tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46257278139060638362024-03-13T22:27:09.493-05:00For Christ's Crown & Covenant!In honor of the brave and noble Scottish CovenantersAngela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.comBlogger111125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-37573358269402036362023-11-23T08:23:00.000-06:002023-11-23T08:47:22.943-06:00Reformed Covenanter: 'Alexander Henderson on the original Covenanters’ respect for the King’s majesty'<div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4L0C4MOQS09E3SXZP2AS1QfFcrcKu1YkWpWV2Edkk5psPfeCVDxNbjqTaJW6youLpMbT4cxV30To_EilJU7_j-UYotJrkKg0xZuXdG9qDv-N-SZROoCP9XiSoAxZ7lNMVsB9CJ4pIZpYQgbWS1FZpOw-_7N9hYMU9i0rXw2HcZtXrQb2qn8dYTlmi4vFX/s276/alexanderhenderson-e1606631874188.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="193" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4L0C4MOQS09E3SXZP2AS1QfFcrcKu1YkWpWV2Edkk5psPfeCVDxNbjqTaJW6youLpMbT4cxV30To_EilJU7_j-UYotJrkKg0xZuXdG9qDv-N-SZROoCP9XiSoAxZ7lNMVsB9CJ4pIZpYQgbWS1FZpOw-_7N9hYMU9i0rXw2HcZtXrQb2qn8dYTlmi4vFX/w448-h640/alexanderhenderson-e1606631874188.webp" width="448" /></a></div><br />Originally published at <a href="https://reformedcovenanter.wordpress.com/2023/11/23/alexander-henderson-on-the-original-covenanters-respect-for-the-kings-majesty/">Alexander Henderson on the original Covenanters’ respect for the King’s majesty | <i>Reformed Covenanter</i>: </a></b></div><br /> As they have done and suffered much for vindicating and maintaining the liberty of their Religion, that what belongeth unto God may be rendered unto God; So do they desire, that according to the rule of righteousness, each man have his own, and above all men, That the things which are <i>Caesar’s</i> be rendered unto him, and to give him that which is God’s were a wronging both of God and <i>Caesar</i>. They have ever been willing to taxes and to pay subsidies above that which they were able. They join with the inward reverence of their hearts, external honour and obedience in all things lawful.<br /><br />They pour forth their prayers to God in private and public, for all blessings spiritual and temporal upon his Royal Person and Government, and upon his Progeny; and for the same blessings upon the Queen’s Majesty, especially that God by his Spirit would give unto her the knowledge and love of the truth. They long for her conversion as an happiness to herself, and a means of great happiness to the King, to their Children, and to all their Subjects.<br /><br />And, that the Lord may answer their prayers, they think it incumbent to the Church of <i>England</i>, nor can any bond whatsoever oblige them to the contrary, to use the best and most powerful means, and would most willingly in all humility, love and respect, join their endeavours for that blessed end. And as they thus present their best desires and prayers, so are they ready to sacrifice their lives to God for his Majesty’s good, and in their hearts are grieved that their loyalty, which they account their no small glory, should have been called in question.<br /><br />Neither is this all. But moreover they do acknowledge that his Majesty, as supreme Magistrate, hath not only charge over the Common-wealth, but doth watch and hath inspection over the Church and Church matters, but in a civil way. <i>Vos Episcopi in Ecclesia</i> (saith <i>Constantine</i>) <i>Ego extra Ecclesiam Episcopus à Deo constitutus sum</i>. And therefore that he is, by his high calling and place, <i>Custos utrius{que}</i> <i>tabulae</i>, to command the precepts of the first table as well as of the second table to be obeyed: That he is <i>Vindex Religionis</i> by his sword, as the Spirit of God in Scripture is Iudex, and the Church is Index: That he hath power to turn the constitutions of the Church into Laws, and to confirm them by the civil sanction in Parliament: That he may constrain all his subjects to do duty in matters of religion, and may punish the transgressors: That when debates arise about Religion, he hath power to call the Assemblies of the Church, to be present and civilly preside in them, and to examine their constitutions, that he may discern of them both as a Christian caring for his own soul, and as supreme Magistrate watching over his people: and that he may do all things which can prove him to be a kind and careful nursing Father.<br /><br />They account all that is vomited out to the contrary, [as, that they liked Anarchy better then Monarchy, and that they would turn a Kingdom into a democracy,] to be but the fictions and calumnies of the malicious enemies of God and his truth; not unlike the lies which were devised against the Christians of old: their consciences, their words, writings, and actions, even then when the world did put the worst constructions upon them, were witnesses of the integrity of their hearts.<br /><br />They do still hold that there can be no antipathy betwixt one ordinance of God and another. By him <i>Princes do reign</i>, and he hath also appointed the Officers and Government of his own house. They do desire nothing more then that the Son of God may reign, and that with and under the Son of God, the King may command, and they, as good subjects to Christ and the King, may obey.<br /><br />Alexander Henderson, <i>The government and order of the Church of Scotland</i> (Edinburgh, 1641), pp 65-68.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpulpXcxQykb_-V-X7oPMnKUcXioov_MCq_fC8ynSo9wklDsQbJtuXUZhaefqRJ9Bgedbyhxlcx69QAf0pU3yIXTJr0esaW-N84g3pnd6-s8EuSNxBW6GV5y0pxAtFR2eZaflUgiKcIJvlcSpHvT1GFb2YySvPMSSm32zIiJpa9Dst3UsELwaPII50acn-/s285/blue-banner2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="220" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpulpXcxQykb_-V-X7oPMnKUcXioov_MCq_fC8ynSo9wklDsQbJtuXUZhaefqRJ9Bgedbyhxlcx69QAf0pU3yIXTJr0esaW-N84g3pnd6-s8EuSNxBW6GV5y0pxAtFR2eZaflUgiKcIJvlcSpHvT1GFb2YySvPMSSm32zIiJpa9Dst3UsELwaPII50acn-/s1600/blue-banner2.