When it came first to be known that Traquair was going up to the king, the deputies (afterward called the covenanters) were desirous that he would carry up an information, which the lord Balmerino and Mr. Johnston (the only advocates as yet trusted by the petitioners) had drawn up, and that he would present the same, with their supplication, to his majesty. ❋ John Howie (1764)
They were not "covenanters" in the Congregational sense of having brought an established church with them to the Fair Play territory. ❋ George D. Wolf (N/A)
'covenanters', who cause the ruin of families and the decay of common honesty; changing the former piety and plain dealing of this nation into cruelty and cunning. ❋ Jane West (1805)
The absence of these auxiliary troops, upon this crusade for the establishment of Presbyterianism in England, had considerably diminished the power of the Convention of Estates in Scotland, and had given rise to those agitations among the anti-covenanters, which we have noticed at the beginning of this chapter. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He observed that Obadiah was an adventitious appellation, derived from his great - grandfather, who had been one of the original covenanters; but Lismahago was the family surname, taken from a place in Scotland so called. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Maybe they'd end up running ghost tours, same as they did with places like Mary King's Close, said to be home to the spirits of plague victims, or Greyfriars Kirkyard, where covenanters had perished. ❋ Rankin, Ian (2004)
Unto them alone God says, Hileōs esomai, “I will be propitious,” — the great word of the new covenant, Heb.viii. 12, they alone being covenanters. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)
God hath so confirmed them in him, that he hath at his death made a legacy of them, and bequeathed them in a testamentary dispensation to the covenanters, Heb. ix. ❋ 1616-1683 (1966)
In the first covenant made with Adam there was no surety, but God and men were the immediate covenanters; and although we were then in a state and condition able to perform and answer all the terms of the covenant, yet was it broken and disannulled. ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
These were the instruments of that unprecedented barbarity, cruelty and oppression, committed in the West, after the defeat of Colonel Wallace and his little army of covenanters, at Pentland Hills, _November_ 28th, 1666. ❋ The Reformed Presbytery (N/A)
Marchmont to the Port of Edinburgh; and here the bleaching skulls of martyred covenanters gave to those who entered the town grim warning of the risks of nonconformity. ❋ Jeanie Lang (N/A)
Compare their religious ideas with those of the old Scottish covenanters, or English puritans, and how different are the effects of faith; but perhaps they are not more dissimilar than the natures of the two races are. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
Continuing in Edinburgh to prosecute his studies, he was brought to attend the private fellowship-meetings of the persecuted covenanters. ❋ Thomas Houston (N/A)
Covenant of the three kingdoms, in which the covenanters explicitly bound themselves to support the king and parliament in "the maintenance of the true reformed religion." ❋ Thomas Houston (N/A)
However belied and misrepresented the persecuted covenanters were in their own day, impartial history has not failed to do justice to their memory, and to show that their faithful contendings had no little influence in the nation's deliverance from degrading oppression. ❋ Thomas Houston (N/A)
Lauderdale, both of whom at that time advocated a tolerant policy towards the Scottish covenanters. ❋ Various (N/A)
The exciting scenes and active sympathies, attendant on the Revolutionary war, added to a hereditary love of liberty, carried many covenanters away from their distinctive principles. ❋ The Reformed Presbytery (N/A)
The covenanters knew the value of Uncle Tom's text. ❋ Frank Boreham (1915)
Gothic law are followed either separately or together, according to the nationality of the covenanters. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The Reformed Presbytery, which merged with the Associate Presbytery in 1782, was renewed in an independent existence in 1798 by the isolated covenanters who had taken no part in the union of 1782. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
