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A Defense of Covenanting & The Solemn League
and Covenant & Who (Including Churches and Nations) It Binds Today - A
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"On the Duty
of Covenanting and the Permanent Obligations of Religious Covenants" being
section 11 in the Reformed Presbyterian Catechism by
William Roberts (1853) (All the Scripture you
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for men.)
Permanence of
Covenant Obligation by Omicron (1856)
(Shows how Scripture teaches that covenants bind posterity.)
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of Social Covenanting by Greg Price
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Duty and Perpetual Obligation of Social Covenanting by the Session
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Observations on the
Public Covenants by Archibald Mason
Renewal
of the Covenants, National & Solemn League; a Confession of Sins; an
Engagement to Duties; and a Testimony; as they were carried on at Middle
Octorara in Pennsylvania, November 11, 1743. By Alexander Craighead
A Solemn
Discourse upon the Grand Covenant (Solemn League & Covenant). By John
Saltmarsh
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Covenanted Reformation or Schism? (A Reply to Doug Wilson) by Reg
Barrow
Richard
Cameron - Scottish Covenanter (FREE VIDEO)
The
Informatory Vindication of the True Presbyterian Church of Scotland of A Poor,
wasted, misrepresented, Remnant of the Suffering, Anti-Popish, Anti-Prelatick,
Anti-Erastian, Anti-Sectarian, True Presbyterian Church of Christ in
SCOTLAND, by James Renwick
The
United States, the Covenanters and the Solemn League and Covenant by
Fred DiLella
Toleration
and Covenanting by John Brown (of Haddington)
What
Is A Moral Person? How God Views the Church and the Nations by David
Scott, John Cunningham, and George Smeaton (In
many ways this is a crux of the Covenanter position, underlying as it does upon
the issues of separation, civil government, the Covenants, eschatology, etc.)
A Contemporary
Covenanting Debate; Or, Covenanting Redivivus by Reg Barrow (Joe Bell [an independent, Baptist, and professing
Reconstructionist] kicked Reg Barrow off his email discussion group because the
subjects of Divine Right Presbyterianism and
the Covenanted Reformation were too hot for
him to handle. This is Barrow's final answer to Bell [which Bell censored from
his list]. No one, including Bell, has yet to attempt an answer. Barrow answers
many specific questions regarding the permanence of covenant obligation,
national Reformation, historical testimony and many other doctrines which were
prevalent during the period of the second Reformation. A wealth of original
[Reformation] texts are cited throughout and this spirited debate should help
to generate interest in many of those biblical attainments which were won
during those glorious days in which major nations openly covenanted themselves
[as moral persons] to Christ.)
Whether
it be lawful, just, and expedient, that the taking of the Solemn League and Covenant
be enjoined by the Parliament upon all persons in the kingdom under a
considerable penalty by George Gillespie (CHAPTER XVI. of "A Treatise of Miscellany Questions,"
pp. 85-88 from The Works of George Gillespie
volume 2, Still Waters Revival Books reprint. Includes "Nine particulars
to be remembered for the right deducing and stating the matter of fact. - The
grounds and reasons of such an ordinance and appointment may be eleven. - Four
objections answered. - How this ordinance would not be tyranny over men's
consciences. - The covenant is no temporary obligation. - If such an ordinance
to the army be scandalum acceptum, then the
not making of it is scandalum datum.)
Covenanted Uniformity
by Jim Dodson (Sets the context for the
Westminster Assembly and succinctly explains why there is so much disagreement
about what the Westminster standards teach. Also points the reader in the
direction of solving the problem of disunity among Reformed folk today.)
Up From
Reconstruction; or, A Short History of the Puritan Reformed Church of Edmonton
(1996) by Michael Wagner
Of the
Samaritans, and of the Non Compelling of Heathens; How the Covenant Bindeth Us.
by Samuel Rutherford (This is chapter 21 from
Samuel Rutherford's 1649 edition of A Free Disputation Against Pretended
Liberty of Conscience. A number of the most
important issues [which were at the very heart of the covenanted Reformation]
taking place in England, Scotland and Ireland during the seventeenth century
are discussed here.)
