5 September 1685 A.D. Scots Covenanter Slaves
5 September 1685 A.D. Scots Covenanter Slaves Myers, David T. “September 5: Covenanter Slaves.” This Day in Presbyterian History. 5 Sept 2014. http://www.thisday.pcahistory.org/2014/09/september-5/ . Accessed 5 Sept 2014. September 5: Covenanter Slaves A Final Covenant Twenty-eight Presbyterians signed a final covenant on the eve of their departure from Leith, Scotland in early September, 1685 . It said in part, “That, now to leave their own native and Covenanted land by an unjust sentence of banishment for owning truth and standing by duty, studying to keep their Covenantal engagements and baptismal vows, whereby they stand obliged to resist and testify against all that is contrary to the Word of God and their Covenants; and that their sentence of banishment ran chiefly because they refused the oath of allegiance which in conscience they could not take, because in so doing they thought utterly declined the...