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Let your Scotch-Britans, so insist upon
Their interest, that, nothing may be done,
Against their Brethrens rights; and, so preserve
Their Leauges, that willfully, they do not swerve
From any Branch thereof; and let them so
Observe the Covenant, as men that know
The letter of it, or, a circumstance,
Is not to be pursued to th'advance,
Of any sense or practise, which may lame
The essence, and intentions of the same.
For, if they make the letter to extend,
Beyond the true intentions, and the end
Of what was covenanted; and, so weaken
That interest for which the same was taken,
They are deceivers, and worse hypocrites
Then were of old, the cunning Gibeonites.
Their interest, that, nothing may be done,
Against their Brethrens rights; and, so preserve
Their Leauges, that willfully, they do not swerve
From any Branch thereof; and let them so
Observe the Covenant, as men that know
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Is not to be pursued to th'advance,
Of any sense or practise, which may lame
The essence, and intentions of the same.
For, if they make the letter to extend,
Beyond the true intentions, and the end
Of what was covenanted; and, so weaken
That interest for which the same was taken,
They are deceivers, and worse hypocrites
Then were of old, the cunning Gibeonites.
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