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Christ, and do make a sure covenant with thee this day, never to be reversed, hoping thou wilt make all forthcoming unto me, both on thy part, and mine.—I desire here to own all the contraverted truths that are founded on thy holy word; which word I desire to be my rule, and to confess thee before when, that thou mayest confess me before the Father. Lord, give me in that hour, if I shall be brought before great ones for thy names sake, I desire to adhere to all the articles of the Covenants, National and Solemn League, to which I am engaged; only disown the king's part of it, he having unkinged himself by the breach of Covenants, and by making our land a land of graven images, that was so solemnly given up to God: I desire in weakness to adhere to it, altho' burnt by the hand of the hangman, and now buried by those that better things were expected of. O Lord, I desire to close all, by giving myself up to thee, and all mine: Accept, Lord Jesus Christ, and help to perform, and own me as thy covenanted child, protesting humbly, that failing on my part (against which I resolve as thou knowest) shall not make void this covenant. I have accepted of thy offer upon thy own terms, and will henceforth wait for what is good, that when thou comest I may rejoice in thee,