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-81933416754091348582023-10-23T13:30:00.012-05:002023-10-23T21:31:17.174-05:00Recommended Book: Sketches of the Covenanters by JC McFeeters<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZWmLbMiKH1rwNNPei8-uqpacNxDAJBCJpu_44Wp6LtudYp7SlEzm0MlGoBKgdh5e2XR3Btqza37JQhvoCfU6iqtEKhBmuJyqN1tXDjBsqO1Si_XoAGAKYrT2MBZVnKXxaVmmDiVmcxpMPv42y0HHL16nUSFDBgvmXIQLp36IByuZxZe8Smfs4c135snyO/s738/738px-A_Covenanters_Conventicle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="738" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZWmLbMiKH1rwNNPei8-uqpacNxDAJBCJpu_44Wp6LtudYp7SlEzm0MlGoBKgdh5e2XR3Btqza37JQhvoCfU6iqtEKhBmuJyqN1tXDjBsqO1Si_XoAGAKYrT2MBZVnKXxaVmmDiVmcxpMPv42y0HHL16nUSFDBgvmXIQLp36IByuZxZe8Smfs4c135snyO/w640-h520/738px-A_Covenanters_Conventicle.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><i><br /></i><p></p><p><i>Sketches of the Covenanters</i> by J.C. McFeeters was originally published in 1913 and is now in the Public Domain. </p><p></p><p>This was one of the first books I read regarding the Scottish Covenanters and the killing times in Scotland.</p><p>J.C. McFeeters captured my imagination as I could feel the tender love of the Covenanters for their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ while picturing the mossy moors, hillsides and caves where these brave, noble followers of Christ were forced to hide in order to worship God according to their conscience.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This book presents a touching and historical picture of a cruel period in history when King Charles I betrayed Scotland's trust and tried to exert himself as king over both state and church. It covers both the political and religious aspects of freedom the Covenanters lived and died for. I encourage all students of the Bible and Church history to read it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AJ-VexzlKjWH0VW4DC5bXtI67JZFxny1kgRpldur_EEiJLTls5Z9wx9c_AVXr9DQWp89OlPaZHZQm30i3NqVrovTvghkc-952rXZj0TtTX_N9xLkkMVoG_E0rmvT5MJf6L1LNSVvtX2EHbWoYun-V2NgWOdB6sYbodvJ22hZ7p-oks_hPm2VewXQ3xpS/s466/917y1KWO1tL._SY466_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="311" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7AJ-VexzlKjWH0VW4DC5bXtI67JZFxny1kgRpldur_EEiJLTls5Z9wx9c_AVXr9DQWp89OlPaZHZQm30i3NqVrovTvghkc-952rXZj0TtTX_N9xLkkMVoG_E0rmvT5MJf6L1LNSVvtX2EHbWoYun-V2NgWOdB6sYbodvJ22hZ7p-oks_hPm2VewXQ3xpS/w268-h400/917y1KWO1tL._SY466_.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sketches-Covenanters-J-C-McFeeters-ebook/dp/B00849BAF8/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1698084265&sr=8-1" style="text-align: left;">Amazon.com: Sketches of the Covenanters eBook : McFeeters, J. C.: Kindle Store</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;">This book can also be found at </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/sketchesofcovena0000mcfe" style="text-align: left;">Sketches of the Covenanters : McFeeters, J. C. (James Calvin), 1848-1928 : Internet Archive</a><span style="text-align: left;">.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p></p>Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-32197182525084195062023-07-27T08:30:00.004-05:002023-07-27T08:40:04.258-05:00A Wee Woman with a Stool!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg99wY_43yAz91V1TtK48BXrzvR3WiRChK9d_e84FDN3IYO3Lzu7Q-4xRwXQoXpNXHwzcSFOS8nkPoEwuvknHh6yDytn9yVFk8kOCF_yv2DkgveJqSje3J1w8Cldm1qiqaZ5L14v7YAHAhhRJDUiNQ7943StZcusN3aQ_NeJB4Fhs4r0UcCR_GmnzXUTMRc/s250/cd-cover-jenny-geddes.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="250" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg99wY_43yAz91V1TtK48BXrzvR3WiRChK9d_e84FDN3IYO3Lzu7Q-4xRwXQoXpNXHwzcSFOS8nkPoEwuvknHh6yDytn9yVFk8kOCF_yv2DkgveJqSje3J1w8Cldm1qiqaZ5L14v7YAHAhhRJDUiNQ7943StZcusN3aQ_NeJB4Fhs4r0UcCR_GmnzXUTMRc/w400-h400/cd-cover-jenny-geddes.webp" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: start;"><a href="https://shows.acast.com/srp/episodes/a-wee-woman-and-a-stool">Listen to the PODCAST HERE</a>.</b></div><br /><blockquote>Geddes had been sitting on a three legged stool, and she rushed to the front of the church and flung her stool at the Dean. Soon others joined in, and the riot began. The protest spilled over into the street, general disorder ensued and the whole service was abandoned, as the dignitaries fled to safely.</blockquote><div>On the 3rd Sunday of July, 1637, a riot occurred in the Scottish capital city of Edinburgh, and the roots of the riot lay in a church Service in St Giles Cathedral, that ancient building that stands majestically on the Royal Mile.<br /><br />Charles I was the second of the Stuart kings to straddle the thrones of England and Scotland, having ascended to the throne after his father, James 1st of England and 6th of Scotland. Charles was totally convinced that he was divinely appointed, to rule not just the nation, but to rule the church. He had a problem. In Scotland, although the populace were generally supportive of the monarchy, the influence of John Knox and the Presbyterian form of church rule that he introduced had now taken hold, and the church was governed by elders, as taught in the Bible. The elders ruled the local churches, and formed themselves into presbyteries, and held an annual general assembly to regulate the affairs of the church. There was no place in the Scottish church for Royal decrees to be proclaimed and enforced.<div><br /></div><div>For Charles and his advisors, this was a potentially dangerous situation. To govern the people as he wanted, Charles needed the church to be reflective of his own beliefs and policies. Since those were the days before mass media and instant news commentary, what the people heard from the pulpit was usually what shaped their beliefs and their behaviour. Just as the government today uses the media to influence society, and shape behaviour, – so Charles used the pulpits. And Charles much preferred rule to be from the top down rather than from the bottom up, with the local parishes ruled by an appointed curate or priest, who was himself ruled by a bishop, and him by an archbishop, with the king himself as the divinely appointed ruler of the church, at the head, keeping the whole ecclesiastical body in order, and so ensuring a compliant and – in his view, orderly society.