Another series of letters, some ten or twelve years later in their date, form portions of the history of a worthy covenanting minister, the Rev.
They need just what the ordinance of baptism, properly observed and fully carried out by covenanting parents, would do for them.
They tell me that this covenanting with God for a child, and sealing it with an ordinance, ceased with Abraham, who was a Jew; that it was a Jewish custom, which died out.
And now I will tell you," said I, "how it seems to me God's covenanting with parents for their children came to pass.
What seal had your covenanting with God about your child?
My heart yearns after that covenanting God in behalf of my children.
Seeking each other, they met on Mount Arafat, or the Mount of Recognition, and therefore that spot of their reunion and new covenanting is a place of pilgrimage and worship for the faithful of all the world at this time.
But in order to the distinguishing of the Lord’s people from his enemies, the Hebrews were to prepare a blood welcome at their doorway, and the Lord would honor this welcome by covenanting with those who proffered it.
It is, indeed, possible that the opening or cavity in the ancient stone or metal threshold was sometimes the bason, or vessel, into which the covenanting blood was poured.
This giving and taking of the hand was a symbol of covenanting in Babylonia.
The significance of the threshold as altar, place of covenanting and worship, in house, temple, and domain, I think is completely made out.
After the field of Kylsyth, after the field of Philipshaugh, and the flight to the North and the betrayal, he has been brought back to Edinburgh, to a swift and covenanting sentence, and to death at the Tron.
Glasgow is the capital of the Whig country, of the democratic Scotland of covenanting ancestry.
Coming on ship to New Jersey as the property of Scott of Pitlochry, Scott and his wife died and almost all the covenanting slaves.
Up the Rock, in Covenanting days, stole Claverhouse, the Bonnie Dundee, to a secret conference with the Duke of Gordon, hoping to win him away to Stewart loyalty and the North.
Should we stay in this corner of the world longer we might turn covenanting and Cromwellian!
And out of the high lands there look the hundreds of Covenanting folk, triumphant for the moment.
See the account of a Covenanting Officer in the Appendix to the Scots Worthies.
My father, when a boy, made occasional visits to Hamilton, in the West of Scotland, where the descendants of hisCovenanting ancestors still lived.
Dumfries, in the centre of the Covenanting district, had always been hostile to the Stuarts.
As the covenanting prisoners were nearly all ministers, and a few of them prophets, it was thought, no doubt, that they could attend to their own devotions for themselves.
And no one of these last three suggested meanings accounts for the oneness with the gods through blood, which the deceased claims, unless the symbolism of blood-covenanting be recognized in the terminology.
And so, all the way along through the prophets, in repeated emphasis of the incompleteness of the blood-covenanting symbols in the ritual sacrifices.
Among European Jews in olden time, the officiating rabbi, having blessed a glass of wine, tasted it himself, and then gave it first to the one and then to the other of the partiescovenanting in marriage.
Concerning traces of the rite of blood-covenanting in China, where there are to be found fewest resemblances to the primitive customs of the Asiatic Semites, Dr.
This is a clear indication of the traditional form of covenanting between Catiline and his fellow conspirators.
In the Brahman marriage ceremony the bridegroom receives his bride by binding a covenantingnecklace about her neck.
He himself had been warned by Covenanting sentries who challenged him as he was stealing in the early dawn towards the trysting-place, and he had returned to the cave and waited in a tumult of anxiety.
He was a member of the General Assembly at Glasgow, in 1638, at which the famous James, Marquis of Montrose, was representative elder from the Presbytery of Auchterarder, he being then on the Covenanting side.
In this district there was but little of the Covenanting feeling that was rampant in the West.
The work of Covenanting is itself a lofty spiritual exercise, and requires a people possessing much of the Spirit of the living God.
It is reported to the honour of Judah, in the day of their covenanting with their God; "they had sworn with all their heart, and with their whole desire.
Hence, the nature, objects, and benefits of personal and national Covenanting are exhibited in a manner fitted to attract to that ordinance the minds and hearts of men.
And this might suffice to warrant our covenanting to extirpate this prelacy, save that only.
