The Solemn League & Covenant
THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT FOR REFORMATION AND DEFENCE OF
RELIGION, THE HONOUR AND HAPPINESS OF THE KING, AND THE PEACE AND
SAFETY OF THE THREE KINGDOMS OF SCOTLAND, ENGLAND, AND IRELAND.
Taken and Subscribed several times by King Charles II
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Covenants, Covenanting and the Solemn League and Covenant
(Summaries by Reg Barrow)
Covenants, Covenanting and the Solemn League and
Covenant: The Covenanted Reformation Defended Against
Contemporary Schismatics by Greg Barrow (Greg Price, Reg
Barrow and Larry Birger) Contains what may be the best
information gathered into one book.
http://www.swrb.com/
1. a solemn, public acknowledgement that the Lord is the only
God, and our God;
2. a public profession that we are the people of the Lord God;
3. a sober, public recognition and pronouncement that we, His
people, are morally obligated to vow to keep the Lord's
commandments and, thus also, are further bound to keep all His
commandments;
4. a serious, devoted, public avowal that we are bound not only
to put on that which is good, but also to put off that which is
evil. (That is, we are to love the truth and also to abhor, stand
against, and strive to extirpate all evil.); and
5. an earnest, sober, grave, prayerful, public binding of our
posterity to our lawful covenant vows.
The Covenants (National and Solemn League) clearly contain and
are deeply rooted in all these elements. Therefore, the Covenants
(National and Solemn League) are binding on the church today as
all lawful covenants are morally obligatory on the oath-takers
and their posterity. Call to mind the covenants with David and
Jonathan (Remember David's care for Mephibosheth.) Recall also
the covenant of Joshua with the Gibeonites. When Saul violated
the covenant centuries later, the Lord demanded the punishment of
Saul's posterity.
We must never lose sight of the fact that the church is a moral
person before the Lord God. Therefore, the church's posterity are
morally bound to the lawful covenants of their spiritual
ancestors. At the very least, then, this would mean that all
professing Presbyterians, as the spiritual offspring of the
original subscribers of the covenants (National and Solemn
League), are
morally obligated to the covenants.
