A true and exact copy of a treasonable and bloody-paper called the Fanaticks new-covenant which was taken from Mr. Donald Cargill at Queens-Ferry the third day of June, anno Dom. 1680 one of their field-preachers, a declared rebel and traitor ; together with their execrable declaration published at the Cross of Sanquhair upon the twenty two day of the said month of June after a solemn procession and singing of Psalms by Cameron the notorious ring-leader of and preacher at their field-conventicles, accompanied with twenty of that wretched crew.

A true and exact copy of a treasonable and bloody-paper called the Fanaticks new-covenant which was taken from Mr. Donald Cargill at Queens-Ferry the third day of June, anno Dom. 1680 one of their field-preachers, a declared rebel and traitor ; together with their execrable declaration published at the Cross of Sanquhair upon the twenty two day of the said month of June after a solemn procession and singing of Psalms by Cameron the notorious ring-leader of and preacher at their field-conventicles, accompanied with twenty of that wretched crew.

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A True and Exact Copy of a Treaſonable Paper, called, The Fanaticks New-Covenant.

THE DECLARATION and TESTIMONY OF THE True-Presbyterian, Anti-prelatick, AND ANTI-ERASTIAN, PERSECUTED-PARTY IN SCOTLAND.

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A True and Exact COPY OF A TREASONABLE and BLOODY-PAPER, CALLED, THE Fanaticks New-Covenant: Which was taken from Mr. Donald Cargill at Queens-Ferry, the third day of June, Anno Dom [...]: 1680.

One of their FIELD-PREACHERS, a declared Rebel and Traitor.

TOGETHER With their Execrable DECLARATION, publiſhed at the Croſs of Sanquhair, upon the Twenty two day of the ſaid Month of June; After a Solemn Proceſſion, and Singing of Pſalms, by Cameron, the Notorious Ring-Leader of, and Preacher at, their Field-Conventicles, accompanied with Twenty of that Wretched Crew.

Printed and Publiſhed by order of His Majeſties Privy Council, in obedience to His Majeſties Commands, in His Letter dated at Windſor-Caſtle, the 5th. day of July, 1680.

EDINBƲRGH, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderſon, Printer to His moſt Sacred MAJESTY, Anno Domini. 1680.

A True and Exact Copy of a Treaſonable Paper, called, The Fanaticks New-Covenant.

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WE Under-Subſcribers, for our ſelves, and all that joyn with us, and adhere to us, being put to it by God, our Conſciences, and Men; Do bind our Souls with a ſolemn and ſacred Bond, leſt on the one hand weſhould be carried away with the ſtream of the Apoſtacy and defection of the Church in this time, and on the other hand, leſt we ſhould (not being ſo engaged) evaniſh in Vanity, and be without a right rule in good Deſigns: We have judged it our duty again to covenant with God, and one another, and to publiſh this DECLARATION to the World of our Purpoſes, that Men may know our moſt inward-thoughts, the rules that we walk by, and the outmoſt ends that we have before our eyes for this intent, that theſe who are lovers of God, zealous of His reigning in Glory, and deſirous of Reformation, and the propagation of His Kingdom, may have occaſion no more to be jealous of our Intentions, and others may have no ground to load us with odious and foul Aſperſions; but, that all knowing the truth of us, if they ſhall ſtrive againſt us, and Truth with us, ſhall do it without excuſe, and againſt conviction; and that theſe who ſhall joyn with us, may do it upon ſolid and undoubted-grounds, and both they and we may expect Grace from Him, Faithfully to perſevere, and happily to be ſucceſsful in ſo good Purpoſes.

