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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

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 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 the other being a sinful custom contrair to the first institution of Marriage crept in