Patrick Welwood: A Tale of the Times of the Kirk and Covenant, for the YoungD. Bryce, 1841 - 303 sider |
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Side xi
... enemies , nor were afraid to encounter the might of them all . God put within them an indomitable spirit which would not be enforced by the power of man . Our fathers may be said to have lived for centuries in the tented field ; yea ...
... enemies , nor were afraid to encounter the might of them all . God put within them an indomitable spirit which would not be enforced by the power of man . Our fathers may be said to have lived for centuries in the tented field ; yea ...
Side xii
... enemy with which the Kirk of Scotland had to wrestle , was the Prelacy , or , more properly speaking , the Papacy seeking to regain its old supremacy , and putting on for this end the guise of Prelacy . The wrestlings of the Kirk with ...
... enemy with which the Kirk of Scotland had to wrestle , was the Prelacy , or , more properly speaking , the Papacy seeking to regain its old supremacy , and putting on for this end the guise of Prelacy . The wrestlings of the Kirk with ...
Side 30
... enemies - to cast up a bastion on which the waves of Popish rage might not only dash in vain , but dash themselves in pieces , the nation entered into covenant with God . This covenant , wherein the king , the nobles , barons ...
... enemies - to cast up a bastion on which the waves of Popish rage might not only dash in vain , but dash themselves in pieces , the nation entered into covenant with God . This covenant , wherein the king , the nobles , barons ...
Side 40
... enemy to His people , in whose name you sue for mercy , yet if you come down to us and make no resist- ance , so that there be no blood shedding , for His sake you shall have quarters , this I promise on the word of a gentleman . ' I ...
... enemy to His people , in whose name you sue for mercy , yet if you come down to us and make no resist- ance , so that there be no blood shedding , for His sake you shall have quarters , this I promise on the word of a gentleman . ' I ...
Side 41
... enemy at Lan- ark , on a letter coming to Mr. Welsh from a gentleman at Edinburgh , urging us to draw nearer that place , and holding out hopes of the soldiers rising in our favour , we resolved to march eastward , which we did through ...
... enemy at Lan- ark , on a letter coming to Mr. Welsh from a gentleman at Edinburgh , urging us to draw nearer that place , and holding out hopes of the soldiers rising in our favour , we resolved to march eastward , which we did through ...
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Alison army Assembly battle beauty Blackader blessed blood Bonshaw broken Burley Captain Crichton carabine Carstairs cause CHIG Christ church Church of Scotland Claverhouse Cotterel council Covenant crown Dalzell dark death Earlston earth Edinburgh enemy evil exclaimed eyes faith father fear fire Glasgow glory Haliday Hamilton hands head hear heard heart heaven hills horse Irongray James Sharpe king king's kingdom Kirk of Scotland Knockdailie land Lauderdale lived Lochgoin look Lord mercy minister Miss Welwood morning mother never night numbers once parish Patrick Pentland hills prayed prayer Prelacy prelates Presbyterian prisoner Psalm Quentin Rathillet reached replied Ringan Craigie Rowallan RSITY Rutherglen Sabbath Samuel Rutherford Scottish Scougal seen silence soldiers sorrow soul spirit suffer sword tears thee things thou Tinnergarth tion Traill troopers truth unto Veitch voice wanderers weep Welsh wept Wigton witness words
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Side 36 - And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind : for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
Side 141 - Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
Side 119 - Athenian walls from ruin bare. IV. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunn'd the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen, That labour up the hill of heavenly truth, The better part with Mary and with Ruth Chosen thou hast ; and they that overween, And at thy growing virtues fret their spleen, No anger find in thee, but pity and ruth.
Side 300 - All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch...
Side 236 - And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Side 236 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Side 47 - He calleth to me out of Seir, 'Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?' "The watchman said, 'The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye; return, come.
Side 170 - How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us, that succour want ! How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward : Oh, why should heavenly God to men have such regard ?1 This agrees with what is recorded of St.
Side 282 - I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.
Side 123 - Like stars upon some gloomy grove, Or those faint beams in which this hill is drest After the sun's remove. I see them walking in an air of glory, Whose light doth trample on my days; 10 My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmerings and decays.