It is true, We are not ignorant of the great unmindfulneſs, failing, counteracting, and mocking that has been in our former Vows and Covenants with God, and of the great Judgments that hath, and are like to follow ſuch impious and ſinful dealing with God in ſuch weighty Matters, (for which we both ought and deſire to be humbled before Him,) which cannot but make us with great trembling of Heart enter into new ones, knowing both our own weakneſs and readineſs to relapſe, and the great hazard and danger of ſuch relapſes; Yet, the deſire of recovering and preſerving a remnant, and the conviction of this, as the moſt convenient mean, the zeal to Gods glory, and Chriſts reigning, (which is the higheſt and moſt acceptable duty Man can perform to God,) hoping for His Mercies, (who is witneſs to the integrity of our Hearts and rightneſs of our Intentions,) that he will inſtruct, direct, accept, and proſper us, we go forward, declaring, that nothing elſe but what we here expreſs is our Deſign.

[Page] I. We covenant and ſwear, that we take the only true and living God, Father, Son, and Holy Ghoſt, to be our God, and betakes our ſelves to the Merits and Righteouſneſs of His Son, as the alone Righteouſneſs that can juſtify us before God; and that we take His Scriptures and Word to be the Object of our Faith, and rule of our Converſation in all things; and that we ſhall give up our ſelves to Him, to be renewed, inſtructed, and in all things ruled by His Spirit, according to that Word; and ſhall earneſtly endeavour by His Grace, to render to Him that Love, Worſhip, and Obedience, that His Word requires, and His Goodneſs engages us to.

II. That we ſhall to the outmoſt of our Power, advance the Kingdom of Chriſt eſtabliſh'd throughout the Land, (if at any time hereafter God ſhall give us this opportunity) Righteouſneſs and the true reformed Religion, in the truth of its Doctrine, in the purity and power of its Worſhip and Ordinances, and in its Diſcipline and Government, and free the Church of God from the thraldom, tyranny, incroachment, and corruption of Prelacy on the one hand, and Eraſtianiſm on the other. And that we ſhall to our Power, relieve the Church and Subjects of this Kingdom, (we being called thereto, by His giving of us Power, Power being Gods-Call to do good,) of that Oppreſſion that hath been exerciſed upon their Conſciences, civil Rights and Liberties, that Men may ſerve Him holily, without fear, and poſſeſs their civil Rights in quietneſs, without diſturbance.

III. That we ſhall endeavour to our outmoſt, the extirpation of the kingdom of Darkneſs, and whatſoever is contrair to the kingdom of Chriſt, and eſpecially Idolatry, and Popery in all the Articles of it, as we are bound in our National Covenant; and Superſtition, Will-worſhip, and Prelacy, with its Hierarchy, as we are bound in our Solemn League and Covenant; And that we ſhall with the ſame ſincerity, endeavour (God giving us aſſiſtance) the overthrow of that Power that hath eſtabliſhed that Prelacy and Eraſtianiſm over the Church, and exerciſes ſuch a luſtful and arbitrary Tyranny over the Subjects, ſeeking again to introduce Idolatry and Superſtition in theſe Lands, contrair to our Covenants: And in a word, that we ſhall endeavour the extirpation of all the works of Darkneſs, and the Relicts of Idolatry and Superſtition, (which are both much enlarged and revived in our times,) and execute righteous Judgment impartially (according to the Word of God, and degree of Wickedneſs) upon the Committeis of theſe things, but eſpecially Blaſphemy, Idolatry, Atheiſm, Sorcery, Perjury, Uncleanneſs, profanation of the Lords-day, Oppreſſion and Malignancy, that being thus zealous for God, he may delight to dwell among us.

