_Deliver me from the combined strength of those, who have so much of the Serpents subtilty, that they forget the Doves Innocency._ _Though hand joyn in hand, yet let them not prevail against my Soul, to the betraying of my Conscience and Honour._ _Thou, O Lord, canst turn the hearts of those Parties in both Nations, as thou didst the men of_ Judah _and ISRAEL, to restore_ David _with as much loyal zeal, as they did with inconstancy and eagernesse pursue him._ _Preserve the love of thy truth and uprightness in me, and I shall not despair of My Subjects affections returning towards me._ _Thou canst soon cause the overflowing Seas to ebbe, and retire back again to the bounds which thou hast appointed for them._ _O My God, I trust in thee; let me not be ashamed; let not my enemies triumph over me._ _Let them be ashamed who transgress without a cause; let them be turned back that persecute my soul._ _Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait on thee O Lord._ _Redeem thy Church, O God, out of all its Troubles._ * * * * * _14. Upon the Covenant._ The _Presbyterian Scots_ are not to be hired at the ordinary rate of Auxiliaries; nothing will induce them to engage, till those that call them in, have pawned their Souls to them, by a Solemn League and Covenant. Where many engines of religious and fair pretensions are brought chiefly to batter or rase Episcopacy: This they make the grand evil Spirit, which with other Imps purposely added, to make it more odious, & terrible to the Vulgar, must by so solemn a charm & exorcism be cast out of this Church, after more then a thousand years possession here, from the first plantation of Christianity in this Island, and an universal prescription of time and practice in all other Churches since the Apostles times till this last Century. But no Antiquity must plead for it; Presbytery like a young Heir, thinks the Father hath lived long enough, & impatient not to be in the Bishops chair and authority (though Lay-men go away with the Revenus) all art is used to sink Episcopacy, and lanch Presbytery in _England_; which was lately boyed up in _Scotland_ by the late artifice of a Covenant.