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tion of such whose eminency in gifts, grace,
place, & wayes of improovement doth give us
cause to honour them, as the instruments in
Gods hand of our publicke weale, & whom wee
acknowledge as the greatest publicke pledge of
our future prosperity & tranquility.
It is also to be comemorated, to the praise of
God's past goodnesse with this people in their
first perregrinations, yt he led them forth, not
only by the hands of Moses, but of Aaron ; we
meane that first ancient & reva ministry whom
God hath signally ouned & honored before the
world, as the instruments of the transportation
of the arke of the couchant, (viz*,)the presence
of God in his holy ordinances, as it hath binn
setled in a way of gospell order.
These things being premised & duely con-
sidered, wee solemnly & sincerely professe that
it is the present & important concernment of
our publick weale, both civil & religious, faith-
fully & ffully to oune, assert, hold, & maintejne
our first fundamentall interest, (vizt,) our stand-
ing vnder Gods couenant as his couenant peo-
ple, & the whole divine right of that couenant