ADDRESS AT WESTMINSTER. By Alexander Henderson, 151 SERMON AT WESTMINSTER. By Thomas Coleman, 159 SERMON AT WESTMINSTER. By Joseph Caryl, 190 SERMON AT LONDON. By Thomas Case, 228 SERMON AT LONDON. By Thomas Case, 265 ORDINANCE OF THE LORDS AND COMMONS, 303 EXHORTATION BY THE WESTMINSTER ASSEMBLY, 307 SERMON AT LONDON. By Edmund Calamy, 312 THE NATIONAL COVENANTS-- CORONATION SERMON AT SCONE. By Robert Douglas, 349 CHARLES II, TAKING THE COVENANTS, 386 THE ACTS RESCISSORY, 398 THE TORWOOD EXCOMMUNICATION, 408 ACT AGAINST CONVENTICLES, 412 THE SANQUHAR DECLARATION, 416 PROTESTATION AGAINST THE UNION, 419 SECESSION FROM THE REVOLUTION CHURCH, 434 _Illustrations._ THE GRASSMARKET, EDINBURGH, _Frontispiece_ GREYFRIARS CHURCH, EDINBURGH, 38 ST. MARGARETS AND THE ABBEY, WESTMINSTER, 130 THE NATIONAL COVENANTS Every person who enters rightly into covenant with God is on the pathway to gladness and honour. He comes into sympathy with Him who from eternity made a covenant with His chosen. He gives joy to Him who loves to see His people even touch the hem of His garments, or eagerly grasp His Omnipotent hand. The Spirit of God on the heart of the believer draws him into the firmest attachment to the Beloved. Under His gracious influence, the bonds of prejudice against covenanting are as green withs and the covenanter stands forth in liberty and in power. So also, when the people of a kingdom together come into covenant with the Lord. In the character of Israel as a covenanted people, there shines out a special splendour. One of the most brilliant events in Judah's chequered history is that in which, in the days of the good king Asa, "they gathered themselves together to Jerusalem and entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul; and all Judah rejoiced at the oath." More than any other nation of modern times, the people of the British Isles resemble in their covenant actings the people of Israel; and Scotland is the likest to Judah. Certainly, Scotland's covenants with God were coronets on Scotland's brow.