arried on this war did not only neglect to desire a Treaty, but also
slight an offer of a Treaty made from the Parliament of _England_ upon the
Propositions of both Kingdoms.

4. There are many clear and ful testimonies of Scriptures against the
breach and violation of Covenants, although but between man and man,
_Psal._ 55. 20. _Rom._ 1, 31. 2 _Tim._ 3. 3, Especially where the name of
God was interposed in Covenants by any of his people, _Jer._ 34. 8, 10,
11, 18. _Ezek._ 17. 18. 19. How much more the violation of a Solemn
Covenant between God and his people. _Lev._ 26. 15. 25. _Deut._ 17. 2. and
29. 21, 14, 25. _Jer._ 22. 8, 9. 1 _King._ 19. 10. _Dan._ 11. 32. _Hos._
6. 7. If therefore the present Engagement be a breach of our solemn League
and Covenant, then they who have before taken the Covenant, and have now
joyned in this Engagement, must grant by necessary and infailible
consequence, either that the Covenant it self which they took was
unlawful, and such as they cannot perform without sin (which yet they
cannot professe) or otherwise, that the Engagement is unlawfull and
sinfull, as being a breach of Covenant, and so contrary to the Word of
God; that the present Engagement is a breach of Covenant may appear by
comparing it with each of the Articles, for it is against all the six
Articles of the Covenant.

Against the first, because in stead of the preservation of the Doctrine,
Worship, Discipline and Government of this Kirk; there is not onely a
great quarelling by those that do Engage, at the present doctrine, and
free preaching, a disturbing of and withdrawing from the Worship, and
namely from the late solemn humiliation: But also a refusall of such
things as were desired by the Commission of the late Assembly and
Provincial Synods, as necessary to the preservation of the true Reformed
Religion: And we have just cause of fear that the Reformation of Religion
in Doctrine, Worship, Discipline and Government is not intended to be
sufficiently maintained and preserved, when we finde such a limitation and
restriction in the late Declaration of the Committee of Estates to the
Parliament and Kingdom of _England, That they will maintain and preserve
the Reformation of Religion, Doctrine, Worship, Discipline and Government,
as is by the mercy of GOD, and his Majesties goodnesse established by Law
among us_; but as there is no such limitation in the Covenant, so we have
not had such proof of his Majesties goodnesse as to