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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71139	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.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2431; ESTC R27018	8,841	12

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. EDINBVRGH 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 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 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 IV. 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 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