j 
 Provocations. Alas ? I am afraid that the Sword of> 3 
 the LORD, which is near to be drawn, will avenge the ! 
 Quarrel of his Covenant, that the Contributors, as 
 Weil as the ftated Party of Contrivers, Decreers and ' 
 cruel Executors of theie Decreers, may fall under the 
 Blow of the furbifhed Sword of the LORD GOD, and. 
 that Land of fuch Abominations may be iwept of 
 its Inhabitants, with the Befom of Deftnuftion, and-] 
 focked with the Blood of thofe, who inftead of con-. 
 tending for CHRIST, have by this Payment of Ceft af- 
 fociate with his Hated, his declared and implacable 
 Enemies, whofe rage is come up before him, 'and will 
 bring him down to take Revenge. Alas, my Fears, 
 my Fears are multiplied upon me, that this War (hall 
 not onjy at laft land in Britain, but that he hath been 
 all this while training up a Militia abroad, breeding, 
 them in Blood, and teaching them how to be fkilful to 
 deiiroy againif. the Time ; he gave orders to march 
 and put the flaming Sword in their Hand to be bathed 
 in the Blood of bacltfiiding Britain ; O i if our Turn- 
 ing unto him, that he might turn away from his Ficrce- 
 nef. of his Anger, might prevent that woful Day ; 
 but fince, initead of any turning unto him, we furpafs 
 the Deeds of the Heathen, and out do in Wickedntfs 
 all'that went before us, and proceed with a Petulancy 
 reaching unto Heaven from Evil to worfe -, I am afiaid 
 that all the Blocd-fhed fince the Sword was drawn 
 in the Nations about, all the facked Cities, all the 
 burnt Drops and Villages, ::! the wafied Countries, 
 all the Slain of the LORD by Sea and Land, ail the 
 Piilagings, Rapes Murders, Out-rages (which Rage it- 
 feif could hardly out-do) all the horrid and inhumane 
 Cruelties that have been committed during this bloody j 
 "War (wherein the Sea hath been dyed, and the Land J 
 as it were drowned with the Blood of the Slain) all the ■ 
 truculent and treacherous Murders of that Monller De- I 
 Aba in the Low Countries, a!l the incredible Cruelties 
 ^f the GuifeSi and the Blood ihed in the Maflacres of 
 
 France ; J 
 
( 41 ) 
 
 France ; all the Tortures that the People of the LORD 
 have been put to in the VaiHes of Ptedffiont by that 
 little fierce Tyger the Duke of Savoy •, all the Savages 
 and barbarous Butcheries of the Irifb MafTacres fhall 
 be forgotten, or feera Things not to be mentioned in 
 one Day, when ft hat (hall be done in Britain corncs to 
 be remembred. O Britain ! O Britain ! of all Nations 
 under the Cope of Heaven, mod ripe for the Sickle of 
 Vengeance, fhall this Throne of Iniquity which hath 
 framed fo many Milchlefs into Laws, and all that are 
 Complices, in this wicked Confpiracy who now arc 
 gathering themfelves together againft the Souk of the 
 Righteous, and condemning the innocent Blood ; be 
 able to fave its Subjects, when he comes to make 
 Inquifition for that Blood ? Or (hall the Sovereign's Cal • 
 Jing in all from 60 to 16, be able to fupport the 
 Throne. Alas ! in vain fhall they offer to draw up, 
 and draw the Sword to defend, when the LORD GOI> 
 of Hofts draws his Sword, to accomplilh upon them, the 
 Vengeance written and wrapped up in thefe Words, 
 He jball bring upm ihtth their own Iniquity, and 
 /hail cut them off in their own IVickednefs ; yea, the 
 h O R D our GOD Jball cut them off. And it fhall 
 come to pafs, in thct Day, efcape, who wiJl, profane 
 and profefTing Gentlemen and others, who in this have 
 complyed with the Rulers, fhall not efcape ; Then 
 fhall they pay for this Payment of the wicked Cefs ; 
 when the Storm of his Difpleafure fhall be obferved 
 to fall particularly upon their Houfe , Interclts and 
 Eflates, , Who can think upon the Wickedoefs with 
 juft Aggravations, and imagine the righteous LORD 
 will proportion his Judgment to the Hainoufnefs of 
 our Guilt, and his Revenges to the Rage whereby he 
 and his CHRIST hath been and are oppofed and tak« 
 other Meafures. 
 
 Thus far t he Great M'WARD. 
 
 F ADECLA* 
 
C 4* ) 
 
 A DECLARATION and TE- 
 STIMONY againft, and IN- 
 HIBITION of the Fall for 
 Hell, proclaimed and appointed 
 bv the facrilegious and malignant 
 Powers, to be c bferved on the 
 9 f h ot January 1740. by all the 
 PrelaticaJ and b raftian Synagogues 
 in 'Britain, &c. 
 
