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id: 13781
author: Houston, Thomas
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title:
  The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony

summary:
  The latter end of this year, I heard that great man of God, Mr. James Renwick, preach on Song iii. 9, 10, when he treated greatly on the covenant of redemption agreed on between God the Father and God the Son, in favour of the elect; as also on the covenant of grace established with believers in Christ. Cover Picture: Execution of James Renwick, Edinburgh, 1688.


id: 46345
author: Buchan, John
title: Sir Quixote of the Moors Being some account of an episode in the life of the Sieur de Rohaine
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  In the old days, when I had lived as became my rank in my native land, I had met a Scot,--one Kennedy by name,--a great man in his own country, with whom I struck up an intimate friendship. Neither horse nor man was in any spirit.


id: 21738
author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
title: Hunted and Harried
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  Similarly, on the other side, there were good men and true, who, with bolder hearts, perhaps, and clearer brains, it may be, refused the Indulgence as a presumptuous enactment, which cut at the roots of both civil and religious liberty, as implying a right to withhold while it professed to give, and which, if acquiesced in, would indicate a degree of abject slavery to man and unfaithfulness to God that might sink Scotland into a condition little better than that of some eastern nations at the present day. And leaders such as John Nisbet of Hardhill, one of the most interesting sufferers in the twenty-eight years' persecution; Clelland, who had fought with distinguished courage at Drumclog; Henry Hall of Haughhead; David Hackston of Rathillet; John Balfour of Burley; Turnbull of Bewlie; with Major Learmont and Captain John Paton of Meadowhead--two veterans who had led the Westland Covenanters in their first battle at the Pentland Hills--such men were well able to have led a band of even half-disciplined men to victory if united under a capable general.


id: 12381
author: Reformed Presbytery of North America
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title:
  The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and Solemn League and Covenant With the Acknowledgment of Sins and Engagement to Duties, as They Were Renewed at Auchensaugh, Near Douglas, July 24, 1712. (Compared With the Editions of Paisley, 1820, and Belfast, 1835.) Also, The Renovation of These Public Federal Deeds Ordained at Philadelphia, October 8, 1880, by the Reformed Presbytery, with Accommodation of the Original Covenants, in Both Transactions, to Their Times and Positions Respectively

summary:
  Hence it concerns all that would be right Covenanters, to search and see how it may be betwixt God and them, because 'tis but a profanation of the covenant to have the hand and tongue at it, and the heart from it: a well informed head without a reformed heart is not sufficient: a good opinion and liking of the covenant without a heart and affection to the covenant avails nothing in God's sight. 2d, Such as would rightly renew covenant with God, must be well resolved concerning the motives leading them to covenant; which motives must neither arise wholly from without, nor yet wholly from within, for if these motives arise wholly from without, it discovers a great deal of treachery in the persons covenanting, as not beginning at the heart, not duly considering the inward case of the soul, but being moved from some external considerations, as a name amongst men, or affectation of zeal for public concerns, or such like; if they arise wholly from within it betrays much weakness and lowness of spirit, as not being able at the same time both to have a concern about the inward frame of the heart, and eternal state and condition of the soul, and likewise a zeal for the public good of the nation, and thriving of the work of God and kingdom of Christ. [2] A third Dr. said, I hold it is a sin for men to go into the august presence of God and enter into covenant with him.


id: 49671
author: Rouse, Lydia L.
title: Honest Wullie; and Effie Patterson's Story
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  They are strang eneuch to bear us up, and sweet eneuch to comfort us; and I think a' we hae to do is to lay hand o' them as they are held oot to us. Kenneth had driven over many times to see his mother; twice Cousin Margaret came with him.


id: 13570
author: McFeeters, J. C. (James Calvin)
title: Sketches of the Covenanters
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  The Covenanters returned to their homes rejoicing in their Covenant Lord, who had given them the victory without the cost of blood, and in their homes profound gratitude arose to God in their morning and evening service of worship. From that time he brought his influence, wealth, power, and office into the service of his Covenant Lord, and grew mighty in the cause of God.


id: 32137
author: Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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title:
  The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway

summary:
  I could have laughed at another time, for they were both great red men with beards of that colour, and their faces were very near one another, like those of the yokels that grin at each other emulously out of the horse collars on the turbulent day of the Clachan Fair--which is on the eve of St. John, in the time of midsummer. For true religion comes not by violence, but chiefly, I think, from being brought up with good men, reverencing their ways and words.


id: 45495
author: Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
title: Lochinvar: A Novel
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  But, because I am only poor Wat Gordon of the Douglas Regiment, I must be grateful for any dog's treatment. But indeed, and in God's truth, I do count you my friend, said Wat; for who but you, Little Marie, during all these black days, has so much as thought upon poor Wat Gordon? At his kind words Marie bent her head, and for the first time in her life her heart was filled with the fresh spring-water of purest pleasure.


id: 19100
title: The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
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  Lord God, the eye of this kingdom is distempered, dim, and dark; and then how great is this darkness! Ye know in the beginning of the reformation, there was small likelihood that the work should go up, and be finished, because of the great power that was against it; yet the Lord brought it forward against all impediments; and put the cope-stone on it: that same God lives yet, and is as able to put the cope-stone on this work, as He was then, if ye believe.


id: 37137
author: Shields, Alexander
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  A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods

summary:
  O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thy self; lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth, render a reward to the proud. And indeed, if we consider it right, if the impression of any majesty God hath put upon princes, should bind up our hands from any resistance, it will restrain from prayer resistance: for, if that impression have any force at any time, it must be when a man is most solemnly stated before God, and speaking to God as a Christian, rather than when he is acting as a man with a man like himself: and as prayer resistance is the more formidable and forcible resistance than any other (as this Saul and many other kings, have found by their woful experience) so it is more restricted than other resistance; for we may defend ourselves against many whom we must not pray against, to wit, our private enemies, for whom we are commanded to pray: yet nobody will deny but we may resist their violence: and likewise, we are commanded to pray for kings, when invested with God's authority; but when their degeneration looses us from that obligation to pray for them, and allows us to pray against them when they turn enemies to God (as we see in the prayers of the psalmist) then also we may more warrantably resist them by defensive arms.


