Scottish Presbyterianism

"Accordingly he (the Scottish Presbyterian, Richard Cameron—ed.) was ordained by Mr. M'Ward, Mr. Brown, and Roleman, a famous Dutch divine. When their hands were lifted up from his (Richard Cameron's—GB) head, Mr. M'Ward continued this still and cried out, 'Behold all ye beholders, here is the head of a faithful minister and servant of Jesus Christ, who shall lose the same for his master's interest, and it shall be set up before sun and moon, in the view of the world.' ... On July 22, 1680, faithful Richard Cameron was martyred in Airsmoss. His head and hands cut off and taken to Edinburgh, just as Robert M'Ward had spoken. Before his murderers committed the barbarous act of publicly displaying his head and hands upon the Netherbow Port, they first had one further act of antichristian cruelty to enact. His father being in prison for the same cause, they carried them (Cameron's head and hands—GB) to him, to add grief unto his former sorrow, and inquired at him if he knew them. Taking his son's head and hands which were very fair — being a man of fair complexion like himself — he kissed them, and said, 'I know, I know them; they are my son's — my own dear son's. It is the Lord — good is the will of the Lord, who cannot wrong me nor mine, but hath made goodness and mercy to follow us all our days.' After which, by order of the Council, his head was fixed upon the Netherbow Port, and his hands beside it with the fingers upward.'" - John Howie, The Scots Worthies, 1781, pp. 423, 428–429, as cited in Greg Barrow's The Covenanted Reformation Defended.

"Dear friends, spectators, and (if any of you be) auditors, — I must tell you that I die a Presbyterian Protestant. I own the Word of God as the rule of Faith and manners; I own the Confession of Faith, Larger and Shorter Catechisms, Sum of Saving Knowledge, Directory for Worship, etc.; Covenants, National and Solemn League; Acts of General Assemblies, — and all the faithful contendings that have been for the work of reformation. I leave my testimony approving the preaching of the Gospel in the fields, and the defending the same by arms. I adjoin my testimony to all that hath been sealed by blood, shed tither on scaffolds, fields, or seas, for the cause of Christ. I leave my testimony against Popery, Prelacy, Erastianism, etc.; against all profanity, and everything contrary to sound doctrine; particularly against all usurpations made upon Christ's right, who is the PRINCE OF THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, who alone must bear the glory of ruling His own kingdom, the Church; and, in particular, against the absolute power usurped by this usurper, that belongs to no mortal, but is the incommunicable prerogative of JEHOVAH, and against this toleration flowing from that absolute power." - The last words of the faithful Scottish Presbyterian and Covenanter minister and martyr, James Renwick, upon the scaffold — from J.H. Thompson, A Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ Being the Last Speeches and Testimonies of those Who Have Suffered for the Truth in Scotland Since... 1680.

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