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Updated: June 5, 2025
But her last Sabbath-day's journey was taken the week before her wedding. Nor did his wife contend against it. The habit once broken, she felt no inclination to undertake those long and wearisome journeys. But a Covenanter she meant to live and die. Nothing would have tempted her into the Presbyterian chapel close by.
Either this very hour gie me your solemn promise that ye will think o' Mary as to be yer wife nae mair, or, wi' the risin' o' to-morrow's sun, leave this house for ever!" "Sir," said Philip bitterly, "your last command I can obey, though it would be with a sad heart though it would be in despair your first I cannot I will not!" "You must you shall!" replied the Covenanter.
That holy Covenant had lifted her into relationship with God; the kingdom had become Hephzibah, and the land, Beulah; the nation was married to the Lord. The Covenant bound the Covenanter, the Church, the nation, and posterity, under a solemn oath, To adhere to the Reformed religion with all the heart through all time to come;
'And they're just neighbour-like, replied the Covenanter; 'and nae wonder they gree sae weel. Wha wad hae thought the goodly structure of the Kirk of Scotland, built up by our fathers in 1642, wad hae been defaced by carnal ends and the corruptions of the time; ay, wha wad hae thought the carved work of the sanctuary would hae been sae soon cut down!
"Oh, sir," said the Covenanter, "pardon the freedom o' a plain blunt man, and o' ane whose bosom is burning wi' anxiety; but there is a mystery, there is something attending my deliverance, an' the letter, and your kindness, that I canna see through and I hope, and I fear and I canna I daurna comprehend how it is! but, as it were, the past the lang bygane past, and the present, appear to hae met thegither!
These, no doubt, afforded refuge, during the eight-and-twenty years of inhuman persecution, to the poor Covenanter; but they were not, in general, constructed for or by him.
It had been the hope of many a dour Covenanter, infuriated by the wrongs of his friends, if not his own, to strike down Claverhouse and avenge the sufferings of God's people. Satan had protected his own, but now the man of blood was given into their hands.
My father's fiat has gone forth against my royal lover's offer, and so I shall be the wife of some staid sober Covenanter, I suppose; that is, if I follow my father's wishes, and marry Will Dulton." "Better than be the wedded mistress of a dissolute man," said Constance, firmly. "Believe me, Charles Stuart has all his father's weakness without his father's virtues."
The men were overawed by the sweet innocency and intrepid spirit of the youthful Covenanter. "Shoot that bonnie young man!" exclaimed the officer, who had charge of the men appointed to do the bloody work. "I'll fight Clavers and a' his men first." Three others were found sufficiently hardened to do the cruel deed. The young hero fell, and expired.
It was with a genial, confident smile that Mr. Traill made this terrible accusation. "Ma heart's no' so saft as to permit a bit dog to scandalize the deid." "He's been here two days, you no' knowing it, and he has scandalized neither the dead nor the living. He's as leal as ony Covenanter here, and better conducted than mony a laird.
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