The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 184 pages of information about The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and.

The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 184 pages of information about The Auchensaugh Renovation of the National Covenant and.

All which ingredients of perpetual obligations are clear in Scotland’s Covenants, which are national promises, adjuring all ranks of persons, under a curse, to preserve and promote reformation according to the word of God, and extirpate the opposite thereof. National vows, devoting the then engaging, and succeeding generations to be the Lord’s people, and walk in his ways. National oaths, solemnly sworn by all ranks, never to admit of innovations, or submit to usurpations, contradictory to the word of God. National covenants, wherein the king, parliament and people did covenant with each other, to perform their respective duties, in their several places and stations, inviolably to preserve religion and liberty:  Yea, more, national laws, solemnly ratified by the king and parliament, and made the foundation of the people’s compact with the king, at his inauguration:  And, finally, they are national covenants with God, as party contracting, to keep all the words of his covenant.  The subject or parties contracting are permanent, to wit, the unchangeable God and the kingdom of Scotland, (the same may be said of England and Ireland,) which, whilst it remains a kingdom, is still under the obligation of these covenants.  The matter is moral, antecedently and eternally binding, albeit there had been no formal covenant:  the ends of them perpetually good, to wit, the defence of the true reformed religion, and the maintenance of the King’s Majesty’s person and estate, (as is expressed in the National Covenant,) the glory of God, the advancement of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ; the honor and happiness of the King’s Majesty and his posterity, and the public liberty, safety, and peace of the kingdoms, as it is expressed in the Solemn League.  And in the form of them there are clauses expressing their perpetuity.  In the National covenant it is said, that the present and succeeding generations in this land are bound to keep the foresaid National Oath and Subscription inviolable.  And in the Solemn League, Article 1, That we and our posterity after us, may, as brethren, live in faith and love.  And Art. 5, That they may remain conjoined in a firm peace and union to all posterity.

We may add also the sanctions of rewards and punishments descending to posterity, prove the obligation perpetual:  Which is, alas! too visible in our case as to the punishments inflicted for the breach of our covenants, and like to be further inflicted, if repentance prevent not; so that as we have been a taunting proverb, and an hissing, for the guilt, we may look to be made a curse and an execration for the punishment of it.  The distinction which some make use of to elude this obligation, “That suppose they be materially bound, yet seeing they have not sworn the covenants personally, they are not formally bound,” is both false and frivolous; for our father’s oath

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