Acknowledging the righteousness of divine judgment upon ourselves and others for manifold violations of God’s law and breaches of our own and our fathers’ solemn vows in our domestic, ecclesiastical and civil relations; we desire to humble ourselves before God for these sins, and for others not contained in this enumeration.  Seeing that God hath punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hath left us a small remnant in his sovereign mercy, our prayer to him is that he may enable us by his grace to bring forth fruits meet for repentance, to the glory of his great and holy name, and the commendation of his pardoning mercy.

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ACT OF ADHERENCE TO OUR COVENANTS.  NATIONAL AND SOLEMN LEAGUE; AS ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT TIME.

We, office-bearers and members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, convinced by the Word and Spirit of God of our guilt and depravity by our breach of covenant in Adam; of utter inability to save ourselves from the ruins of the falls or its just penal consequences; desiring moreover to bless, the Lord, that when we were yet without strength Christ died for the ungodly; that a door of faith has been opened to the Gentiles, and repentance unto life granted to such; taking our warrant and encouragement from God alone, with our hands lifted up toward him:—­do swear by his great and fearful name as the Lord our God, that—­

I. We accept God in Christ for ourselves and our children as offered to us in the gospel, to be our everlasting portion; and we joyfully surrender ourselves and our all to him as his rightful and exclusive property.  We cordially approve the Covenant of Grace, and embrace it as all our salvation and all our desire.  Dead to the law as a covenant of works, we cheerfully receive it from Christ’s hand as our perfect rule of life, to direct our personal and social conduct.  Aiming to glorify God as our chief end, and to do good unto all men as we have opportunity—­especially to the household of faith—­we promise in the strength of divine grace to search the Scriptures, conforming heart and life to this standard, in constant opposition to the course of this world, exemplifying godliness and honesty before men all our days.

II.  Set for the defence of the gospel, and under manifold obligations to contend earnestly for the faith which was once delivered to the saints, we acknowledge the Scriptures of the Old and new Testament to be the Word of God and the alone infallible rule of faith and manners, rejecting any and all additions or subtractions, false translations, perverting or wresting them to men’s destruction.