f King
and Queen without any condition or security first had from them; And so by
that rule in the Declaration they must expect to be used as enemies, not
as friends. That sixth Article is also broken by a departing from the
first principles and resolutions: and by dividing, and withdrawing from
those that adhere thereunto, which hath been before cleared by the
Commission of the late Generall Assembly in their Declaration in _March_,
Representation, and other Papers published in Print.

5. We leave it to be seriously pondered by every one who is truely
conscientious, whether it be any ways credible or probable, or agreeable
to Scripture rules, that the generality of all that have been most
faithfull and cordiall to the Covenant and cause of God should be
deceived, deluded and darkened in this businesse, and that they who for
the most part were enemies to the work of God in the beginning, and have
never brought forth fruits meet for Repentance, should now finde out the
will of God more than his most faithfull Servants in the Land, and who,
that fears God, will believe that Malignants are for the ends of the
Covenant and that they who are most instrumental in the Reformation, are
against the ends of the Covenant.

All which considered, as we could not, without involving our selves in the
guiltinesse of so unlawfull an Engagement, yeeld to the desire of the Army
for Ministers to be sent by us to attend them; So we do earnestly exhort,
and in the name and authority of Jesus Christ, charge and require all and
every one of the Members of this Reformed Kirk of _Scotland_.

I. That they search narrowly into the sins which have Procured so great
judgements and so sad an interruption of the work of God, that they
examine themselves, consider their wayes, be much in humiliation and
prayer, study a reall and practicall Reformation, That they also mourn and
sigh for the abominations of the Land, and stand in the gap to turn away
the wrath, Among all these fearfull sins, the violation of the Solemn
League and Covenant, would not be forgotten but seriously laid to heart,
as that which eminently provoketh the Lord and procureth his judgements to
be powred forth not onely upon persons and families, but also upon States
and Kingdoms. Covenant-breakers through in common things, are reckoned by
the Apostle in that Catalogue of the abominations of the Gentiles: But
among the people of God, where his great name is interposed, the breach of