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Seriouſly conſidering, that the hand of our Kings has been againſt the Throne of the Lord, and that now for a long time, the ſucceſſion of our Kings, and the moſt part of our Rulers with him, hath been againſt the purity and power of Religion and Godlineſs, and freedom of the Church of God, and hath degenerate from the vertue and good Government of their Predeceſſors into Tyranny, and hath of late ſo manifeſtly rejected God, His Service and Reformation, as a Slavery, as they themſelves call it in their publick Papers, (eſpecially in theſe laſt Letters to the King, and Duke of Lauderdale) diſclaiming their Covenant with God, and blaſphemouſly inacting [Page] it to be burnt by the hand of a Hang-man, governed contrary to all right Laws divine and humane, exerciſed ſuch tyranny and arbitrary Government, oppreſt men in their Conſciences and Civil Rights, uſed free Subjects (chriſtian and reaſonable men) with leſs diſcretion and juſtice then their beaſts; and ſo not only fruſtrate the great end of Government, (which is, that men may live godly, holily and peaceably under them, and might be maintained in their Rights and Liberties from injury and wrong) but hath alſo walked contrary to it, So that it can no more be called a Government, but a luſtful Rage, exerciſed with as little right reaſon, and with more cruelty then in Beaſts, and they themſelves can be no more called Governours, but publick Graſſators, and publick Judgments, which all Men ought as earneſtly to labour to be free of, as of Sword, Famine, or Peſtilence raging amongſt us; and beſides, hath ſtopped (inſtead of puniſhing) the courſe of Law and Juſtice againſt Idolaters, Blaſphemers, Atheiſts, Murderers, Inceſtuous and Adulterous, and other Malefactors; and inſtead of rewarding the Good, hath made Butcheries and Murthers on the Lords People, ſold them as Slaves, Impriſoned, Forfaulted, Baniſhed and Fined them, upon no other account, but for maintaining the Lords Right to rule Conſciences, againſt the uſurpations of Men, for fulfilling their Vows, and repelling unjuſt Violence, which innocent Nature allows to all; of all which, and moe particulars, we can give (we ſpeak as before God) innumerable and ſure Inſtances: Neither can it be thought that there is hope of their returning from theſe Courſes, having ſo often ſhewed their Natures and Enmities againſt God and all Righteouſneſs, and ſo often declared and renewed their Purpoſes and Promiſes of perſevering in theſe Courſes. And, ſuppoſe they ſhould diſſemble a Repentance of theſe Evils, and profeſs to return to better Courſes, being put to Straits, or for their own Ends, (for upon no other account can we reaſonably expect it;) and though it might be thought, that there might be Pardon for what is done, (which we cannot yet ſee to be, without the violation of the Law of God, and a great guiltineſs on the Land, from which guiltineſs the Land can never be free, but by executing of Gods righteous Judgments upon them for omitting of ſo greatly deſerved, and ſo neceſſarily requiſite a Juſtice;) yet they cannot be believed, after they have violated all Tyes that Humane Wiſdom can deviſe to bind Men; and beſide, there will be ſomething of folly found, to think to bind a King that pretends to abſoluteneſs: and our Fathers, or rather our ſelves, at firſt judged it not warrantable to receive Him, without conſenting to, and ſwearing of the Covenant: And if ſo, the renouncing and diſclaiming thereof, we ought at preſent to judge to be a juſt and reaſonable ground of rejecting Him upon theſe Grounds, being aſſured of Gods approbation, and Mens, whoſe Hearts are not utterly byaſſed, and their Conſciences altogether corrupted, and knowing aſſuredly, that the upholding of ſuch, is to uphold Men, to bear down Chriſts Kingdom, and to uphold Sattans, and the depriving of Men of right Government and good Governours, to the ruining of Religion, and undoing of Humane Society. We then ſeeing the innumerable Sins and Snares that are in giving obedience to their Acts, on the other hand, ſeeing if we ſhall acknowledge their Authority, and refuſe obedience to their ſinful Commands, the endleſs Miſeries that will follow, and ſiding with God (who we hope will accept and help us to a liberation from their Tyranny) againſt his ſtated and declared Enemies; do reject that King, and theſe aſſociate with Him, from being our [Page] Rulers, becauſe ſtanding in the way of our Right, free and peaceable ſerving of God, propagating His Kingdom and Reformation, and overthrowing Satans kingdom, according to our Covenant; And declares them henceforth to be no lawful Rulers, as they have declared us to be no lawful Subjects, upon a ground far leſs warrantable, as Men unbyaſſed may ſee; and that after this, we neither owe, nor ſhall yield any willing obedience to them, but ſhall rather ſuffer the outmoſt of their Cruelties and Injuſtice, until God ſhall plead our Cauſe, and that upon theſe Accounts; becauſe, they have altered and deſtroyed the Lords eſtabliſhed Religion, overturned the fundamental and eſtabliſh'd Laws of the Kingdom, taken altogether away Chriſts Church and Government, and changed the Civil Government of this Land (which was by King and free Parliaments) into Tyranny, where none are aſſociat to be partakers of the Government, but only thoſe who will be found by Juſtice to be guilty of Criminals, and all others excluded, even thoſe who by the Laws of the Land by Birth had a right to, and a ſhare in that Government, and that only, becauſe not of the ſame guiltineſs and miſchievous Purpoſes with themſelves: And alſo, all free elections of Commiſſioners for Parliaments, and Officers for Government, are made void by their making thoſe the Qualifications of admiſſion to theſe Places, which by the Word of God, and the Laws of this Land, were the cauſe of their excluſion before, ſo that none can look upon us, or judge us bound in Alledgeance to them, unleſs they ſay alſo we are bound in Alledgeance to Devils, they being his Vicegerents, and not Gods.

