WEall, and every one of us underwritten, protest that after long and due examination of our own consciences in matters of true, & false religion, are now throughly resolved of the truth by the word and Spirit of God; and therefore we beleeve with our hearts, confesse with our mouthes, subcribe with our hands, and constantly affirm before God, and the whole world: that this onely is the true Christian Faith, and Re­ligion, pleasing God, and bringing salvation to man, which now is by the mercy of God revealed to the world by the preaching of the blessed Evangel: And received, beleived, and defended by many and sundry notable Kirks and Realms; but chiefely by the Kirk of Scotland, the Kings Majesty, and our Estates of this Realme, as Gods eternall truth and onely ground of our salvation; as more particularly is expressed in the Confession of our faithsta­blished and confirmed by many Acts of Parliaments, and now of a long time hath been openly professed by the Kings Majesty, and whole body of his Realm, both in Burgh and Land. To the which Confession and forme of religion we willingly agree in our consciences in all points as unto Gods undoubted truth and verity, grounded only upon his written word: and therefore we abhorre and detest all contrary religion and doctrine: but chiefely all kinde of Papistry, in generall and particular heads, even as they are now damned & confuted by the word of God, [Page]and Kirk of Scotland: but in especiall, we detest and refuse the usurped authority of that Romane Antichrist upon the Scriptures of God upon the Kirk, the civill Ma­gistrate, and consciences of men, all his tyrannous lawes made upon indifferent things against our Chris­tian liberty; his erroneous doctrine against the sufficien­cy of the written word, and the perfection of the Law, the office of Christ and his blessed Evangel. His corrup­ted doctrine concerning originall sin, our naturall ina­bility and rebellion to Gods law, our justification by faith only, our imperfect sanctification and obedience to the Law, the nature, number, and use of the holy Sacra­ments. His five bastard Sacraments, with all his rites, ce­remonies, and false doctrine added to the ministration of the true Sacraments, without the word of God. His cruell judgement against infants departing without the Sacra­ment, his absolute necessity of Baptisme, his blasphemous opinion of Transubstantiation, or reall presence of Christs body in the elements, and receiving of the same by the wicked or bodies of men; his dispensations with solemne Oathes, periuries, and degrees of marriage forbidden in the word, his cruelty against the innocent divorced, his devilish Masse, his blasphemous priesthood, his prophane Sacrifices for the sinnes of the dead and the quick, his Ca­nonization of men calling upon Angels or Saints departed, worshipping of imagerie relicks, and crosses, dedicating of kirkes, Alters, dayes, vowes to creatures, his purgatory, prayers for the dead, praying or speaking in a strange lan­guage, with his processions, and blasphemons lettany, and multitude of advocates or mediatours, his manifold or­ders, auricular confession, his desperate and uncertain re­pentance, his generall, and doubtsome faith, his satisfaction of men for their sins, his iustification by works, opus opera­tum, [Page]works of supererogation, merits, pardons, peregrina­tions and stations, his holy water, baptizing of bells, conju­ring of saints, crossing, fanning, anointing, coniuring, hal­lowing of Gods good creatures with the superstitous opin­ion, joyned there with his wordly Monarchy, and wicked Hierarcy, his three solemne vowes, with all his shavelings of sundry sorts, his erronious and bloody decrees made at Trent, with all the subscribers, & approvers of that cruell and bloody and band conjured against the Kirk of God; and finally we detest all vain allegories, rites, signes, and traditions, brought in the Kirk, without or against the word of God, and doctrine of this true reformed Kirk; to the which we joyne our selves willingly in doctrine, faith, religion, discipline, and use of the Holy Sacraments, as live­ly members of the same in Christ our Head, prominsig and swering by the name of God our Lord, That we shall con­tinue in the obedience of the doctrine and discipline of this Kirk, and shall defende the same according to our vocati­on, all the dayes of our lives, under the paines contained in the law, and danger both of body and soule in the day of Gods fearefull Iudgements. And seeing that many are stir­red up by Sathan, and that Roman Antichrist to promise, sweare, subscribe, and for a time use the holy Sacraments in the Kirk, deceitfull against their own consciences, min­ding thereby first under the Externall cloak of religion, to corrupt and subvert secretly Gods true religion, within the Kirk; and afterward when time may serve to become open enemies and persecutors of the same, under vain hope of the Popes dispensation, devised against the word of God to his greater confusion, and their double condemnation in the day of the Lord Iesus Christ.

We therefore willing to take away all suspition of hi­pocrisie, and of such double dealing with God & his Kirk, [Page]protest, and call the searcher of hearts for witnesse, that our minds and hearts do fully agree with this our Confession, Promise, Oath, and Subscription; so that we are not mo­ved for any worldly respects, but are perswaded onely in our consciences through the knowledge & love of Gods true Religion printed in our hearts by the holy Spirit, as we shall answer to him, in the day when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed: and because we perceive that the quietnesse and stability of our Religion and Kirk doth depend upon the safety and good behaviour of the Kings Majesty, as upon a comfortable instrument of Gods mer­cy granted to this Countrey, for the maintaining of his Kirk, and ministration of justice amongst us; wee protest and promise with our hearts under the same oath, hand, writ, and pains, that we shall defend his royall person and authority, with our goods, bodies and lives, in the de­fence of Christ his Evangel, Liberties of our countrey, mi­nistration of justice, and punishment of iniquity, against all enemies within this Realm or without, as wee desire our God to be be a strong and mercifull defender to us in the day of our death, and comming of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom with the Father and the holy Spirit bee all honour and glory eternally.