AS the Lord hath been pleased to keep & preserve His Interest in this Land, by the Testimonies of some faithful witnesses from the beginning: So in our day, some have not been wanting, who through greatest hazards have added their Testimonies to these who have gone before them, by suffering death, banishment, torturings, forfaultries, Imprisonments, & what not, from a perfidious & cruel Adversary to the Church & Kingdome of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Land. Therefore, we owning the same Interest of Christ, according to the word of the Lord, & the National & solemn League and Covenant, Desire to add our Testimony to the Testimonies of the worthies that have gone before us (though we be unworthy, yet hoping as true members of the Church of Christ in Scotland) And that against all things don