Notes on a Unique Copy of the Solemn League and Covenant of 1643

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Chiswick Press, 1643 - 25 sivua
 

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Sivu 17 - God, endeavour in our several places and callings, the preservation of the reformed religion in the Church of Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline and government, according to 'the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed Churches...
Sivu 9 - Laud (who fpake as he would have it) moving the king to declare it to be his will, that there mould be a liturgy in this church, his majefty commanded the bifhops to go about the forming of it (u).
Sivu 22 - Say to Duchray, who is my cousin as well as your own, that I am not dead, but a captive in Fairyland, and only one chance remains for my liberation. When the posthumous child, of which my wife has been delivered since my disappearance, shall be brought to baptism, I will appear in the room, when, if Duchray shall throw over my head the knife or dirk which he holds in his hand, I may be restored to society ; but if this...
Sivu 12 - Church at Edinburgh that it was first received, on February 28, 1638. The aged Earl of Sutherland was the first to sign his name. Then the whole congregation followed. Then it was laid on the flat grave-stone still preserved in the church-yard. Men and women crowded to add their names. Some wept aloud, others wrote their names in their own blood ; others added after their names "till death.
Sivu 23 - I am not dead, but a captive in Fairyland; and only one chance remains for my liberation. When the posthumous child, of which my wife has been delivered since my disappearance, shall be brought to baptism, I will appear in the room, when, if Duchray shall throw over my head the knife or dirk which he holds in his hand, I may be restored to society; but if this is neglected, I am lost for ever.
Sivu 12 - For hours they signed, till every corner of the parchment was filled, and only room left for their initials, and the shades of night alone checked the continual flow. From Greyfriars' church-yard it spread to the whole of Scotland.
Sivu 6 - ... in their oun caufe. It was his duety, faid he, as well to fee them reformed, as it was theirs to urge him and the Nobility to reforme themfelves. In no point was he fo earneft in as in this. In end, his Majefty praifeth God that he was born in fuch a time, as in the time...
Sivu 17 - Anabaptist and other independent sectaries, and though they seem to desire an Uniformity of Church Government with our Kingdom of Scotland, do no more intend, and are as far from allowing, the Church Government established there, or indeed any Church Government whatsoever, as they are from consenting to the Episcopal.
Sivu 14 - Lent, fuch perfons as flood convifted of notorious fin were put to open penance, and punifhed in this world, that their fouls might be faved in the day of the Lord ; and that others, admonifhed by their example, might be the more afraid to offend.
Sivu 17 - I. That we fhall fincerely, really and conftantly, through the grace of God, endeavour, in our feveral places and callings, the prefervation of the reformed religion in the church of Scotland, in doctrine, worfhip, difcipline and government, againft our common enemies...

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