 IF ever there was a Time wherein the LORD cal- 
 led for fading and mourning, and girding with 
 Sackcioath, and lying low in the Dull before him, and 
 renting the Heart and not the Garment, and taking 
 Shame and Confufion of Face to ourfelves, for all our 
 Heaven-daring Abominations and Perjuries, this is the 
 Day and Time, a Day of Trial and treading down of the 
 Work of GOD, A Day of Perplexity from the LORD 
 of Ho/Is, in the Valley ofVifion, a Day of Famine of the 
 "Word of Life ; a Day when the Flood-gates are ope- 
 ned to all Errors and unparallelled Wickednefs, over- 
 flowing the whole Land, from one End to the other ; 
 fo that there is no Place clean. 
 
 In fuch a lamentable Cafe as this, 'tis high Time to 
 awake from Sleep and Security, and to humble our- 
 felves under his mighty Hand, and to take with us 
 Words, and return again to him from whom we have 
 departed, and againft whom we have finned, and to 
 fanclify a Faft, and call a folemn AiTembly, and ga- 
 ther the Elders, and all the Inhabitants of the Land 
 to weeping and wailing, and to tremble before him, 
 if Co be there may be Hope ; for the Day of the fierce 
 Anger of the Lord of Hofts approacheth, 'tis nigh 
 at Hand, <&c. 
 
 But 
 
( 43 ) 
 
 But it mult, be fuch a Fall as he hath chofen, and 
 will approve of and not to finite with the Fifl: of 
 Wickednefs, nor to pray for Succefs to one Limb of 
 Antichrift, over another Limb of the fame Body, the 
 Fruit and Effect: of which, would be a further Deftruo 
 tion of, and bearing down the Work and Caufe of 
 GOD in thefe Lands, and a fettling themfelvcs upon 
 their Lees, and fwelling in their Pride and Perjury, &c. 
 
 Since ever the glorious and exalted Mediator's Crown, 
 Rights and Royal Dignities, his Supremacy in, and 
 over his Church, which is his Body, were invaded and 
 incroached upon by his malignant Enemies, their 
 wanted not WitnefTes to, and Contenders for that great 
 and precious Truth of CHRIST', Kingly Office, and 
 the Church of Scotland (above all others) in a fpccial 
 Manner, had that fupereminent Truth bequeathed to 
 her, as her Legacy, and refilled unto Blood, ftriving 
 againft Sin, and loved not their Lives unto the Death, 
 that CHRIST'S Crown might flourifh upon h s Head, 
 according to the Gift of the Father; and ftrcnuoufly 
 withftood and oppofed all the facraligious Robbers, 
 and Ufurpers of his juft Power and Prerogative as King 
 in Zion, and undoubted and uncontrollable Law-giver 
 in his Church, and fpared neither Blood nor Trcafure, 
 that they might tranfmit and hand down to Portcrity, 
 that Truth and Teftimony to be embraced, maintain- 
 ed, and contended for till CHRIST'S fecond Commg 
 in Glory to judge the Quick and the Dead, &c . 
 
 But fince the unhappy Revolution, this unhappy 
 Church hath not only yielded to, and tamely fubmit- 
 ted to all the Invafions and Incroachmcnts made upon 
 the Royal Supremacy of JESUS CHRIST by the for- 
 mer and prefent malignant Ufurpers thereof, and the 
 holy Ordinance of Magistracy, but often-times hath 
 thruft it upon thefe Mifrulers, when they were neither 
 feekingnot deliring it of them, as appears in the pre- 
 fent Juncture anent this unhallowed Faft, as well as in 
 former Times on the like Occalions. 
 
 If thefe demented Men called Mioiftcrs, had the 
 
. ( 44 ) 
 
 leaf} .Senfe of Sin rnd Duty, or knew the right Quali- 
 ties of a Faft with the Jult and proper Caufes there- 
 of, and as the Exigencies of the Times, and the Height 
 and Hainoufnefs ofour Sins require, thefe and the like 
 Caufes of Wrath would be the Matter of their Hu- 
 miliation. 
 
 ifti The National Sins, or thefe of publick Judg- 
 ment and Profeflion. 
 
 ' id, Thefe of Life and Practice, either conniving 
 at Sin, or liking or allowing thereof. 
 