<br /><br /><b>Continue here: <a href="https://saltyscrivener.uk/2023/07/27/a-wee-woman-with-a-stool/">A Wee Woman with a Stool! | The Salty Scrivener</a></b><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-43106322026120717822023-06-03T14:58:00.006-05:002023-07-27T08:33:46.842-05:00The 1680 Battle of Aird's Moss and the Covenanter's Memorial, East Ayrshire<p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VK_JOCxL38M" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><b>Direct Link: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK_JOCxL38M">The 1680 Battle of Aird's Moss and the Covenanter's Memorial, East Ayrshire - YouTube</a></b></p>Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-50324913615175747032022-11-28T12:54:00.001-06:002022-11-28T12:56:22.165-06:00Original Covenanter Eschatology: Historicist and Postmillennial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjXtI0V9KwvT4Qjb0ZNO3YgWVfSKiu93lRFJjcTrfM47QbKxP3M2FgA1aiTa8eYrWm8uDRcL79jEtF4e1c7G5mcRgaF-lqxCP_ukjus_fU2BbM_LUekOxCL4Mgar3nYruUrbp8__AOXLseX6sHm3hhhpinEEWSup5cfY0wJNi6tHRpnEEnY6OBHd5jA/s583/Battle%20at%20Drumclog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="583" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdjXtI0V9KwvT4Qjb0ZNO3YgWVfSKiu93lRFJjcTrfM47QbKxP3M2FgA1aiTa8eYrWm8uDRcL79jEtF4e1c7G5mcRgaF-lqxCP_ukjus_fU2BbM_LUekOxCL4Mgar3nYruUrbp8__AOXLseX6sHm3hhhpinEEWSup5cfY0wJNi6tHRpnEEnY6OBHd5jA/w640-h390/Battle%20at%20Drumclog.jpg" title="Battle of Drumclog - http://www.covenanter.org.uk/drumclog_battle.html" width="640" /></a></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><a href="https://gentlereformation.com/2022/11/26/changing-eschatology-in-the-rpcna-part-1/">Changing Eschatology in the RPCNA (Part 1)</a></b></h2><p><b><a href="https://gentlereformation.com/2022/11/26/changing-eschatology-in-the-rpcna-part-1/" target="_blank">By Robert Kelbe - Posted at <i>Gentle Reformation</i></a></b></p><i>This is the first in a two-part series on the change in eschatology within the RPCNA. The first part will explore the postmillenialism prevalent until the middle of the 20th century. The second part will explore the change to amillenialism under the influence of J. G. Vos and the Blue Banner.</i><div><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;">Introduction: The 1807 Testimony</h3><br />In 1807, the Reformed Presbyterian Church, now the RPCNA, published its first Testimony called Reformation Principles Exhibited which had been approved by the Presbytery the year before. Roughly following the chapter divisions of the Westminster Confession of Faith, this original testimony of the RPCNA adds a final chapter on “Testimony-Bearing”. The last paragraph of that last chapter states that<br />The church may not recede from a more clear and particular testimony to a more general and evasive one but the witnesses must proceed in finishing their testimony rendering it more pointed and complete until God shall according to his promise overthrow the empire of darkness and introduce the millennial state in which the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.<a href="https://gentlereformation.com/2022/11/26/changing-eschatology-in-the-rpcna-part-1/#_ftn1">[1]</a><br /><br />The reference to “the millennial state” is a reference to the standard postmillennial Covenanter eschatology which was dominant in the RPCNA until after the Second World War. According to postmillennialism, Christ comes after the “thousand years” of Revelation 20 during which Satan would be bound. This paper will trace the change from a postmillennial to an amillennial consensus in the RPCNA under the influence of J. G. Vos as the editor of The Blue Banner from 1946 to 1979, culminating in a new 1980 Testimony which, in its statement on eschatology, receded from a more clear and particular testimony to a more general and evasive one.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://gentlereformation.com/2022/11/26/changing-eschatology-in-the-rpcna-part-1/" target="_blank">Continue here...</a></div>Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-16133672196747808372022-06-30T09:15:00.005-05:002022-06-30T09:16:41.276-05:00'For Christ's Crown and Covenant'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqIddTa2-QeA0J4SffNOaxVNHtLlmQwdnWUqQXyAdCM5h-EhGwvwdv3_vH7R3tZ_D9wyeEJz_sld32oI9HJANppl5AHV7ihCBuWj63jTZXnN07khmqWwUDA2xIBQL3h6KSlZh1ZNdtr5wTXhggNrFLM5o5iqi2EhkzCUvEa5ab74v2bdMvsrsZwVvUw/s400/rpccenter-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="400" height="614" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijqIddTa2-QeA0J4SffNOaxVNHtLlmQwdnWUqQXyAdCM5h-EhGwvwdv3_vH7R3tZ_D9wyeEJz_sld32oI9HJANppl5AHV7ihCBuWj63jTZXnN07khmqWwUDA2xIBQL3h6KSlZh1ZNdtr5wTXhggNrFLM5o5iqi2EhkzCUvEa5ab74v2bdMvsrsZwVvUw/w640-h614/rpccenter-2.jpg" title="https://www.rpc.org/" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><p><b><a href="https://gentlereformation.com/2022/06/17/for-christs-crown-and-covenant/" target="_blank"> By Warren Peel - Posted at <i>Gentle Reformation:</i></a></b></p><p><i>Published June 17, 2022</i></p>This week the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland held its 211th annual meeting of Synod, when all the ministers and representative ruling elders of each of the congregations in Ireland met together to review the work and finances of the church. This year was special however because on Wednesday afternoon we held a service of covenant renewal.<br /><br />This biblical practice of covenanting is something that the Reformed Presbyterian Church has always engaged in throughout its history, particularly at times of revival or times of crisis (hence the name ‘Covenanter,’ often used interchangeably of our denomination). We see the church in Scripture periodically responding to God’s covenant of grace by renewing her covenant with the Lord, recommitting herself to be loyal to the demands of his Word no matter what the cost (e.g. Deut 29; Josh 24; Neh 10). Covenant renewal is an opportunity to nail our colours to the mast, both confessing our sins as a church and pledging our loyalty and love to our covenant Lord.<br /><br />Covenant renewal may sound like a dry legal or commercial transaction, but nothing could be further from the truth. A covenant is a bond of love – the response of a guilty sinner saved by grace who pledges himself to walk in the ways the Lord has set out. As my fellow minister Mark Loughridge has described it, it is a little bit like a man whose wife has gone through a traumatic, life-altering car crash that has left her disabled and incapacitated in all kinds of ways, who wants to renew his marriage vows—to say to his wife and to the world ‘Our circumstances may have changed but my love for you has not and will not’.