for watching and taking advantage of any public movement for overturning the present despotism, and recovering our liberties, civil and religious.  We require to make the terms of admission strict, to guard against spies, and those who are contentious or quarrelsome.  At the same time they declare the close and hallowed relations that bound them to all the true disciples of their common Lord.  In a noble spirit of Christian brotherhood, they virtually proclaim, “On the communion of saints, let us impose no new restrictions.  Though others differ from us in the word of their special testimony, let us embrace and love them, and acknowledge fellowship with them as Christian brethren."[6] In these noble utterances, we have strikingly exemplified the true spirit of Christian brotherhood and Catholic communion.  This is the genuine import of the vow of the Solemn League and Covenant, which binds Covenanters to regard whatever is done to the least of them, as done to all and to every one in particular.  While firmly holding fast all Scriptural attainments, and contending “earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints,” we should cordially rejoice in the evidences of grace in Christ’s servants wherever we find them.  We should love them as brethren, fulfil the law of Christ by bearing their burdens, wish them God speed in all that they are doing for the advancement of His glory, and fervently labour and pray for the coming of the happy period when divisions and animosities shall cease, and when there shall be one King, and His name one in all the earth.

5.  The testimony of Renwick and his associates is of permanent value and of special importance in our day, as it was directed against systems of error and idolatry, which serve to corrupt the Church and enslave the State.  Against Popery in every form Renwick was a heroic and uncompromising witness.  At the peril of life, he publicly testified against the usurpation of the papist James, and rejected him as having no claim to be regarded as a constitutional sovereign, and as utterly disqualified to reign in a Protestant reformed land.  This was the main ground of his objection against James’s toleration, for which the Indulged ministers tendered obsequious thanks to the usurper.  Yet this edict of toleration was issued for the purpose of opening the way for the practice of Rome’s abominations, and for the advancement of papists to places of power and trust in the nation.  None of the Cameronians would, for any earthly consideration, even to save their lives, for a moment admit that a papist had any right to exercise political power in a reformed land.  Our martyred forefathers we regard as worthy of high respect and imitation, for their deeply cherished dread of the growing influence of Popery, and for their determined resistance to its exclusive and extravagant claims.  The system of Popery is the abnegation of all precious gospel truth; and is a complete politico-religious confederacy against the best interests of a Protestant