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up their Right hands bare, and then afterwards to ſubſcribe it ſeverally by writing their names (or their marks, to which their names are to be added) in a parchment Roll, or a Book, wherinto the Covenant is to be inſerted, purpoſely provided for that end, and kept as a Record in the Pariſh.
XIIII.
That the aſſembly of Divines do prepare an Exhortation for the better taking of the Covenant: And that the ſaid Exhortation and the Declaration of the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, joyned in the Armies, for the vindication and defence of their Religion, Liberties and Lawes, againſt the Popiſh Prelaticall and Malignant partie, and paſſed the 30th. of Ianuary laſt, be publikely read, when the Covenant is read, according to the fourth and ſixth Articles: And that a ſufficient number of the copies of the ſaid Declaration be ſent by the perſons appointed to ſend the true copies of the ſaid Covenant, in the firſt and ſecond Articles.
