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The Auchensaugh renovation
of the
national covenant and solemn league and covenant;
with the
acknowledgment of sins and engagement to duties,
as they were
renewed at Auchensaugh, near Douglas,
July 24, 1712. 
(Compared with the editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.)
Also,
the renovation
of these
public federal deeds
ordained at Philadelphia, October 8, 1880,
by the
reformed presbytery,
with accommodation of the original covenants, in both transactions,
to their times and positions respectively.

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Philadelphia 1880.

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Preface.

The Reformed Presbytery, at a meeting in Philadelphia, October 6th 1880, “Resolved, That another edition of the Auchensaugh Deed be published,” and appointed the undersigned a committee “to attend to this business with all convenient speed.”

This Presbytery, after forty years’ experience, during which opportunities have been afforded for examining the opinions and practices of all parties, professing any regard for the Covenanted Reformation, is still deeply impressed with the conviction that the transaction at Auchensaugh 1712, is the only faithful renovation of our Covenants, National and Solemn League.  The fidelity of our fathers in that hazardous and heroic transaction, it is believed, has ever since been the occasion (not the cause) of all opponents manifesting their hostility to the whole covenanted cause, by first assaults upon that detested Bond.  And that this is the real state of the case we proceed to prove by the following historical facts. First.—­In connection with remodeling the Testimony; or rather by supplanting it in 1806, the Terms of Communion, without submitting an overture, were also changed to harmonize with Reformation Principles Exhibited, by excluding the Auchensaugh Renovation from the fourth Term, where it had stood for nearly a century.  The same party have for years excluded from their abstract of Terms the Covenants themselves. Second.—­In Scotland this faithful document was expunged in 1822, obviously to prepare the way for the adoption of a "New Testimony"(!), which appeared 1837-9.  The majority of the actors in that work who survive, are now in the Free Church!