V. We then being made free, by God and their own doings, He giving the Law, and they giving the Tranſgreſſion of that Law, which is the cauſe that we are looſed now from all Obligations, both Divine and Civil to them, and knowing that no Society of Men that hath corruption in them, (which alwayes is ready to beget diſorders and do injuries, unleſs reſtrained and puniſhed by Laws and Government) can be without Laws and Government, and withal deſiring to be governed in the beſt way that is leaſt lyable to Inconveniencies and Tyranny: We do declare, that we ſhall ſet up over our ſelves, and over all that God ſhall give us Power, Government, and Governours, according to the Word of God, and eſpecially according to that word, Exod. 18. v. 21. Moreover, thou ſhalt provide out of all the People, able Men, ſuch as fear God, men of Truth, hating G [...]vetouſneſs; and that we ſhall no more commit the Government of our ſelves, and the making of Laws for us, to any one ſingle Perſon, and lineal Succeſſor, we not being tied as the Jews were by God, to one Family, Government not being an Inheritance, but an Office, which muſt be ſquared, not to the intereſt and luſt of a Man, but to the good of the Commonwealth, and this kind of Government by a ſingle Perſon, &c. being moſt liable to Inconveniencies, (as ſad and long experience may now teach us,) and apteſt to degenerate into Tyranny. Moreover, we declare that theſe Men whom we ſhall ſet over us, ſhall be engaged to govern us principally by that Civil or Judicial Law given by God to His People of Iſrael, eſpecially in matters of Life and Death, and in all other things alſo, ſo far as they teach, excepting only that Law, (viz. anent Slaves,) which does not agree with that Chriſtian Liberty eſtabliſhed in all Chriſtendom, (only violated by our Tyrants, and ſome others of late,) and that of Divorces and Poligamy; the one being not a Law, but a Permiſſion granted upon the account of the hardneſs of their Hearts, [Page] the other being a ſinful cuſtom contrair to the firſt inſtitution of Marriage, crept in into the Church: We know that Men of Malignant and perverſe Spirits, that has not a higher God than a wicked King, which ſuits only with their luſtful licentiouſneſs, and it may be others with them that ſeemed to be of better Principles, will raiſe an ignorant clamour upon this, that it is a Fifth-Monarchy, and we Fifth-Monarchy-men, and will labour to amuſe the People with ſtrange terms, and put odious names on good things to make them hateful, as their way is; but if this be their Fifth-Monarchy, we both are, and ought to be ſuch, and that according to His Word.