<br /><br />That’s what lay behind our Synod’s covenant renewal this week. We recognise that the circumstances in which we serve the Lord have changed: our nation has departed even further from the standards of God’s holy Law by legalising the murder of the unborn, by its utter disregard for the Lord’s Day, by its redefinition of God’s institution of marriage, by its profound confusion of manhood and womanhood, by the failure of our fellow citizens to humble themselves and seek God in repentance in the face of a pandemic that has devastated the economy and the welfare of our nation. The moral and religious landscape of Ireland has changed almost out of all recognition in the space of a few decades—but it makes no difference to our covenant commitment and loyalty and love for the Lord Jesus Christ. By the grace of God and the empowering of his Holy Spirit, we will serve him gladly, faithfully and steadfastly no matter what the cost in these days of declension.<br /><br />After the preaching of the Word and a period of corporate prayer of adoration, thanksgiving and confession, the members of Synod came forward to sign their names to the covenant document. You may be interested to read our solemn undertaking and so I give it here in full. May the Lord give us the strength to pay the vows we have made to him in the presence of all his people!<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://gentlereformation.com/2022/06/17/for-christs-crown-and-covenant/" target="_blank"><b>Continue reading here...</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>See also: <a href="https://www.rpc.org/">RPC – Reformed Presbyterian Church of Ireland</a></b></div>Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-34579967164392342282020-11-29T15:48:00.003-06:002023-07-27T08:34:04.693-05:00The Battle of Rullion Green<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjITJDrhpYunfS76IDayFA86hlbUpvT7TjrXqxQkvS8lQXD4csjtGAVTiQDM1dIvD659UFwNcFuEFb9t_uBwg8955FYT2uki17afOatlMDHS1z4xdxxpXbNOHJRxukQuurJkGz9blooIOp_/s1024/1024px-The_Dalry_Covenanter_Sculpture%252C_The_Burning_Bush_%2528geograph_3884568%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjITJDrhpYunfS76IDayFA86hlbUpvT7TjrXqxQkvS8lQXD4csjtGAVTiQDM1dIvD659UFwNcFuEFb9t_uBwg8955FYT2uki17afOatlMDHS1z4xdxxpXbNOHJRxukQuurJkGz9blooIOp_/w640-h426/1024px-The_Dalry_Covenanter_Sculpture%252C_The_Burning_Bush_%2528geograph_3884568%2529.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Image by Billy McCrorie - <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rullion_Green" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></i></div><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://thisday.pcahistory.org/2020/11/november-28-the-battle-of-rullion-green-2/" target="_blank">Posted at <i>This Day in Presbyterian History:</i></a></b></p><b>The Time Was Not Ripe</b><div><b><br /></b>This mysterious phrase is found on a stone memorial on the grounds of the Battle of Rullion Green which is located eight miles south of Edinburgh, Scotland. It tells the tragic story of defeat in the first battle of the Scot Covenanters—Presbyterians all—against the English government of Charles II.<br /><br />This battle was part of the Killing Times era of Scottish Covenanters. In essence, the Anglican government had declared war against the Presbyterians of Scotland, asking for unconditional surrender on their part. Their pastors—some 400 of them—had been ejected from their pulpits, their manses, and their parishes. When some of them began to preach to their people in the fields and moors, that whole scene became a dangerous practice, with fines leveled against the attenders, and imprisonment and death as well. All that was needed was a spark to ignite the smoldering indignation of the Scottish people of God.<br /><br />That spark occurred on November 13, 1666 when an old man by the name of John Grier was accosted by the soldiers of the English government. Unable to pay a fine for his absence from his church with its Anglican curate in the pulpit, he was beaten severely that day. Four local Covenanters happened upon the scene, and tried first to reason with the soldiers. When that failed, words turned to actions, and one of the soldiers was shot. Other villagers joined in the fray and took the solders prisoners. At this point, the Covenanters numbered ninety people.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://thisday.pcahistory.org/2020/11/november-28-the-battle-of-rullion-green-2/" target="_blank">Read more...</a></div>Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-10186339951917734472020-08-10T07:25:00.003-05:002020-08-10T07:27:24.830-05:00'Character and Claims of the Scottish Covenanters' by William Symington<b>Read by Pastor Brian Schwertley - Posted at <i>Sermon Audio</i>:</b><br />
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1/4. You've heard of the Scottish Reformation of 1560, but what was the Second Reformation? This video documents a powerful movement that would take the Church in Scotland to a more extensive reformation according to God’s Word. What lessons can we apply from this today?<br />
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2/4. <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNJTBed6vtA" target="_blank">Scotland's Forgotten Revival</a></b><br />
This was the period of greatest revival throughout the whole nation that Scotland has ever experienced. It went deeper, further and lasted longer than any other. Let's learn the lessons we can apply today as we see what God did in great power in the past. <br />
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3/4 . <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvybHWnanmQ" target="_blank">Scotland's Forgotten Suffering</a></b><br />
Heavy fines, imprisonment, torture and execution. Frequently, and conveniently ignored, this was the period of Scotland's Greatest Persecution. A time when faithful Christians would inevitably suffer in continuing to follow God's Word. In a time of increasing hostility to Christian values, there are vital lessons for us today from this awful but heroic period.<br />
