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The Covenanters

by J. K. Hewison

The progress and persecution of evangelical Christianity in Scotland from 1560 to 1689 is the subject of these rare volumes. In that history, ‘covenants’ were oaths of allegiance which bound Christians, their bodies and possessions, to the furtherance of ‘all things required of God in his

Publication

Publisher
The Banner of Truth Trust
Date published
Oct 31, 2019
Print status
In print

The Physical Book

Binding
Cloth-bound
Dust jacket
Yes
Total pages
1136 pages
ISBN-13
9781848719279

Reference

E-book / audio
ePub, Mobi
Publisher page
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Contents

  • VOLUME 1
  • Preface to Revised and Corrected Edition (1913)
  • Original Preface (1908)
  • 1. The Historical Beginnings of the Covenanters, 1545-1561
  • 2. Mary Queen of Scots and the Romanist Reaction, 1561-1567
  • 3. The Establishment of the Church by Law, 1567-1580
  • 4. The King's Confession, 1580-1582
  • 5. The Fight for Prerogative,1582-1603
  • 6. Clerical Life and Learning after the Reformation, 1560-1625
  • 7. The Erastian King, 1603-1625
  • 8. The Liturgy Imbroglio, 1625-1637
  • 9. The National Covenant, 1637-1638
  • 10. The Glasgow Assembly and the Abolition of Episcopacy, 1638
  • 11. The First Bishops' War, 1638
  • 12. The Second Bishops' War. 1639-1641
  • 13. 'Lex Rex'--The Rise of Parliamentary Power-- The King in Scotland, 1641
  • 14. The Solemn League and Covenant, 1642-1643
  • 15. The Westminster Standards, 1643-1650
  • 16. The Great Civil War: The Struggle for Liberty of Parliament and Freedom of Conscience, 1644-1645
  • 17. The Engagement--The Fall of Charles First and of Montrose, 1641-1650
  • APPENDICES
  • 1. The Nationall Covenant
  • 2. A Solemn League and Covenant
  • 3. Extant Copies of the Scottish Covenants
  • 4. Extant Copies o the British Solemn League and Covenant
  • 5. Acts of Parliament Relative to the Covenants
  • 6. The Irish Massacre of 1641-1642
  • 7. The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Proofs
  • 8. Crimes and Sufferings of the Scottish Clergy from 1560 till 1690
  • 9. The Samuel Rutherford Scandal
  • VOLUME 2
  • 18. Scotland's Three Rulers--Church, Charles, and Cromwell, 1650-1651
  • 19. The Rule of the Ironsides, 1651-1660
  • 20. The Restoration, 1660-1661
  • 21. Condition of the Country in the Seventeenth Century--The Covenanters: the Gentlemen of the Restoration
  • 22. Reconstruction of the Church, 1661
  • 23. The Rule of Rothes and the Rising of Rullion Green,1663-1667
  • 24. The Schemes of Angelic Leighton and Iron-Handed Lauderdale, 1668-1678
  • 25. The Exit of Sharp, 1679
  • 26. The Rise of Claverhouse, 1678-1679
  • 27. The Remnant, 1679-1682
  • 28. The Policy of Rope and Gun, 1682-1683
  • 29. The Adventure of Renwick: Claverhouse and the Killing Times, 1683-1685
  • 30. The Inlet of Popery, 1685-1688
  • 31. The Revolution, 1688-1690
  • APPENDICES
  • 1. Literary Men and Their Works from 1625 till 1690
  • 2. Epitaphs on the Monuments of Some of the Most Famous of the Martyrs
  • 3. The United Societies
  • 4. The Cess
  • 5. The Wodrow Manuscripts
  • 6. Acts of Parliament Repealed in 1906
  • 7. Ordination in the Church of Scotland