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THE INSTRUMENT; OR, VVRITING OF ASSOCIATION: That the True Proteſtants OF ENGLAND Entred Into, IN THE REIGN OF Queen Elizabeth.
WHILE Her Life, and the Proteſtant Religion, by Helliſh Po
Uſefully Accommodated to our preſent Day.
Printed in the Year, 1679.
FOraſmuch as Almighty God hath Ordained Kings, Queens, and Princes, to have Dominion and Rule over all their Subjects, and to preſerve them in the Poſſeſſion and Obſervation of the true Chriſtian Religion, according to his holy Word and CommandLove, Fear, and Obey their Soveraign Princes, being Kings or Queens, to the utmoſt of their power; at all times to withſtand, purſue, and ſuppreſs all manner of Perſons that ſhall by any means intend and attempt any thing dangerous or hurtful to the Honour, States, or Perſons of their Soveraigns.
Therefore we whoſe Names are or ſhall be ſubſcribed to this Writing, being Natural Born Subjects of this Realm of England, and having ſo GraciElizabeth, by the Ordinance of God, our moſt rightful Queen, Reigning over us theſe many Years with great felicity, to our ineſtimable Comfort: And finding lately by divers Depoſitions, Confeſſions, and ſundry Advertiſements out of Foreign Parts from credible Perſons, well known to her Majeſties Council and to divers others; That for the furtherance and advancement of ſome pretended Title to the Crown, it hath been manifeſted that the Life of out Gracious Soveraign Lady Queen Elizabeth, hath been moſt dangerouſly to the peril of her Perſon; if Almighty God her perpetual Defender, of his mercy had not revealed and withſtood the ſame. By whoſe Life, we and all other her Majeſties True and Loyal Subjects, do enjoy an ineſtimable benefit of peace in this Land; do for the Reaſons and Cauſes before at edged, not only acknowledge our ſelves moſt juſtly bound with out Lives and Goods for her defence, in her ſafety, to perſecute, ſuppreſs, and with
Do declare, and by this Writing make manifeſt our bounden Duties to our ſaid Soveraign Lady for her ſafety. And to that end, We, and every of us, Firſt Calling to Witneſs the Name of Almighty God, do Voluntarily and moſt Willingly bind our ſelves, every one of us to the other, joyntly and ſeverally in the Band of one Firm and Loyal Society. And do hereby Vow and Promiſe by the MAJESTY OF ALMIGHTY GOD, That with our whole Powers, Bodies, Lives, and Goods,
and with our Children and Servants, We, and every of us, will faithfully ſerve and humbly obey our ſaid Soveraign Lady Queen Elizabeth, againſt all States, Dignities, and Earthly Powers whatſoever; and will as well with our joynt and particular Forces during our Lives, withſtand, offend, and purſue, as well by force of Arms, as by all other means of Revenge; all manner of Perſons of what ſtate ſoever they ſhall be, and their Abettors, that ſhall attempt any Act. Council, or Conſent to any thing that ſhall tend to the harm of her Majeſties Royal Perſon, and will never deſiſt from all manner of forcible purſuit againſt ſuch Perſons, to the utter Extermination of them, their Counſellors, Aiders, and Abettors.
And if any ſuch wicked Attempt againſt her moſt Royal Perſon, ſhall be taken in hand or procured, whereby any that have, may, or ſhall pretend Title to come to this Crown, by the untimely death of her Majeſty ſo wickedly procured (which God for his Mercy ſake forbid) may be avenged; We do not only bind our ſelves both joyntly and ſeverally never to Allow, Accept, or Favour any ſuch pretended Succeſſor, by whom, or for whom any ſuch deteſtable Act ſhall be Attempted or Committed, as unworthy of all Government in any Chriſtian Realm or Civil State.
But do alſo further Vow and Proteſt as we are moſt bound, and that in the Preſence of the Eternal and Everlaſting God, to Proſecute ſuch Per
And to the better Corroboration of this our Loyal Band and Aſſociation, We do alſo Teſtifie by this Writing, that we do Confirm the Contents hereof by our Oaths corporally taken upon the Holy Evangeliſt, with this expreſs Condition; that no one of us ſhall for any reſpect of Perſons or Cauſes, or for Fear or Reward, ſeparate our ſelves from this ASSOCIATION, or fail in the proſecution thereof, during our Lives, upon pain of being by the reſt of us proſecuted, and ſuppreſt as perjur'd Perſons, and as publick Enemies to God, our Queen, and to our Native Country. To which puniſhment and pains we do voluntarily ſubmit our ſelves, and every of us, without benefit of any colour and pretence.