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A33102 The national convenant of the Kirk of Scotland and the Solemn League and Covenant of the three kingdoms Church of Scotland. 1660 (1660) Wing C4231C; ESTC R22584 8,495 22

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THE NATIONAL COVENANT of the Kirk of SCOTLAND And the SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT of the three KINGDOMS EDINBVRGH Printed by a Society of Stationers Anno Dom. 1660. The Nationall Covenant Or The Confession of Faith subscribed at first by the Kings Majesty and his Houshold in the year of God 1580. Thereafter by all sorts of ranks in the year 1581. By ordinance of the Lords of the Secret Counsel and Acts of the Generall Assembly Subscribed again by all sorts of persons in the year 1590. by a new Ordinance of Counsel at the desire of the Generall Assembly with a generall Band for maintenance of the true Religion and the Kings person And subscribed in the year 1638. By us Noblemen Barrons Gentlemen Burgesses Ministers and Commons then undersubscribing Together with our resolution and promises for the causes after specified To maintain the said true Religion and the Kings Majesty according to the Confession foresaid and Acts of Parliament And now upon the supplication of the Generall Assembly to his Majesties high Commissioner and the Lords of his Majesties honourable Privy Counsell subscribed again in the year 1639. by Ordinance of counsel and Act of the Generall Assembly WE all and every one of Us underwritten protest that after long and due Examination of our own Consciences in matters of true and false Religion We are now throughly resolved of the Truth by the Word and Spirit of God and therefore We believe with our hearts confesse with our mouths subscribe with our hands and constantly affirm before God and the whole World that this only 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 Evangell and received believed and defended by many and sundry notable Kirks and Realms but chiefly by the Kirk of Scotland the Kings Majesty and the three Estates of this Realm as Gods eternall Truth and only ground of our Salvation as more particularly is expressed in the Confession of our Faith established and publikely confirmed by sundry Acts of Parliament and now of a long time hath been openly professed by the Kings Majesty and whole body of this Realm both in Burgh and Land To the which Confession and form 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 abhor and detest all contrary Religion and Doctrine But chiefly all kind of Papistry in general and particular heads even as they are now damned and confuted by the Word of God and Kirk of Scotland But in speciall we detest and refuse the usurped authority of that Romane Antichrist upon the Scriptures of God upon the Kirk the Civil 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 the perfection of the Law the Office of Christ and His blessed Evangell His corrupted Doctrine concerning original sin our natural 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 Baptism 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 dispensation with solemn Oaths Perjuries and degrees of Marriage forbidden in the Word His cruelty against the innocent divorced His devilish Masse His blasphemous Priest-hood His profane Sacrifice for the sins of the dead and the quick His Canonization of men calling upon Angels or Saints departed worshipping of Imagery Relicts and Crosses dedicating of Kirks Altars Dayes Vowes to creatures His Purgatory Prayers for the dead praying or speaking in a strange language with his Processions blasphemous Leteny and multitude of Advocates or Mediators His manifold Orders Auricular Confession His desperate and uncertain Repentance His generall and doubtsome Faith His satisfactions of men for their sins His Justifications by works opus operatum works of Supererogation Merits Pardons Peregrinations and Stations His holy-water baptising of Bells conjuring of Spirits crossing saning anointing conjuring hallowing of Gods good creatures with the superstitious opinion joyned therewith His worldly Monarchy and wicked Hierarchie His three solemn vowes with all his shavellings of sundry sorts His erroneous and bloudy decrees made at Trent with all the subscribers and approvers of that cruel and bloudy Band conjured against the Kirk of God And finally We detest all his 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 joyn our selves willingly in Doctrine Faith Religion Discipline and use of the holy Sacraments as lively members of the same in Christ our Head Promising and swearing by the Great Name of the Lord our God that we shall continue in the Obedience of the Doctrine and Discipline of this Kirk and shall defend the same according to our vocation and power all the dayes of our lives under the pains contained in the Law and danger both of Body and Soul in the day of Gods fearful judgement And seeing that many are stirred up by Satan and that Romane Antichrist to promise swear subscribe and for a time use the holy Sacraments in the Kirk deceitfully 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 hopes of the Popes dispensation devised against the Word of God to his greater confusion and their double condemnation in the day of the Lord Jesus We therefore willing to take away all suspition of hypocrisie and of such double dealing with God and his Kirk Protest and call The Searcher of all hearts for witnesse that our mindes and hearts doe fully agree with this our Confession Promise Oath and Subscription so that We are not moved for any worldly respect but are perswaded only in our consciences through the knowledge and 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 this Kirk and ministration of Justice amongst us we protest and promise with our hearts under the