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 Burgesses, Ministers, and commons, in the year 1638, and approven by the General Assembly, and by an Act of Parliament 1650 It was also subscribed by King Charles at the river Spey, in the north of Scotland and at the palace of Scoon, near Perth, the year 1651. This Covenant is recorded at large in the Confession of Faith, p. 45 the substance of which is as follows

"We protest against all false Religions chiefly all kinds of Popery, (see the Articles of the Church of Rome) as also to defend the King's person and government, in defence of the true Religion"