 Firft, Briefly, Thefe Sins are Caufes of deep Hu- 
 miliation ; the owning and maintaining of a falfe and 
 corrupt Magi fir acy, as the Fountain from whence all 
 our Woes and Miferies do proceed, and was the Caufe 
 and Occafion of the publick Resolutions of State and 
 Church, for bringing in the malignant Party to Places 
 of Power and Truft, the bitter Fruits of which Sin 
 remains to this Day. 
 
 idly, The overturning the Work of Reformation in, 
 flic Year 1660, and m oft wickedly afTuming the Su- 
 premacy of our Lord JESUS CHRIST, from whence 
 flowed all the Tyranny, Murders and Perfecutions of 
 the LORD'S People ; Breach of Covenants, Indulgence, 
 Toleration, and perjurious Oaths, everfivc of thefe 
 Covenants during the late tyrannical Reigns. 
 
 $dhy The Supremacy continued and exercifed at the 
 Revolution, in fettling the s hurch upon an Erajlian 
 Foundation, according to the Inclinations of a corrupt 
 People, and the wicked Formula, together with the 
 Oaths of allegiance, and A flu rai.ee, the black Oath of 
 ALjuiatic n, the curfed Union with idolatrous EnglanJ % 
 with its Train of Evils and Miferies, with all the mock 
 Fafts fince the Revolution, with other horrid Crimes, 
 and Prov. cations too long here to relate ; are Matters 
 of GrieC Lamentation, Mourning and Wo. 
 
 Secondly, The Sins of 1 ife and Praelice are, 
 
 1//, .jiihe'ijm, either denying of all, or fome one of 
 the Perfons of the bleffed Trinity, or living as if 
 there were no GOD to judge and punilh them. 
 
 idly t 
 
. ( . 45. ) 
 
 lily. Idolatry, in fetting up, and conniving at Mafs- 
 Houfes, and Stage-plays, and other falfe Worihip, con- 
 trary to the Word of GOD, and to the Letter of 
 their own Law. 
 
 gi/}\ Unheard of curfing and fwearing amongft all 
 Ranks, for which the Land mourneth, and the plea- 
 fant Places thereof will be defolate. 
 
 <\thl)\ Notorious Sabbath-breaking, by Idlenefs, 
 Dmnkennefs, and Gaming, and other finful Ways, 
 whereby a jealous GOD is provoked to fierce Wrath, 
 and will in due Time pour it out upon the Land of 
 fuch Abominations as thefe. 
 
 ftlly 4 Rebellion againft GOD and the holy Ordi- 
 nance of Magidracy and Mir.iftry, taking the Shadow 
 for the Subftance, and yielding an implicitc Faith, and 
 blind Obedience to the prefent Occupants in State and 
 Church. 
 
 6thly i Not only the innocent Blood of the Lord's 
 People of old, not yet purged away, by the Blood of 
 them that fhed it - x but alio many Murders committed 
 in all Corners of the Land, by the bloody Military 
 and others, and efpecially the MalTacre in Edinburgh, 
 in C736, by wicked PorJeow, the Cry of which inno- 
 cent Blood reacheth into Heaven, calling for Venge- 
 ance upon the Authors and Abettors thereof. 
 
 "jthly % The almofl univerfal Sin of Adultery and 
 other UncleannclTes, from the Throne to the Dung- 
 hill, even many Min'ulcrs and Elders not accepted. 
 
 Sth/y, Theft and Robbery, Opprcflion and grinding 
 the Faces of the Poor, together with heavy Taxes to 
 maintain a Crew of Villains and Panders for HelL 
 
 oM/y, Monft roils lying, defrauding, falfe fwearing 
 i;i Witnefs-bearing, keeping back the Wages of the 
 Hireling, and many other Sins of the like Nature are 
 Caufes of heavy Lamentation. 
 
 \otbl)\ The Sin of Covetoufnefs which is Idolatry, 
 and Hipocrify, Formality, Sclffceking, Pride and 
 deep Security under the Wrath- like Difpcnfation of 
 the Day : To which may be added, the horrid Jug- 
 
glirrg, and abfurd Principles, and pernicious Practices of 
 the Seceding falfe Brethren, and their mad and blind 
 Loyalty to the blacked and bloodied Throne upon 
 the Earth. Thefeand many other hainous Sin?, and 
 Tranfgrefllons are weighty Caufes of Farting and Hu- 
 miliation ; yet all, or mod of thefe Grounds and Cau- 
 ses ate delignedly omited in their unhallowed and mock 
 Fad, and the main and only Caufe in their Eradian 
 Fall is, for Succefs to the mod wicked and flagitious 
 Army and Navy that's within the whole Univerfe, 
 and this War is not againd Spain as it is Idolatrous, 
 (which would be a juft Caufe of War,) no, for Spain 
 was their good Alley before, 'tis only againd Spain for 
 didurbing their Trade, (which is their God) and for 
 chaftizing the Robbers of their Plantations, THERE- 
 FORE the War on fuch Grounds is unlawful and unne- 
 ceilary, and To confequently their Fad on that Ac- 
 count with its Caufes are (6 too, and therefore will 
 procure a Curfe indead of a BleiTing upon their Coun- 
 cils and Armies by Sea and Land, for GOD will not 
 t>e mocked, but will be avenged on all them that take 
 his Name in vain. 
 