Under His gracious influence, the bonds of prejudice against covenanting are as green withs and the covenanter stands forth in liberty and in power.
Now these successful effects ofcovenanting well minded, First, May hint to us a satisfactory reason, in case peace comes not presently.
In and around their whole Covenanting procedure, there was the atmosphere of a paradise of communion with God.
A more attractive personality than Leslie's was that of the young Earl of Montrose, who had attached himself with enthusiasm to the national cause, and had attempted to convert the people of Aberdeen to covenanting principles.
On the 11th June, Claverhouse was defeated at Drumclog, but eleven days later he routed the Covenanting army at Bothwell Bridge, and took over a thousand prisoners.
The inquisition established by Royal Commission, and presided over by the then Duke of York, rioted in the shedding of the blood of “the faithful,” and with merciless cruelty persecuted and tortured ourCovenanting forefathers.
A Covenanting Scot and an English Independent differ about y^e things of this world.
A Covenanting Scot & an English Independent differ about y^e things of this world.
As if to remove all possible charge of partiality, Scott made the one faultless Christian of his tale a Covenanting widow, the admirable Bessie McLure.
Scott had Cavalier sympathies, as Macaulay had Covenanting sympathies.
His best answer to "Old Mortality" would have been a novel, as good and on the whole as fair, written from the Covenanting side.
First his father and then he himself had taken the Covenanting side in the national struggle--his father through interest and conviction, the son from interest alone.
Presently Will Gordon came bustling down to breakfast, having cleaned his accoutrements and adorned himself with such sober trappings as were permitted by the Spartan taste of the Covenanting regiment.
Scott gives the Covenantingpreachers credit for taming the wild moss-troopers who had been recalled to activity on the Borders by the troubles of that time.
On the same branch line from Newton-Stewart, Wigtown rears above its bay a monument of that shamefullest tragedy of the Covenanting persecutions, when two women martyrs were fastened to stakes to be drowned by the tide.
Covenanting Assembly whose denunciation of prelates counts as the second Reformation.
There he supped handsomely off ham and eggs, and dipped into a work called Covenanting Worthies, which garnished a table decorated with sea-shells.
He indicates, day by day, the marching and counter-marching of the royalist troops, and narrates all the steps that were taken to bring together a body sufficiently strong to disperse the Covenanting insurgents.
By what may seem a singular freak of fate, Jean, youngest daughter of the late Lord Cochrane, the lady on whom he had bestowed his affections, belonged to a family of strong Covenanting sympathies.
It is of these extremists that the covenanting party now consisted.
In so far as he is personally concerned there is no reason for recalling the incident of the fight which effectively put an end to the Covenanting insurrection.
Still more convincing is it, that the Covenanting writers who record the incident, whilst bitter enough in their denunciations of Claverhouse’s inhumanity, are absolutely silent as to the lawlessness of his action.
Mr. Wake, however, refers it to the custom of sexual hospitality, a practice widely spread among all savage races, the rite like that of blood covenanting being associated with ideas of kinship and friendliness.
The widespread custom of blood-covenanting illustrates most clearly, as Dr.
There was a dim light upon the running water, and his thoughts turned to the West Country, to the streams he had often crossed and along whose bed he had sometimes ridden, as he hunted for his Covenanting prey.
Pollock, with all his narrowness of faith and extravagance of action, was a saint, and no one could say that of Claverhouse, even though they might admit he was not the devil of the Covenanting imagination.
While I am here," continued thisCovenanting heroine, "you need not trouble yourself about the Earl of Dundonald, but I cannot speak so surely for my daughter.
Destiny had settled for him his politics and his principles, for he could not leave the way in which Montrose had gone before, or be the comrade of Covenanting Whigs.
Had she not often spoken warmly of that Covenanting minister and expressed her bitter regret that her husband had compassed Pollock's death?
His wife, covenanting for personal safety, and delivering up the castle, followed her husband.
In the latter part of his life, too, he himself espoused the daughter of the king of Tarragona, covenanting for a noble dowry; namely, the perpetual peace of the adjacent provinces.
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