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4/4. <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LROr3bHOvf8" target="_blank">Scotland's Forgotten Foundations</a></b><br />
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Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-60203650832174023682019-09-05T09:11:00.000-05:002019-09-05T09:13:35.416-05:00Covenanter Slaves<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Twenty-eight Presbyterians signed a final covenant on the eve of their departure from Leith, Scotland in early September, 1685. It said in part,<br />
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It is not known to countless Christians today that many Presbyterians were carried from their beloved land of Scotland to the shores of this America, not as free immigrants, but as slaves...<br />
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<li><b><a href="https://graceandtruthrpc.org/2018/07/history-of-the-church-the-reformed-presbyterian-church-in-america/" target="_blank">History of the Church: The Reformed Presbyterian Church in America</a> (Grace and Truth Reformed Presbyterian Church)</b></li>
<li><b><a href="https://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/white_slavery.htm" target="_blank">White Slavery, what the Scots already know</a> (Electric Scotland)</b></li>
<li><b><a href="http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2015/12/december-10-3/" target="_blank">Covenanters in the Crown of London</a> (This Day in Presbyterian History)</b></li>
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</b>Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-17895377900133413422019-08-26T08:05:00.000-05:002019-08-26T08:22:42.992-05:00Documentary of McLeod's 1802 "Negro Slavery Unjustifiable" by RPTS<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H5H9Ly8g6dk" width="560"></iframe><br />
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Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-43096007637931408482019-06-08T06:53:00.000-05:002019-08-26T08:08:16.583-05:00Understanding the Covenanters<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The young man needed a service project in order to become an Eagle Scout. What Nathaniel Pockras of Ohio eventually chose and finished became a great service not only to the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America ministers and members, but also to historic Presbyterians in general. He printed on-line the 788 pages of the Rev. W. Melancthon Glasgow’s <i>History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church</i>, which was long out of print and extremely rare for any current minister or member to own one.<br />
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Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-91405648083179730862019-05-22T07:12:00.000-05:002019-05-22T07:12:17.055-05:00Lady Caldwell Arrested<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b>A Better Possession, and A Lasting One</b><br />by Rev. David T. Myers<br /><br />Barbara Cunningham had all of the characteristics of a powerful family by her ancestry. But of far more importance than these temporal goods was that her ancestors were all warm supporters of the Protestant Reformation of Scotland.<br /><br />Continuing in that rich biblical tradition, Barbara Cunningham married William Muir of Caldwell in 1657, thus enabling her to be known as Lady Caldwell. Her husband, like her ancestors, was zealous in his adherence to Presbyterianism, and especially to those who had been ejected from their parishes in 1662. Even though it was considered traitorous to do so, he abstained from attending the churches where Anglican priests now were in charge. Cited to appear before the civil authorities to explain his absence, the date was delayed time and again. Of course, this was of the Lord. When Covenanters began to take up arms to defend their faith, William Muir raised a troop of fifty neighbors to ride to the area around Pentland Hills to help their cause. But a force of government troops cut off their approach with the result that the small band was scattered. Forced to hide himself and eventually flee, William Muir eventually made his way to Holland.<br /><br />Soon the weight of the opposition fell upon his wife, Lady Caldwell, and her four children, three of them female. She lost all of her and their property which was given to the general who had fought the Covenanters at Pentland Hills. Lady Caldwell joined her husband in Holland with her family. While there, they were allowed to worship God along with all the other Scottish exiles. In a short while however, her husband died in the faith. Lady Caldwell returned to Scotland with her family, hoping that the length of time being absent would make a difference. But it did not. The property still was in control of the anti-Covenanter forces, even taking the new furniture which Lady Caldwell had bought to make a new home. She was still destitute in her beloved homeland.<div>
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<i>Reformed Presbyterian minister <a href="https://www.logcollegepress.com/authors-mr#/david-mcallister-18351907/">David McAllister’s</a> Poets and Poetry of the Covenant is a worthy homage to the heroic faith of the Scottish Covenanters in verse, which we have highlighted on this blog previously, but its prose introduction should not be overlooked. It is a helpful overview of what the Covenanters stood for, and what inspired so many powerful poetic tributes.</i><br /><br /><br />Let us briefly sketch the leading principles for which the heroes and martyrs of these songs of the Covenant contended: <br /><br /><b>I. The supreme authority of God's Word in all the relations of human life.