We own also, as subordinate standards of faith and practice of doctrine and order, the National Covenant and Solemn League:  as also the Westminster formularies, well known by their names—­viz., the Confession of Faith, the Larger and Shorter Catechisms, Form of Church Government, and Directory of Public Worship; as these were received respectively by the Church of Scotland in the years 1645, ’47, and ’48, not merely as “Doctrinal Standards,” but as symbols, all of them, of Christian practice also, and as a part of the uniformity sworn to in the Solemn League.  We adhere to the Renovation of the National Covenants at Auchensaugh, 1712, as comprising the same grand Scriptural principles with the original deeds, and preserving the identity of the moral person, which became more visible in 1761 by a Judicial Testimony, re-exhibited in 1858 and 1876.

We repudiate the Renovation at Dervock, 1853, as being inadequate, defective, and unfaithful—­part of the document couched in abstract, evasive, and equivocal language.  Also, we condemn and reject the Pittsburgh Bond, as ambiguous, self-contradictory and treacherous—­“a snare on Mizpah.”  We abjure and testify against Popery, as delineated by our ancestors in the National Covenant, together with the fictitious dogma of the Immaculate Conception, and the blasphemous assumption by the Pope of Jehovah’s incommunicable prerogative of Infallibility.  In like manner we reject Prelacy, whether Erastian or Diocesan, as abjured in the National Covenant and more explicitly in the Solemn League; while in pity for the persons involved in these despotic systems, we will pray and labor for the extirpation of these poisonous plants, and the emancipation of their deluded admirers.  We condemn and disown all existing systems which involve the infidel element called Voluntaryism, representing the divine ordinances of Church and State as mutually inimical or in any way antagonistic, thus impeaching the wisdom of the Almighty.

III.  Believing that the Son of God has been, as Mediator appointed heir of all things, and invested with universal dominion; that he reigns and must reign till all his impenitent enemies be put under his feet:  we pledge ourselves in reliance on divine grace to continue our advocacy of his claims upon the homage and willing obedience of individual and social man, in the family, the church and the civil commonwealth.  We will maintain and urge his exclusive right to prescribe the faith and order of the church by his royal authority.  We promise to inculcate and exemplify Presbyterian Church Government as alone of divine right and unalterable.