This, as you know, is the important point of distinction between the
Covenanter and the Cavalier."
And indeed it must be owned that both my scruples and the words in which I declared them, smacked somewhat of the
Covenanter, and were little in their place among wild Highland Jacobites.
"Yes; but the Scots were cruel compatriots for me, sire; they had forced me to forsake the religion of my fathers; they had hung Lord Montrose, the most devoted of my servants, because he was not a
Covenanter; and as the poor martyr, to whom they had offered a favor when dying, had asked that his body might be cut into as many pieces as there are cities in Scotland, in order that evidence of his fidelity might be met with everywhere, I could not leave one city, or go into another, without passing under some fragments of a body which had acted, fought, and breathed for me.
At the end of his analysis, Hay concludes that the
Covenanter movement failed because its "eyes were ever on the past" while the Presbyterian Church, by adapting to the conditions of its context, grew and spread.
Lanarkshire's Lord Lieutenant Hutchison Sneddon unveiled a cairn in memory of
Covenanter Arthur Inglis at the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Kenilworth Avenue.
The negative word comes from the traditional Korean contract term "gap" (party A, who leads as contractor) and "eul" (party B, who is led as
covenanter) and "jil" is a suffix that negatively refers to particular doing or act.
He cited three supporting texts, but failed to note that the New Testament was the product of an infant church strongly influenced by contemporary Hebrew images of Yahweh as warrior, lawgiver and
covenanter. Yahweh punishes the unrepentant sinner and bargains with those who desire his blessing.
I agree with Helmut Isaak that during the Anabaptist rule of Munster, Menno Simons, priest of Witmarsum, became a fellow traveling "
Covenanter" in the apocalyptic crusade of the Munsterites.
John Coffey makes an important contribution to the surprisingly thin number of serious studies of
Covenanter political thought.
Instead Carlton quotes Sir James Turner (95), a former
covenanter serving in the Scottish Royal Army that officers served only for money.
Uncle Blair is a
Covenanter who clings to his religion, defying the king who claims to be head of the church.
A covenant is a contract in which the
covenanter makes a promise to a covenantee to do or not do some action.