without encroachment, or permitting
encroachment thereon, if in my power to prevent or lessen it. I
will, moreover, act in subordination to the laws of my country,
and never countenance any change in the government under which I
live, without good and answerable reasons for so doing, that
ancient usages and immemorial customs be not overturned.

3d.--I swear to venerate the mark as the wisdom and decree of
Heaven, to unite our hands and hearts in the work of the holy
crusade, and as an encouragement to act with zeal and efficacy;
and I swear to consider its testimonies as the true and only
proper test of an illustrious brother of the cross.

4th.--I swear to wear the mark of this order, without any the
least addition, except what I shall be legally entitled to by
INDUCTION, forever, if not without the physical means of doing so,
or it being contrary to propriety; and even then, if possible, to
wear the holy cross; and I swear to put a chief dependence for the
said worthy and pious objects therein.

5th.--I swear to put confidence unlimited in every illustrious
brother of the cross, as a true and worthy follower of the blessed
Jesus, who has sought this land, not for private good, but pity,
and the glory of the religion of the Most High and Holy God.

6th.--I swear never to permit my political principles nor personal
interest to come counter to his, if forbearance and brotherly
kindness can operate to prevent it; and never to meet him if I
know it, in war or in peace, under such circumstances that I may
not, in justice to myself, my cross, and my country wish him
unqualified success; and if perchance it should happen without my
knowledge, on being informed thereof, that I will use my best
endeavors to satisfy him, even to the relinquishing my arms and
purpose. I will never shed a brother's blood nor thwart his good
fortune, knowing him to be such, nor see it done by others if in
my power to prevent it.

7th.--I swear to advance my brother's best interest, by always
supporting his military fame and political preferment in
opposition to another; and by employing his arms or his aid in his
vocation, under all circumstances where I shall not suffer more by
so doing, than he, by my neglecting to do so, but this never to
the sacrifice of any vital interest in our holy religion, or in
the welfare of my country.

8th.--I swear to look on his e