VI. It being the work of the Miniſters of the Goſpel, to preach, propagate, and defend the Kingdom of God, and to preſerve the Doctrine, Worſhip, Diſcipline, Government, Liberties and Priviledges of the ſame, from all corruptions and incroachments of Rulers, and all others. And ſeing, that the Miniſters of the Church of Scotland, (at leaſt the greateſt part of them before) not only were defective in preaching and teſtifying againſt the Acts of theſe Rulers, for overthrowing Religion and Reformation, abjuring our Covenant made with God, eſtabliſhing a Government in the Church, which that King calls His own Government, (and ſo not Gods,) contrair to our Covenant; Againſt inacting of that blaſpemous (ſo Calvin calls that Supremacy of Henry the Eight, upon which this Prerogative is founded, and from which it is derived, and is no leſs, if not more injurious to Chriſt, and inſlaving to His Church,) and ſacrilegious Prerogative given to a King over the Church of God, and againſt the other Acts and Incroachments of His Church, and hindered others alſo who were willing, and would have teſtified againſt them, and cenſured ſome that did it, (for which, together with the other Cauſes in their truſt and adminiſtration, we may ſay, God hath left them to do worſe things;) but alſo hath voted in that Meeting, (which they are pleaſed to call an Aſſembly of Miniſters, but how juſtly, let Men judge,) an acceptation of that Liberty, founded upon, and given by vertue of that blaſphemouſly arrogated and uſurped Power; and hath appeared before their Courts to accept of that Liberty, and to be enacted and authorized there as Miniſters, and ſo hath willingly (for this is an elicit act of the Will, and not an act of Force and Conſtraint) tranſlated the Power of ſending out, ordering, cenſuring, (for as they accept of their Liberty from them, ſo they ſubmit to their Cenſures and Reſtaints, at leaſt all of them who were yet tried with it, and others of them appeared and acknowledged before their Courts, that they would not have done theſe things that they were charged with, if they had thought it would have offended them,) Miniſters departing from the Court of Chriſt, and ſubjection to the Miniſtry, to the Courts of Men, and ſubjection to the Magiſtrate, (which had been impious and injurious to Chriſt and His Church, though they had been righteous and lawful Rulers,) and by their changing of Courts, (according to Common Law) hath changed their Maſters, and of the Miniſters of Chriſt are become the Miniſters of Men, and bound to anſwer to them as oft as they will; and as by the acceptation of this Liberty in ſuch manner, they have tranſlated the Power, ſo they have given up and utterly quit the Government, and a ſucceſſion of a Preſbyterian Miniſtry; for as theſe were not granted them of their Maſters, ſo they exerciſe their Miniſtry without them, and ſo by this, as the Eccleſiaſtick Government is ſwallowed up in the Civil, (if the reſt had followed them) the Miniſtry ſhould [Page] have alſo been extinct with themſelves, and the whole Work of Reformation had been buried in Oblivion, not ſo much as the remembrance of it kept up: Theſe, together with the other of their Commiſſions in Preaching, the lawfulneſs of paying that Tribute declared to be impoſed for the bearing down of the true Worſhip of God, (which they falſly termed Seditions Conventicles,) and their adviſing theſe poor Priſoners to ſubſcribe the Bond, and conſequently could not but ſo adviſe all others, if put to it, (for the hazard that Men were in, will not make a real change of the morality of that Action,) and beſide, the reſt may be put to it upon the ſame hazard, and ſo if the one ſhould adviſe, (which conſequently they muſt do,) and the other ſhould ſubſcribe, this would altogether cloſe that door which the Lord hath made uſe of in all the Churches of Europe, for caſting off the Yoke of the Whore, and reſtoring the truth and purity of Religion and Reformation, and freedom of the Churches, and ſhould have ſtopped all ingreſs for Men, when once brought under Tyranny, to recover their Liberty again. Theſe Miniſters then, not being followers of Chriſt, who before Pontius Pilate, gave a good Confeſſion, which was, that he was a King, and no King, if he have not power to order his Houſe and Subjects, and they not following him, nor his Miniſters, if not aſſerting and maintaining of this his kingly Power, againſt all Incroachers and Uſurpers of it; and beſides, we being commanded, If any Brother walk diſorderly, from ſuch to withdraw; and although in the capacity we now are in, we neither have, nor aſſumes to our ſelves Authority to give out definite and authoritative ſentences of Depoſition and Supenſion againſt theſe Miniſters; yet we declare, which is proper for us to do, that we neither can, nor will hear Preaching, nor receive Sacraments from theſe Miniſters that hath accepted of, and voted for that Liberty; and declares all who have encouraged and ſtrengthened their Hands, by hearing and pleading for them, all thoſe who have traffiqued for an union with them, without their renouncing and repenting of theſe things, all thoſe that do not teſtifie faithfully againſt them, and after do not deport themſelves ſuitably to their teſtimonies, and all who joyn not in publick with their Brethren, who are teſtifying againſt them; we declare, that we ſhall not hear them Preach, nor receive Sacraments from them, at leaſt, till they ſtand in Judgment before theſe Miniſters, and be judged by them who have followed the Lord, and kept themſelves free of theſe Defections: And as our Hearts hath cleaved to theſe Miniſters, while they were on the Lords ſide, and ſubjected our ſelves to them, ſo we ſhall ſtill cleave to thoſe that abide following Him, and ſhall be ſubject to them in the Lord.

