covenanters

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.

Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

They were not "covenanters" in the Congregational sense of having brought an established church with them to the Fair Play territory.

The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography George D. Wolf

'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.

The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel 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.

A Legend of Montrose 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.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 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.

Fleshmarket Close 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.

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 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.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 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.

The Doctrine of Justification by Faith 1616-1683 1965

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.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking