Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Given that it is the 12th of July, this post seems appropriate:
When, in 1661, good James Guthrie was brought upon the scaffold, and about to suffer, he put aside the napkin which covered his face and said, “The Covenants, the Covenants will yet be Scotland’s reviving.” He was a true prophet. Under that inspiriting Ensign, and strengthened from on high, our “Church in the wilderness” nobly held out during all that long age of darkness and blood, which disgraced the reigns of the Second Charles and the Second James, till King William came, a good Samaritan, to relieve the three afflicted nations, afflicted indeed — robbed? wounded, exanimated, as having fallen among thieves.
When Britain came to herself she took care to guard against a repetition of priestly enormities, by passing laws under the shadow of which we have ever since reposed, thrived, and become the chief of nations. Whether, now that the happy policy inaugurated at the Revolution — a policy of utter antagonism to Rome — has been not only altered but reversed, we shall still bask in sunshine, seems vastly doubtful. ...
For more, see James Young on King William III as a Good Samaritan.
When, in 1661, good James Guthrie was brought upon the scaffold, and about to suffer, he put aside the napkin which covered his face and said, “The Covenants, the Covenants will yet be Scotland’s reviving.” He was a true prophet. Under that inspiriting Ensign, and strengthened from on high, our “Church in the wilderness” nobly held out during all that long age of darkness and blood, which disgraced the reigns of the Second Charles and the Second James, till King William came, a good Samaritan, to relieve the three afflicted nations, afflicted indeed — robbed? wounded, exanimated, as having fallen among thieves.
When Britain came to herself she took care to guard against a repetition of priestly enormities, by passing laws under the shadow of which we have ever since reposed, thrived, and become the chief of nations. Whether, now that the happy policy inaugurated at the Revolution — a policy of utter antagonism to Rome — has been not only altered but reversed, we shall still bask in sunshine, seems vastly doubtful. ...
For more, see James Young on King William III as a Good Samaritan.