 To conclude feeing, this wicked and finful Fad is des- 
 titute of all the good Qualities of a true, lawful and ne- 
 ceflary Fad, and comes direclly from the corrupt Foun- 
 tain of the malignant Court, and the Antichridian 
 Knights of the Black-Order, the Bidiops of England, 
 by virtue of the ufurped Supremacy, and their gaudy 
 Manner of proclaiming the fame by found of Trum- 
 pet, and it having none of the weighty Caufes of Fad- 
 ing for which the LORD contends this Day with tbefe 
 Lands, as the Matter thereof, but duffed \\ith the falfe 
 frivolous and foolifh Caufes, being neither weighty nor 
 worthy, and which will rather provoke than appeafe 
 an angry GOD, the ©bfervation whereof is a Caufe 
 of Fading and Humiliation. 
 
 Upon all which Gronnds and Reafbns, and many 
 more that might be added, we utterly renounce and 
 dilclaim this Fad on January c?th, as above, and Tef- 
 
 tiiies 
 
( 47 ) 
 
 (lilies and declares againft: the fame, as a finful and 
 Wrath- procuring Faft : Yea, we inhibite and difcharge 
 all the Inhabitants of thcfc three Lands from the Ob- 
 fervation thereof, as they would avoid the Difpleafure 
 of Almighty GOD, and anfwer the Contrair at their 
 utmoft Peril. 
 
 Given at the Capital, on January 9th 1740, by the 
 Lovers and Friends of Truth and Liberty. 
 
 On the Second of January, this Declaration was 
 publifhed on the Crofs of Edinburgh, and on the 5-th 
 thereof on the High-Church there, and the Pier of 
 Leitb. 
 
 J. H. 
 
 P. S, As we have at diverfe Times, and at feve- 
 fal Occafions, teftificd and declared againft all the 
 Heaven-daring Wickedneffes, Defections and Abomi- 
 nations that thefe Lands are guilty of, and continuing 
 in : And efpecially againft their horrible Conjuncti- 
 on, finful Confederacy, and helliih AiTociation : With 
 the avowed, declared, and implacable Enemies of our 
 Lord JESUS CHRIST, and his righteous Caufe, 
 (viz) The abominable, bloody, ravenous, tearing and 
 devouring German Eagle, or the Houfe of Aujlria ; 
 and the violent, virulent, rampant and deftroying 
 Tyger of Savoy. And now, to nil up their Meafure, 
 and to compleat their Wickedncfc, they have made a 
 finful, lhameful, and fcandalous Peace with France and 
 Spain, other two raging bloody Vultures, and Limbs 
 of Antichrifl j and as Pledges oi'thcir Faith to keep 
 and maintain that dcteftablc and deftructive Peace, they 
 have fent Hoftages in a fhameful Manner to a faithlcfs 
 Nation, who never keeped Faith to GOD nor Man \ 
 
 and 
 
( 4*. ) 
 
 and they, a* the Head, difdains to fend any to Bri- 
 tain, who is now become the Tail, and a Laughing-ilock 
 to all the Nations round about for Perfidy, <bc. 
 
 And to crown all, as if all the Wade of Flood by 
 Sea and Land, and the Subftance of the Nation fpent 
 to maintain an ufelefs, finful and deftroying War, and 
 to bribe and buy a fcandalous Peace, were not enough 
 to fill up the Gup of their Iniquity j but they mult, h\ 
 a fearful Manner, mock GOD, by appointing and pro- 
 claiming a Thanksgiving Day for that wicked and 
 {hameful Peace with the Slaves andVaiTals of Satan and 
 • the Pbpe y <bc 
 
 So we, as Men andChriflians, do detelt, abhore,- tcfli-* 
 fy and declare againil the Obfervation of that^ finful and 
 jnockThankfgiving on April 25-th, 1749, for the black 
 and difmal Grounds and Ends 'tis appointed for, and 
 the corrupt Fountain it flows from, (viz.) the 
 wickedly ufurped Supremacy : And as often before, 
 againft all Sorts of Defections, Invaflons and Incroach- 
 ments made upon the Crown and dignity of our Lord 
 JESUS CHRIST, who is King and Head ot his 
 Church, and Rules and Governs the World as Medi- 
 ator, and will judge and condemn his Enemies, and 
 will break them that will not bow to his Scepter, A- 
 wen. 
 
 l^et King. JE SU S Reign, and all his Enemies be 
 fc altered, 
 
 J n H «? 
 
 FINIS, 
 
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