nicated.

II. That all these who have been guilty and censured as aforesaid, and
desire to testifie their Repentance, and to be admitted to the Covenant
and Communion, shall besides any Confession in publick before the
Congregation subscribe the Declaration herto sub-joyned, of their unfained
detestation and renunciation of that Engagement, and all other Malignant
courses contrary to the Covenant and Cause, Promising to keep themselves
from such ways in time coming, and acknowledging that if they shall again
fall into such defection thereafter, they may justly be accounted
perfidious backsliders, and breakers of the Covenant and Oath of God, and
proceeded against with the highest Censures of the Kirk.

III. That of these who have been guilty and censured as aforesaid, and
desire now to testifie their Repentance, Whosoever were formerly joyned in
Arms or Counsell with _James Graham_ in his Rebellion, or who were
Generall persons or Colonels in the late unlawfull Engagement, Or who went
to _Ireland_ to bring over Forces for that effect, Or who have been
eminently active in contriving of or seducing unto the said Engagement, or
whosoever above the degree of a Leutenant Commanded these parties, that in
promoving of the ends of the said Engagement shed blood within the
Kingdom, either before that Army of Engagers went to _England_, or after
their return, Or who above the degree foresaid Commanded in the late
Rebellion in the North; That none of these be admitted or received to give
satisfaction, but by the Generall Assembly or their Commissioners.

IV. That all the rest of these who have been guilty, or censured as
aforesaid may be received by the Presbyteries where they reside.

V. That all who have been guilty as aforsaid, before their receiving to
the Covenant, shall make a Solemn publick Acknowledgement in such matter,
and before such Congregations as the Commission of the Generall Assembly
or Presbyteries _respective_ shall prescribe, according to the degree of
their offence and scandall given.

VI. That none of the foresaid Persons be admitted, or received as Elders
in any Judicatories of the Kirk, but according to the Act of the Generall
Assembly of the last of _August 1647._ against complyers of the first
Classe.

And because many have heretofore made shew and profession of their
Repentance, who were not convinced of their guiltinesse nor humbled for
the same, but did thereafter return with the dog to the vomit,