The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Quotes

“For the sacrament of baptism; how cruel are men grown to their little infants, by keeping of them from the seal of entrance into the kingdom of heaven, and making their children to be just in the same condition with the children of Turks and Infidels?”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“The Reformed Presbyterian Churches of Scotland and Ireland are the only Churches within the British Dominions that take this position of political dissent”
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“Those who enter into the possession of valuable estates, secured for them by the toil and struggles of ancestry, do not renounce their estates because they themselves were not consulted in the execution of the title deeds. These deeds of the Covenanters, and the heritage secured by them, were obtained through the noblest sacrifices. They were deeds presented before the Throne, and registered in the Court of heaven, and those who repudiate them incur the risk of an awful forfeiture.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“No Christian should ever dare to seek relief from the claims of Christ; it is his honour to acknowledge and live and die for them.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“No, their weapons will not be carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. They will go to the Covenant God of the kingdom, and they will stand before Him, saying, "Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse." Scotland will renew her covenant with God. The”
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“The young Church of Scotland was based on the Word of God, anti-papal, free, reformed, and covenanting, and in that character acknowledged by the State.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“At Edinburgh, in 1557, they entered into "ane Godlie Band," vowing that "we, by His grace, shall, with all diligence, continually apply our whole power, substance, and our very lives to maintain, set forward and establish the most blessed Word of God.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“all heresy and error whatsoever must be opposed by him, to the uttermost of his power; and by the covenant, the king must be far from toleration of any false religion within his dominions.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“the king is bound without respect of persons, to extirpate popery, prelacy, superstition, heresy, schism, and profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found contrary to sound doctrine, and the power of godliness.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“We are bound to maintain the true reformed religion, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, established in this kingdom, and to endeavour the reformation of religion in the other two kingdoms, according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed kirks. By this article, the king is obliged, not only to maintain religion as it was established in Scotland, but also to endeavour the reformation of religion in his other kingdoms”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“That government which doth not promote unity as well as purity, is not the government of Christ.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“The covenant you made with God in baptism. A Christian (saith Chrysostom) should never step out of doors, or lie down in his bed, or go into his closet, but he should remember the time when he did renounce the devil and all his works.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“Tertullian saith, "That when a Christian forsakes his covenant, and the colours of Christ, and turns to serve as the devil's soldier, he puts an unspeakable discredit upon God and Christ.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“We swear "to endeavour the extirpation of popery, prelacy, superstition, heresy, and schism." And yet, notwithstanding, there are some that have taken the oath that contend earnestly for a toleration of all religions.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“now there are many that study more to gain parties to themselves, than to gain souls to God.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“By virtue of the covenant, heaven is not only made possible, but certain to all believers, and certain by way of oath.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“First, because that, to sin against the covenant is a greater sin than to sin against a commandment of God, or to sin against a promise, or to sin against an ordinance of God.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“Because it is the highest act of God's love to man, to vouchsafe to engage Himself by oath and covenant to be his God; so it is the highest demonstration of man's love to God, to bind himself by oath and covenant to be God's.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“It is sin that makes afflictions to be the fruits of God's avenging wrath, part of the curse due to sin, and a beginning of hell.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“It is sin and iniquity that make times truly perilous. Sin, and sin only, takes away God's love and favour from a nation, and makes God turn an enemy to it.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“Therefore, however some men, hoodwinked and blinded by the artifices of those Jesuitical engineers, who have long conspired to sacrifice our religion to the idolatry of Rome, our laws, liberties and persons to arbitrary slavery, and our estates to their insatiable avarice, may possibly be deterred and amused with high threats and declarations, flying up and down on the wings of the royal name and countenance, now captivated and prostituted to serve all their lusts, to proclaim all rebels and traitors who take this covenant”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“And we see how the papists have abused and adulterated the lawful use of natural mediums, to the unlawful use of artificial mediums of their own inventions; images and crucifixes, first to help their memories, and stir up their devotions in their prayers, and then to pray unto them, as mediums of divine worship.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“There will be great hopes we shall be faithful in our new covenant, when we come with a godly sense and sorrow for our abuse of old, and labour to maintain it upon our spirits.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“Till our hearts be throughly broken for covenant-breach, we will not pass much for breaking covenant, upon every fresh temptation.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“Whatsoever we make our ultimate and highest end, we make our God.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“let us seek God, and seek Him as a fountain of holiness, as well as a fountain of happiness.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“If God see anything lie nearer our hearts than Himself, He will scorn us, and our services.”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“if I regard iniquity, the Lord will not accept my person, He will not regard my covenant”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“what hath poisoned and adulterated religion in all these branches, and hath let in popery and profaneness upon the kingdom like a flood, for the raising of their own pomp and greatness, but prelacy?”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation

“What is it then that hath destroyed all gospel order, and government and worship, in these kingdoms, as in other places of the Christian world, even down to the ground? Hath it not been prelacy?”
― Various, The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation