The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and / Solemn League and Covenant / With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They / Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared / With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The / Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia, / October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of / the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and / Positions Respectively
PHILADELPHIA 1880.
The Reformed Presbytery, at a meeting in Philadelphia, October 6th 1880, Resolved , That another edition of the Auchensaugh Deed be published, and appointed the undersigned a committee to attend to this business with all convenient speed.
We have thus attempted by an induction of particulars, as concisely as we could, to point out existing opposition to our Covenanted Reformation, by various parties who assail the British Covenants directly, or by a first assault upon the Auchensaugh Bond, would reach a fatal stroke at the Covenants themselves. We believe with our predecessors that those who reject the Auchensaugh Renovation, by logical necessity will relinquish the Covenants themselves.
The reader may be assured that neither we nor the Reformed Presbytery, whose committee we are, claim Papal infallibility or Christian perfection; nor do we ask implicit faith in any uninspired documents. But we sincerely believe ourselves that the Auchensaugh Renovation and the Bond, to which the foregoing statements are prefixed, will be found on examination to be sound, faithful, and in nothing contrary to the word of God.
FOOTNOTES:
This gentleman does not seem to know that infidels use similar argument against Christianity. Or, did he never read— I came not to send peace on the earth, but a sword. His logic also is as faulty as his theology— non causa pro causa .
On what principle does this minister dispense the ordinance of baptism to subjects in their minority? Is baptism a mere ceremony, involving no obligation upon the children of believers? Gen. xvii: 14.
No presumption , when graciously invited to do so. Is. lvi: 4, 6, 11. This teaching tends to the subversion of social order—the moral order of the universe. 2 Pet. ii: 10.
THE NATIONAL COVENANT AND SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT, WITH THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SINS AND ENGAGEMENT TO DUTIES: AS THEY WERE RENEWED AT AUCHENSAUGH, NEAR DOUGLAS, 24th JULY, 1712, WITH ACCOMMODATION TO THE (THEN) PRESENT TIMES.
Reformed Presbytery of North America
THE
AUCHENSAUGH RENOVATION
NATIONAL COVENANT AND SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT;
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF SINS AND ENGAGEMENT TO DUTIES,
REFORMED PRESBYTERY,
PREFACE.
THE AUCHENSAUGH RENOVATION.
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
ACT OF COVENANT RENOVATION,
AGREED UPON AT PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 8, 1880,
REFORMED PRESBYTERY,
COVENANT RENOVATION.
PREFACE.
CONFESSION OF PUBLIC SINS.
ACT OF ADHERENCE TO OUR COVENANTS. NATIONAL AND SOLEMN LEAGUE; AS ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT TIME.