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But there were, particularly in the western lowlands, many fierce and resolute men who held that the obligation to observe the Covenant was paramount to the obligation to obey the magistrate. These people, in defiance of the law, persisted in meeting to worship God after their own fashion.
He was bleeding, hungry, weary, utterly exhausted, ready to die. He asked for food and shelter. The pitiful request was denied, for such kindness, if the authorities were informed, would endanger the family; and the penalty might be expulsion, imprisonment, or death. No cup of cold water for this thirsty soul; no spark of charity to warm this shivering child of the Covenant.
M. Domat heard the cause, and finding by the evidence that she had ignorantly broken a covenant in the lease which gave her landlord the power of re-entry, he recommended mercy to the baron for a poor but honest tenant, who had not wilfully transgressed, or done him any material injury.
Civil rulers were required to be possessed of scriptural and covenant qualifications and were taken bound to make a chief end of their government the promotion of the divine glory in the advancement of the true reformed religion, and the protection and prosperity of the Reformed Presbyterian Church.
One may recall that twenty years previous, 1769-71, Dr. Bellamy was thundering not only against the Half-Way Covenant, but also against the Stoddardean view of the Lord's Supper as a "means" of grace, as a sacrament the partaking of which would help unworthy or unconverted men to conversion and to the leading of moral and holy lives.
What reaction followed the ten prosperous years after the Covenant of 1638? Trace the cause of the great distress that befell the Church Why did Scotland aid England with her army? What were the results of the war? How did the Covenanters treat their captive king? What was the agreement known as "The Engagement?" How did it divide the Covenanted Church?
It will be remembered that it was the great stairs at Solomon's temple that so impressed the Queen of Sheba. Small shrines or miniature temples, called Tenno Samma, or "Heaven's Lord," are carried on staves, like the Ark of the Covenant, at their religious ceremonies. The inner shrine, or Holy of Holies, is small, and a cube, or nearly so, in proportion.
Their adherence to the Solemn League and Covenant; An acknowledgment of public sins and duties; A denunciation of Popery, Prelacy, and Erastianism. The Declaration was proclaimed to the army and published to the world. On these impregnable grounds the little army was consolidated; they felt themselves strong in the Lord, and able in His name to fight His battles.
The earth's springs of drinking water, refreshing showers, the rainbow on the cloud, they would have been the same, had no human being ever stood on this planet to claim them for ages as the signs of providence and of covenant." Gabriella had her own faith as to the rainbow. "So, none of the other animals was made for Man," resumed David, who seemed to have some ulterior purpose in all this.
The Lord of the Israelites who was wont to manifest himself to his chosen people in a "pillar of smoke by day" and a "pillar of fire by night" is said to be none other than a reproductive emblem, as was also the "Lord" which "reposed in the ark of the covenant."
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