</b> In the church, as one of their own number said, "they took their pattern, not from Rome, not even from Geneva, but from the blessed Word of God." They held that the state was bound to regulate all its affairs by the same law of ultimate authority. The Bible was to them a national as well as an ecclesiastical law-book. Kings and noblemen and lowlier citizens were all under its obligations in the sphere of political and civil life. And the family, too, needed God's Word, as the daily guide of the domestic circle. The place of the Bible in Covenanter families; the singing of a portion of Bible Psalmody and the reading of a chapter of the Scriptures every morning and evening at the household altar, with the entire membership of the family gathered about, brought all domestic affairs under the acknowledged authority and educative influence of the divine law. Even when the father and the older sons were driven by the blood-hounds of persecution to hidings in dens and caves of the earth, or amid the solitudes of the mountains and moors, the mother or an elder daughter would keep the fire of the household altar brightly burning in the sorrowing yet not darkened home. <br /><br />At the very basis of all this was the recognized right and responsibility of every individual to interpret the divine law for himself. Social bodies had to reach their interpretations for themselves; but no interpretation of God's Word by either church or state could overturn the Protestant principle, or rather the principle of the true Christian religion, that every man must give account of himself to God. But with the authority of God himself acknowledged as supreme for all, in every relation of life, a firm foundation was laid for the balance of liberty and law. Rights of conscience on the one hand, and a just and righteous authority in both church and state, on the other hand, here find their full security. Not the will of any man, pope, or king, or president; not the will of any body of men, presbytery, general assembly, house of commons, house of representatives, or senate; not the will of the millions that make up the sovereign people of the mightiest nation on earth, can be, according to this old Covenanter and Scriptural principle, of supreme and ultimate authority in any of the relations of human life. Church courts and civil legislatures may help wisely and opportunely to interpret and apply the law which God himself has given, and secure its beneficent effects; but over all human legislators is the Divine Lawgiver whose authoritative will is revealed for man's every need in the Holy Scriptures. Only by such a Law and such a Lawgiver can individual and family and church and state be regulated in harmony with each other and for the good of all.<br />
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<br />Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-80147471736958390402019-05-01T08:50:00.000-05:002019-05-01T08:50:24.002-05:00Getting the Kingdom Right<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><a href="https://gentlereformation.com/2019/05/01/getting-the-kingdom-right/" target="_blank">By Jared Olivetti - Posted at <i>Gentle Reformation:</i></a></b><br />
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Ever since I came into the Reformed Presbyterian church twenty years ago, I've been hearing about this <i>kingdom</i>. Though I grew up in reformed churches, the idea of Jesus being the Mediatorial King over the world for the sake of the Father wasn't a significant part of my thinking. But these covenanters, they had this grip on Jesus-as-King and they refused to let it go. And so I was taught the beauty, power and hope of Jesus' kingship. And with that kingship came lots of talk about the kingdom--which makes sense, since Jesus came proclaiming a kingdom and the apostles kept right on preaching that same kingdom.<br /><br />But my speaking about the kingdom was always (and remains to a degree) a little sloppy. I began at some point to talk about "building" the kingdom, thinking I was doing Jesus a favor by getting on board with His project. The problem is that the Bible never speaks this way.<div>
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Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-71856089873016247402019-03-29T08:57:00.000-05:002019-03-29T08:57:57.718-05:005 Minutes in Church History: The Greyfriars Kirkyard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfH2mtHIhXU2Wf1MeQun51GmKQrnG8fGD7ki_4VbV9bFtD9tUeCP3yrR96QTwkv08_vNVqQ6FIGsI3rMbjLNJqHB474nwcaavKr-xrWPN5Dx4SKvQ4DFbH96q0C92nVJV0_kB6GqOrQSlC/s1600/600px-Covenanter_sermon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfH2mtHIhXU2Wf1MeQun51GmKQrnG8fGD7ki_4VbV9bFtD9tUeCP3yrR96QTwkv08_vNVqQ6FIGsI3rMbjLNJqHB474nwcaavKr-xrWPN5Dx4SKvQ4DFbH96q0C92nVJV0_kB6GqOrQSlC/s640/600px-Covenanter_sermon.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<blockquote>"In the museum at Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh, Scotland, there is one of only a few original copies of the National Covenant. The National Covenant was presented there in the kirkyard. It was discussed and signed in front of the pulpit on February 28, 1638..."</blockquote><br />
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Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-80015678867137303632019-02-20T10:18:00.003-06:002019-02-20T10:18:58.273-06:00William Guthrie on the duty of self-denial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lastly, If ye have gotten Christ ye will be much employed about the work of mortification and self-denial. When Jesus comes unto a soul, He works in that soul much self-loathing and self-abhorrence. The soul that hath gotten Christ will say with the apostle, “Those things that I counted gain, I now count loss for Christ.”<br /><br />This leads me to another point of doctrine, which is this: That the soul that is beloved of God, and for whom Christ hath given Himself, is much engaged in the exercise of self-denial. The apostle says not, “That the Lord loved me, and gave Himself for me, on account of anything that was in me;” but, “Christ loved me, and gave Himself for me, even me, who was a persecutor; for me, who was a blasphemer; for me, who was such and such.” How much, then, was this minister, Paul, engaged in the exercise of self-denial?<br /><br />Again, you may observe that the soul that is loved of God, and for whom Christ hath given Himself, will be much in the exercise of mortification; or it is a duty lying on all those who are loved of God, and for whom Christ hath given Himself, to be much engaged in this work of mortification and self-denial. Ye must not think that this is only the work of ministers and men in eminent stations, to deny themselves; no, you have Jesus Christ Himself saying, “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” But that we may come to speak more particularly to the words, there is a threefold self that must be denied.<br /><br />First, Natural self.<br />Secondly, Sinful self. And,<br />Thirdly, Regenerated and renewed self.<div>