The
National Covenant (1638); or, Confession of Faith (of the Kirk of Scotland)
(The National Covenant, a Scottish Presbyterian document, was primarily
authored by John Craig (1580), Alexander Henderson and Archibald Johnstone of
Wariston (1638). Craig drafted the first section (also known as the King's
Confession); Johnston (a Covenanter, lawyer, Scottish representative at the
Westminster Assembly, and later a martyr for the cause of Christ) produced the
the second section, demonstrating the legal establishment of the Reformation in
Scotland; and Henderson made application to the present time in the third
section. This covenant was composed in opposition to the "policies of
Charles I. Written in the context of the riots resulting from the imposition of
'Laud's Liturgy' in 1637 and the King's refusal to receive the petitions of
supplicants for redress, the National Covenant was an appeal... to defend the
true Reformed religion, and to decline the recent innovations in worship
decreed by the King." (Dictionary of Scottish Church History, p. 620). Furthermore, it was "an assertion by the Kirk of
freedom from royal or state control, a personal oath of allegiance to Jesus
Christ, the only Head of the Church, the King of kings, and a dedication of
life to him. It stemmed directly from God's covenant of grace, was in the
succession of those earlier bonds the Scots had made with God for his people's
defence and deliverance, and represented a call in the Pauline sense to
'conduct themselves a citizens.'" (Idem.) This covenant (and the Solemn
League and Covenant described below) are still binding on all true
Presbyterians (because the one true church is viewed by a God as one moral
person throughout history) and the hearty and steadfast renewal of these
faithful documents would constitute a mighty means toward modern reformation,
seeing that much of the contemporary church and all modern states have set
themselves "against the Lord, and against his anointed" (Ps. 2:2);
excepting, maybe, the African state of Zambia, which seems to be presently
reforming, but not yet covenanted to the Lord. If you want to understand
Presbyterianism these two covenant documents (the National and the Solemn
League and Covenant) offer as much light as any others we know of. They are
inextricably linked to the Westminster standards, historical testimony and the
covenanted reformation. Some still believe that they will once again be renewed
on an international basis near the beginning of the millennium, in preparation
for the days when the "earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord,
as the waters cover the sea" (Isa. 11:9). With this sentiment we
wholeheartedly concur!)
The
Solemn League and Covenant by Alexander Henderson and others (Mid seventeenth-century reprint of the covenant between
England, Scotland, Ireland and the LORD Jesus Christ. The Westminster Divines, the national parliaments, the national
"Presbyterian/Puritan" churches and [most of] the people of the
British Isles swore to uphold this covenant -- some signing it with their own
blood. William M. Hetherington, in his History of the Westminster Assembly
of Divines [p. 134], calls The Solemn League
and Covenant, "the wisest, the sublimest,
and the most sacred document ever framed by uninspired men." It was
certainly a long way ahead of its time and it continues to bind the moral
person [civil and ecclesiastical] in all those nations which descended from the
civil and ecclesiatical constitutions which bound the original covenanters.
Some, even today, still regard the Solemn League and Covenant as a foretaste of
the millennial blessings that will encompass the Earth in the future.
"Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve
him" [Ps. 72:11].) And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the
mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains,
and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And
many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the
LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and
we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word
of the LORD from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall
rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their
spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us
walk in the light of the LORD [Isa. 2:2-5]).
The
Solemn League & Covenant: Exhortation by the Westminster Assembly The
Covenanting Martyrs and the Revival of the Covenants! by William
Roberts (From the Reformed Presbyterian
Catechism).
Paleopresbyterianism
Versus Neopresbyterianism by Michael Wagner
Plain Reasons for
Presbyterians Dissenting from the Revolution Church of Scotland. Also, Their
Principles Concerning Civil Government, and the Difference Betwixt the
Reformation and Revolution Principles (1731) by Andrew Clarkson (The table of contents contained in this file can serve as a
kind of summary of second Reformation thought concerning the church, state,
separation, schism, worship, civil dissent, church planting, opposition to
idolatry and tyranny, and much more!)
