. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . said: Tie was one of the stiffest maintainersof his principles that ever came before us. Others weused always to cause one time or other to waver, buthim we could never move. Where we left him, therewe found him; we could never make him yield or varyin the least. He was the man wq have seen mostplainly and pertinaciously adhering to the old way ofPresbyterian government, who, if he had lived inKnoxs days would not have died by any laws then inbeing. This martyrdom of James Renwick, who gave hisblood for the
. The blue flag; or, The Covenanters who contended for "Christ's crown and covenant" . said: Tie was one of the stiffest maintainersof his principles that ever came before us. Others weused always to cause one time or other to waver, buthim we could never move. Where we left him, therewe found him; we could never make him yield or varyin the least. He was the man wq have seen mostplainly and pertinaciously adhering to the old way ofPresbyterian government, who, if he had lived inKnoxs days would not have died by any laws then inbeing. This martyrdom of James Renwick, who gave hisblood for the Covenant at the age of twenty-six 3ears,was the last; for before the year (1688) was out theday of deliverance came, and Scotland was free. CHAPTER !—The Revolution of 1688. 17 ING JAMES II., who was a Roman Catholic, and-^^ the dream of whose Ufe, for a long time, hadbeen to reintroduce into England and Scotland thesupremacy of the Pope, concluded, after he had gottenrid of Argyle, Monmouth, and other stout opposersof his policies, that the day was approaching when he. The Conflict Over. might proceed with his cherished plans. He beganby pretending to adopt a lil)eral i)o]icy towards all thosewhom he had persecuted, and repealed some oi theobnoxious laws under which they had suffercvl so people soon found out that this was but a steptowards the establishniciu ni Roman Catholicism as REVOLUTION OF 1688. 123 the reliofion of Eno-land and Scotland. As soon as thisidea got abroad, Protestants of every denomination andclass felt that the time had come for all parties to cometogether to save the nation, and that all differencesmust be sunk in prospect of such an appalling catas-trophy as the restoration of Romanism. James plotunited at once the Protestant people of England andScotland as they had never been united before, in onesolid avalanche, which nothing could resist. Theypurposed to depose the infamous King and to put Wil-liam of Orange, a Dutch Presbyteri
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