Excerpt from Martyrs, Heroes, and Bards of the Scottish Covenant Close Of The Persecution: - Expedition of the Earl of Argyle - Horrors of Dunottar Castle - Covenanting Martyrs - James Renwick - Rest from Persecution - Death of Claverhouse; General View Of The Character, Literature, Aims, And Attained Objects Of The Covenanters: - Their earnestness - Tent-preaching - Hugh Binning - Guthrie - Rutherford - Wellwood - Effects of the Covenant - On the religious character of Scotland; Treatment The Covenanters Received In After Times: - Historians of the Covenant - Critical Estimate of Ramsay, Fergusson, and Burns - The Speculative School at Edinburgh - Sir Walter Scott - Robert Pollok - Edward Irving - Professor Aytoun, &c.; Deductions From The History And Character Of The Covenanters: - Folly of persecution - Power of deep religious belief - Rich influences of adversity - Tendencies of dominant churches - Erastianism and priestly domination - Impossibility of adjusting, by alliance, the claims of Church and State - General deductions; Description of the Massacre of Glencoe About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The latter part of the 1600's in Scotland has become known in the annals of time as the 'Killing times'. The Oath and The Covenant is a story based on the lives of these brave Scottish Presbyterian Covenanters, their object being to release their beloved Scotland from the strangling grasp of an English king, who claimed he had a 'Divine Right' to rule both church and state. The Covenanters never relinquished their determination to gain what they viewed as a God given right to worship freely. They endured inhumane treatment leveled upon them by King Charles II's armies in his attempt to subjugate them. John Whitelaw, the Martyr of Monkland, was one of many who was torn from the bosom of his family and finally gave his life to gain religious freedom. The story continues based upon the many accounts of those who were banished to the Americas. It was in America that they found friends among the Abeniki tribe of Indians, who taught the Scots needed skills to survive in this new land and drew them into their culture. They also found precious religious freedom to worship according to the dictates of their hearts-and not that of a king.