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Christ's Crown and Covenant - FREE VIDEO CLIP
The
Descending Obligation Of The British Covenants by James Dick The
Great Danger of Covenant-Refusing and Covenant-Breaking by Edmund Calamy God's
Anatomy upon Man's Heart by Thomas Watson [References to SL&C]
Saul
in the Cave of Adullam: A Testimony Against the Fashionable Sub-Calvinism of
Doug Wilson (Editor of Credenda/Agenda Magazine); and, for Classical Protestantism and the Attainments of
the Second Reformation by Reg Barrow
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Act, Declaration & Testimony for the Whole of our
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The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant
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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
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Terms of Communion: Covenants and Covenanting
Explains and defends the fourth term of communion, which is "That public,
social covenanting is an ordinance of God, obligatory on churches and nations
under the New Testament; that the National Covenant and the Solemn League are
an exemplification of this divine institution; and that these Deeds are of
continued obligation upon the moral person; and in consistency with this, that
the Renovation of these Covenants at Auchensaugh, Scotland, 1712 was agreeable
to the word of God." Includes the studies offered separately on the
National Covenant (2 tapes), the Solemn League and Covenant (1 tape), the
Auchensaugh Renovation (2 tapes), as well as two introductory lectures (only
available in this set) on the biblical principles related to the ordinance of
covenanting, the descending obligation of lawful covenants, objections against
covenanting, etc. Roberts, in his Reformed Presbyterian Catechism
($8.99), catches the spirit of this tape set in the following question and
answer: "Q. May we not indulge the hope, that, in the goodness of our
covenant God, and by the promised outpouring of his Holy Spirit, 'the kingdoms
of the world' at large, and the British empire in particular, will dedicate
themselves to God in a covenant not to be forgotten - animated by the example
of our covenant fathers exhibited in these memorable deeds? A. Yes. We have the
most cheering grounds for this blessed hope; for it is written, that the
nations at large in the spirit of devoted loyalty, shall cry -- 'Come and let
us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be
forgotten': and it cannot be well doubted, that the death-cry of the martyred
Guthrie has been heard on high, and shall be verified -- 'The covenants, the
covenants, shall yet be Scotland's (and the world's -- RB) reviving'" (p.
151). A thoroughly amazing set of tapes -- among our best!
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CUNNINGHAM, JOHN
The Ordinance of Covenanting (1843)
This book is considered by many as the classic work on covenanting. "The
theology of Covenanting is here unfolded with a richness of scriptural research
and a maturity of intellectual strength which would have made the grey eye of
Peden glisten with delight. The treatise is a valuable addition to that solid
theological literature of which the Reformed Presbyterian Church has produced
repeated and enduring specimens, and stamps Mr. Cunningham as a distinguished
disciple of the thoughtful and scriptural school of Mason and the
Symingtons" (Presby Rev., (1844) as cited in The Treasury
of the Scottish Covenant by Johnston). The
author himself notes that "Prayer and the offering of praise are
universally admitted to be duties of religion. The Scriptures announce a place
among these for the exercise of solemn Covenanting... What the word of God
unfolds concerning it, is addressed to the most resolute consideration of all,
and is capable of engaging the most extensive and prolonged investigation. And
yet, though none have found this subject, like all God's judgements, else than
a great deep, still in meditating upon it, the ignorant have been brought to
true knowledge, and the wise have increased in wisdom. 'The secret of the Lord
is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant' (Ps. 25:14)...
Mutual federal engagements, concerning things religious and civil, whether
entered into merely by simple promise, or confirmed by the solemn oath, have
been made from the highest antiquity to the present. The hostility to some such
engagements, and also the proud disregard for their obligation, which have been
evinced by some in all ages, demand a most careful examination into their
nature and design... Furnished with the key of Scripture, approaching the
subject, we are enabled to open the mysteries in which ignorance and prejudice
had shut it up; and equipped with the armour of light shooting forth its
heavenly radiance, in safety to ourselves we assail the darkness thrown around
it, and behold the instant flight of the spirits of error which that darkness
contains. Standing alone in beauteous attractions descended from heaven upon
it, this service beckons us to approach it, and engages to connect extensive good
with a proper attention to its claims. The observance, under various phases, is
described in Scripture as an undisputed and indisputable reality." In this
book Cunningham exhaustively covers the subject of covenanting in over 400
pages. He deals with the manner, duty and nature of covenanting (including
personal and social covenanting), the obligation covenanting confers, how
covenanting is provided for in the everlasting covenant, how it is adapted to
the moral constitution of man and how it is according to the purposes of God.
Numerous Divine examples are cited from Scripture and covenanting is shown to
be one of the great privileges of the Christian life. An interesting chapter
covers "Covenanting Enforced By the Grant of Covenant Signs and Seals;"
which touches on circumcision, baptism, the Sabbath, the Priesthood, the new
heart and the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Furthermore, this book
demonstrates how God's approbation rested upon Covenanters in formers ages, how
covenanting is predicted in prophecy, how it is recommended by the practice of
the New Testament Church and at what seasons it is appropriate. The appendices
touch on the relationship of covenanting to immoral and unscriptural civil
governments, the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, the British constitution
and the apostasy of the Revolution settlement. Additionally, Cunningham
acknowledges that the true church is "bound by the obligations of the
Church of God is past times" and is still obligated to pay what it has
vowed to the Lord in those magnificent attainments of the second
Reformation (the epitome of these attainments being embodied in the Solemn
League and Covenant and the Westminster Standards). If you are interested in
the ordinance of covenanting this is the most extensive treatment you will find
in one book. It is a gold mine of Scriptural references and should be read at
least once by everyone who calls upon the name of Christ.
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