VII. Then we do declare and acknowledge, that a Goſpel-Miniſtry, is a ſtanding Ordinance of God, appointed by Chriſt, to continue in the Church, until the end of the World; and that none of us ſhall take upon him the preaching of the Word, or adminiſtring the Sacraments, unleſs called, and ordained thereto, by the Miniſters of the Goſpel: And as we declare that we are for a ſtanding Goſpel-Miniſtry, rightly choſen, and rightly ordained, ſo we declare, that we ſhall go about this Work in time to come, with more Faſting and Praying, and more careful Inſpection into the converſation and holineſs of theſe Men that ſhall be choſen and ordained, the want of which formerly, hath been a great ſin, both in Miniſters and People, which hath not been the leaſt cauſe of this Defection.

THE DECLARATION and TESTIMONY OF THE True-Presbyterian, Anti-prelatick, AND ANTI-ERASTIAN, PERSECUTED-PARTY IN SCOTLAND.

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IT is not amongſt the ſmalleſt of the Lords Mercies to this poor Land, that there hath aways been ſome who hath given a Teſtimony of every courſe of Defection which we were guilty of, which is a token for Good, that he does not as yet intend to cast us off altogether, but that He will leave a remnant, in whom he will be glorious, if they (through His Grace) keep themſelves clean still, and walk in His Way and Method, as it hath been walked in, and owned by Him in our Predeceſſors (of truly worthy Memory) their time, in their carrying out of our noble Work of Reformation, in the ſeveral steps thereof, from Popery and Prelacy, and likewiſe from Eraſtian-Supremacy, ſo much uſurped by him, who it is true (ſo far as we know) is deſcended from the Race of our Kings; yet he hath ſo far deborded from what be ought to have been, by his Perjury and Ʋſurpation in Church-matters, and Tyranny in matters Civil, as is known by the whole Land, that we have juſt reaſon to believe, that one of the Lords great Contraverſies againſt us is, that we have not diſowned him, and the Men of his Practices, whether inferiour Magiſtrates, or any others, as Enemies to our Lord and His Crown, and the true Proteſtant and Presbyterian-Intereſt in their hands, our Lords eſpouſed Bride and Church. Therefore, although we be for Government, and Governours, ſuch as the Word of God, and our Covenants allows, yet we for our ſelves, and all that will adhere to us, as the Repreſentatives of the true Presbyterian-Church, and covenanted Nation of Scotland, conſidering the great hazard of lying under ſuch a ſin, do by theſe preſents, diſown Charles Stuart, who hath been reigning, or rather (we may ſay) tyrannizing on the Throne of Scotland, or Government thereof, (forfaulted ſeveral years ſince by his Perjury and breach of Covenant with God and His Church,) and uſurpation of his Crown and Royal Prerogatives therein, and many other breaches in matters Eccleſiaſtick, and by his Tyranny and breach of the very Leges Regnandi in matters Civil; for which Reaſons, we declare, that ſeveral years ſince he ſhould have been denuded of being King, Ruler, or Magistrate, or having any Power to act, or to be obeyed [Page]as ſuch: As alſo, [...] of Christ, Captain of Salvation, we declare War against ſuch a Tyrant and Ʋſurper, and all the Men of his Practices, as Enemies to our Lord Jeſus Chriſt, His Cauſe and Covenants, and againſt all ſuch as have strengthened him, ſided with him, or any ways acknowledged him in his Ʋſurpation and Tyranny, Civil and Eccleſiastick, yea, and againſt all ſuch as ſhall strengthen, ſide with, or any ways acknowledge any other in the like Ʋſurpation and Tyranny, far more against ſuch as would be tray or deliver up our free reformed Mother Church, into the Bondage of Antichriſt, the Pope of Rome.

