1.  They cooperate practically with all classes in the civil community, in maintaining national rebellion against the Lord and his Anointed.  They give their suffrages toward the elevation of vile persons to the highest places of civil dignity in the American confederacy—­knowing the candidates to be strangers or enemies to Immanuel.  And although they have recently lifted a testimony against that system of robbery called slavery, which is so far right; yet this fact only goes to render their professed loyalty to an unscriptural frame of civil government, as manifestly inconsistent as it is impious.

2.  The have all along in the United States renounced the civil part of the British Covenants, declaring that they “neither have nor ever had anything to do with them.”  Truth is not local, nor does the obligation of the second table of the moral law, on which that part of our covenants is plainly founded, depend on the permanency of our residence in a particular portion of the world.  “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.”  It follows, that however solemnly or frequently they profess to renew their fathers’ covenants; the whole transaction displays their unfaithfulness to the Lord, who is a party in the covenants; and is calculated to mislead the unwary.

3.  Their unsteadfastness is further evidenced, by conforming to other ecclesiastical communities in the loose practice of occasional or indiscriminate hearing; and even in some instances of ministerial intercommunion—­the law of their church on that matter having become obsolete.  Against these courses, in some of which that body has obstinately persevered for more than a hundred years, we deem it incumbent on us to continue an uncompromising testimony.  Many comments the Moral Governor of the nations has furnished in his providence within the last century, making still more intelligible the righteous claims of his word:  but Seceders seem to have their moral vision obscured by a vail of hereditary prejudice.  We trust the Lord is on his way to destroy the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations; Is. xxv, 7.

SEC.  II.  Our testimony against the unfaithfulness of the Associate Reformed Church, continues also without material change since the rise of that body.  The following among others may here be noticed, as constituting just grounds of opposition in a way of testimony-bearing, by all who would be found faithful to the Lord, and their covenant engagements.

1.  Their very origin was unwarranted by scripture.  All the scriptural attainments to which they profess to adhere, were already incorporated in the standards of the organic bodies, from whose fellowship they seceded.  They did therefore make a breach without a definite object, and multiply divisions in the visible body of Christ without necessity.  Thus they did violence to the royal law of love; for while under a profession of charity they invited to their new