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<b><a href="https://www.reformationscotland.org/2015/04/24/7-reasons-to-study-the-bible-with-the-covenanters/" target="_blank">Posted at <i>Reformation Scotland:</i></a></b><br />
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The Second Reformation made a unique contribution to bible study. It produced many simple and practical commentaries on the Bible for everyone. They were brief, plain, practical and above all affordable. They get to the heart of what the Bible means but also to the heart of the reader in a richly devotional way.<br /><br />David Dickson encouraged other ministers to produce this unique series. These expositions are of great value. They were highly commended by C H Spurgeon in his classic survey, Commenting and Commentaries. Some of them explain difficult books like Job, Ecclesiastes and Revelation. Men such as Alexander Nisbet, James Fergusson and George Hutcheson worked hard in this area over many years. They contributed commentaries that together covered large areas of Scripture. In total 44 of the 66 books of the Bible. Four of these commentaries were never published.<br /><br />Dickson followed the example of Robert Rollock who expounded the Scriptures from the pulpit and to university students. As a result, he was able to publish nine commentaries during his lifetime. Dickson’s commentaries were likewise drawn from his expositions in the pulpit or for university students. He published commentaries on 23 books of the Bible. This was partly due to the inability of others due to pressures of work, age or infirmity. He hoped to stir up others whom he regarded as “more able” to engage in the same work.<div>
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Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-63194772630201883842018-11-09T10:48:00.001-06:002018-11-09T10:48:37.187-06:00The Unconquered Mind: The Story Of George Gillespie<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pYwFdWOTYEA" width="560"></iframe><br />
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<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7cJQ0X3nRxfmdg2m1E661w">Stories Of The Covenant</a></b><div>
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George Gillespie became one of most clever people in the whole of Britain. What was the secret of his ability to use such convincing arguments? How could he use this gift to the glory of God? Find out by watching The Unconquered Mind: The Story of George Gillespie.<br /><br />YouTube Link: <a href="https://youtu.be/pYwFdWOTYEA">https://youtu.be/pYwFdWOTYEA</a><br />
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Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-83692201553649218182018-08-14T12:06:00.000-05:002018-08-14T12:06:51.228-05:00The Testimony of Thomas Stoddart Executed in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket on 12 August, 1685 <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://drmarkjardine.wordpress.com/category/by-name/thomas-stoddart-d-1685/">Thomas Stoddart</a> was executed in the Grassmarket on 12 August, 1685. <a href="https://drmarkjardine.wordpress.com/category/by-name/matthew-bryce-carmunock/">Matthew Bryce</a>, <a href="https://drmarkjardine.wordpress.com/category/by-name/david-law-d-1685/">David Law</a> and <a href="https://drmarkjardine.wordpress.com/category/by-name/gavin-russell-d-1685/">Gavin Russell</a> were hanged alongside him.<br /><br />‘Men, Brethren, And Fathers, Hearken,—I being to take my farewell of the world, I leave this my dying testimony, according to the form of the Christians of old; I having like the same ground for it that he had who used that word; that was Stephen; who was condemned, because he spoke blasphemous words against the law and the temple. So, because I will not adhere to, nor approve of their laws, which now have power in their hands, they condemned me to die, though they could not witness so much against me for speaking against them, and they never essayed to prove the sentence upon me, which now I shall study in a word to give you an account of.<br /><br />And first, I received my sentence of banishment, and then notwithstanding of that I was committed to the justices to abide the assize, and they passed upon me the sentence of death, for no other cause as I can give, but because I could not give such an answer to their questions about the government and the king’s authority (as they called it), as could satisfy their lusts, and that I durst not disown the <a href="https://drmarkjardine.wordpress.com/declarations-1684-against-intelligencers/">Apologetic Declaration [Against Intelligencers of November, 1684</a>]; and so I humbly conceive it will come to this as the ground of my suffering, that I could not own Christ’s enemies nor the power that they have taken to themselves against Him, nor disown Christ’s friends and their actings as they required; and therefore I am sentenced, albeit I owned as much of the authority as any Christian can be obliged to; that is to say, lawful authority according to the Word of God; but I desire to be submissive to His will who hath called me to this, and to have high thoughts of Him. I cannot get words to set Him out, but I find something to say to the commendation of Christ, as it is said in Cant. ii. 1: ‘He is the rose of Sharon and lily of the valley,’ the sweetest rose that ever I smelled, and never sweeter than when under the cross, and suffering upon His account.<br /><br />Now I shall not be long. I have told you upon what account I suffer; it is out of love to Christ, and by faith in His mercy, that I venture upon it. I shall end it with a word. I thought it my duty to adhere to the Word of God, and to everything agreeable thereto; and I would suffer for everything as a ground which I think is right, and taken out of the Word of God, having encouragement from His blessed promises. ‘Thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and He that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee’ [Isa. 43.1, 2].<div>
