An amazing book compiled to show how -- and especially why (from their own dying testimonies) -- the Covenanters suffered, bled and died. These brave martyrs for Christ laid the foundation for liberty and truth in both church and state.

They have much to say to us today, as Satanic civil and ecclesiastical tyranny is always ready to burst forth -- witness the state sanctioned abortion holocaust; state encroachment into Christian and home schools; legalization of blasphemy in movies, on TV, in newspapers, in music, etc.; Sabbath desecration; whoremongers, liars and covenant breakers in civil office; the legalization of sodomy; the public toleration of gross heresy, blasphemy, idolatry (especially in the Papal antichrist), antichristian religions, satanism, etc.

Though the issues and ferocity of persecution (by the Popes, prelates, and Erastians) were more obvious during the times covered in this book, the message to contemporary Christians could not be clearer: we are involved in a life and death struggle.

Few books are this moving or this edifying -- a real treasure! (1884 ed.).