allegiance of subjects, bind both equally to the support of Prelacy—­which is declared to be established unchangeably in England and Ireland.  The whole civil system is based on expediency and the popular will, and not on Scriptural principles.  The authority claimed and exercised by the monarch over the Presbyterian Establishment in Scotland, and the National Church in England and Ireland, is grossly Erastian.  The introduction of Popery into the bosom of the State—­the admission of Papists to offices of power and trust in the nation, and the endowment of Popish Seminaries and chaplains—­which the Revolution Settlement barred—­but which the Antichristian and infidel policy of recent times has enacted, show still more clearly that the civil and political system established in these countries is diametrically opposed to that which was set up at the era of the Reformation, and was contended for by the Scottish martyrs—­and impose on all who would honestly promote the ends of the National Covenants, the obligation to maintain distinct separation from it.