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Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-62401761641264021882018-07-26T06:06:00.000-05:002018-07-26T06:06:32.992-05:00Cleave unto the Covenant and the Work of Reformation<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/L_bhi27Gb40?rel=0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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"There is yet a holy seed, a root whom God will preserve, and bring forth; but how long and dark our night may be, I do not know; The Lord shorten it for the sake of his Chosen. In the meantime be you patient and immoveable, abounding in the work of the Lord, and in love one to another; beware of snares, which are strewed thick. Cleave unto the Covenant, and Work of Reformation; do not decline the Cross of Christ; Choose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season; and account the reproaches of the Lord greater riches than all the Treasures of Egypt" – James Guthrie (1612-1661)<br />
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Link: <a href="https://youtu.be/L_bhi27Gb40">https://youtu.be/L_bhi27Gb40</a>Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-26304044463224422662018-06-27T15:04:00.000-05:002018-06-27T15:05:18.215-05:00Scottish Churches in America<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"Here is a brief overview of the timeline of Scottish Presbyterianism in America. For a more full picture, consult an article called <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/23328527">American Presbyterian Churches—A Genealogy, 1706-1982</a> by Russell E. Hall. </blockquote>
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"The first the Reformed Presbytery was started by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenanter">Scottish Covenanters</a> in 1774. Six years later, the majority of the Covenanters united with the Associate Presbyterian Church (the Seceders) to form the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. </blockquote>
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<b><a href="http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2018/05/may-1-6/" target="_blank">By Rev. David T. Myers - Posted at <i>This Day in Presbyterian History</i>:</a></b><br />
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Lilias Dunbar was born in 1657 to parents of high society in Scotland. Yet such extraordinary circumstances did not guarantee a long life. Early in her young life, both parents died, leaving her an orphan. Reared by a cousin, she eventually was taken into the family of a pious woman by the name of Lady Duffus, who reared this adopted daughter not just in manners, but also in the things of the Lord. When Lilias was seventeen years of age, a bout with small pox brought her dangerously ill. The sickness led her to promise God that if He healed her, she would strive to be His servant. Made well, she responded to her promise to be the Lord’s servant by seeking to establish her self-righteousness. It was only when her adopted mother passed away in 1677, that she became a genuine believer in the Lord Jesus.<br /><br />Listen to her profession of faith as found in her diary for May 1, 1677. She writes:<div>
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“The Lord, who is the Almighty, by his power, made my soul to close with the Lord Jesus, wholly on the terms that the gospel holdeth forth; and the Lord himself gave me faith to believe in Jesus Christ, that he was my Savior, which I could never attain before that time on good grounds. On that blessed morning to me, I got the Rock of ages to be my support, and I got Christ Jesus to be to me the end of the law for righteousness, to comfort me inwardly, under my disconsolate condition outwardly; for it was but fifteen days after the death of my Lady Duffus, who was in place of my parents and all my relations to me. Now I cannot pass by without observing the wisdom and goodness of God to me, in choosing that day and time for my deliverance out of the hands of all mine enemies, that I might serve him without fear. It was the time wherein I was more desolate. I was deprived of my parents by death, and had not the expectation of other means to supply my wants. It was then I was deprived of the only person in the world who took care of me, when it pleased the wise Lord by death to put a separation betwixt my Lady Duffus and me, who died April 16, 1677. Then it was that the gracious God, who delights in showing mercy, did enlarge my heart and make me to take hold of him who is the pearl of great price, in whom all fullness dwells.”</blockquote>
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<li><b><a href="http://www.electricscotland.com/history/ladies/ladies19.pdf" target="_blank">Ladies of the Covenant: Lilias Dunbar, Mrs. Campbell</a></b> (Electric Scotland)</li>
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Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-30166914041976281582018-04-16T08:21:00.001-05:002018-04-16T08:24:17.049-05:00Scotland's Forgotten Reformation (Part 1)<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/264095757" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/264095757">Scotland's Forgotten Reformation</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/scotlandforgottenhistory">Scotland's Forgotten History</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p><br />
Watch at Vimeo: <a href="https://vimeo.com/264095757">https://vimeo.com/264095757</a><br />
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Website: <a href="http://scotlandsforgottenhistory.com/">scotlandsforgottenhistory.com/</a>Angela Wittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04025738299107632514noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4625727813906063836.post-64610996335651985492018-04-11T15:22:00.000-05:002018-04-11T15:22:13.615-05:00Thomas Boston: 'The Minister, a Book, and a Controversy'<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Thomas Boston was born in 1676 and died in 1732. He was born in Scotland to a covenanter family. He was educated at Edinburgh, and for a time, was a schoolmaster. In 1699, he became the pastor at a small parish church in Simprin. While he was the minister of this small congregation, he wrote a number of books.<br />
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