By this we Homologat the Teſtimony given at Rutherglen, the twenty ninth of May, 1679. and all the faithful Teſtimonies of theſe that have gone before us, as of theſe alſo that have ſuffered of late; and we do diſclaim that Declaration publiſhed at Hamiltoun, June 1679. chiefly, becauſe it takes in the Kings, Intereſt, which we are ſeveral years ſince looſed from, becauſe of the foreſaid Reaſons, and others, which may after this (if the Lord will) be publiſhed. As alſo, we diſown, and by this reſente the reception of the Duke of York, a profeſt Papiſt, as repugeant to our Principles and Vows to the moſt High God, and as that which is the great (though alace too juſt) reproach of our Church and Nation: We alſo, by this, proteſt againſt his ſucceeding to the Crown, and whatever hath been done, or any are eſſaying to do in this Land (given to the Lord) in prejudice to our Work of Reformation.

And to conclude, We hope none will blame us for, or offend at, our rewarding theſe that are against us, as they have done to us, as the Lord gives the opportunity. This is not to exclude any that hath declined, if they be willing to give ſatisfaction to the degree of their offence.

Given at Sanqhuair, the 22. of June, 1680.

Theſe are the True and Exact Copies of the Fanaticks New-Covenant, and Declaration; Collationed with the Originals, which are kept amongſt the Records of His Majeſties Privy-Council; and atteſted by

AL. GIBSON, Cl. Sti. Concilij. And WILL. PATERSON, Cl. Sti. Concilij.

FINIS.

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A true and exact copy of a treasonable and bloody-paper called the Fanaticks new-covenant which was taken from Mr. Donald Cargill at Queens-Ferry the third day of June, anno Dom. 1680 one of their field-preachers, a declared rebel and traitor ; together with their execrable declaration published at the Cross of Sanquhair upon the twenty two day of the said month of June after a solemn procession and singing of Psalms by Cameron the notorious ring-leader of and preacher at their field-conventicles, accompanied with twenty of that wretched crew.

Cargill, Donald, 1619?-1681.

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1680

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43824

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— A true and exact copy of a treasonable and bloody-paper called the Fanaticks new-covenant which was taken from Mr. Donald Cargill at Queens-Ferry the third day of June, anno Dom. 1680 one of their field-preachers, a declared rebel and traitor ; together with their execrable declaration published at the Cross of Sanquhair upon the twenty two day of the said month of June after a solemn procession and singing of Psalms by Cameron the notorious ring-leader of and preacher at their field-conventicles, accompanied with twenty of that wretched crew., Cargill, Donald, 1619?-1681..

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Printed by the heir of Andrew Anderson ...,. Edinburgh :: 1680.. ("Printed and published by order of His Majesties Privy Council in obedience to His Majesties commands in his letter dated at Windsor-Castle the 5th day of July, 1680.") ("The declaration and testimony of the true-Presbyterian, anti-prelatick and anti-erastian persecuted-party in Scotland": p. 9-10.) (This item appears at reel 1326:24 as Wing C569 (cancelled in Wing (CD-ROM, 1996)), and at reel 1344:4 as Wing T2431.) (Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.)

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