17th Century Scottish Magistrates Understood Something 21st Century R2Kt Virus Types Don’t Understand

Parliament of Scotland

[21. Act aginst the Crime of Blasphemy].

” OUR Soveraign Lord, and the Estates of Parliament considering that hitherto there hath been no Law in this Kingdom, against the horrible crime of Blasphemy, Therefore, His Majestie, with advice of His said Estates, Doth hereby Statute and Ordain. That whosoever hereafter, not being distracted in his wits, shall rail upon, or curse GOD, or any of the Persons of the blessed Trinity, shal be processed before the chief Justice; and being fpund guilty, shall be punished with Death.”

THE LAWS and ACTS Made in the FIRST PARLIAMENT of Our most High and Dread Soveraign, CHARLES THE SECOND, etc. Holden at Edinburgh the first of January, 1661 etc. Edin 1683. no page numbers

A Solemn Testimony Against Toleration, etc. By the Commissioners of the General Assembly 1649

[Punishment of idolaters capital; perpetuity of this law].

“As the Lord by his servant Moses, in the xviiith of Deuteronomy, requires of him that shall reign over his people, that he have a copy of the law of the Lord by him, and that he read therein all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, and to keep all the words of that law; so in the xiiith of that book he gives a command to put to death the false prophe, and the brother that speaks to his people to turn them away from the Lord their God; and the reasons taken from the nature of the duty, whereby he persuades unto the obedience thereof, are perpetual and no less binding unto us now, than to them of old.”

Reprinted in Faithful Witness-Bearing Exemplified: Kilmarnock1783. p. 74.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

2 thoughts on “17th Century Scottish Magistrates Understood Something 21st Century R2Kt Virus Types Don’t Understand”

  1. At our weekly Scripture study, we have been listening to J. Steven Wilkins Christian Hisotry of America. Last night’s selection dealt with the grievous errors of Roger Williams and those who followed him. It’s amazing how much the current thoughts of Americans reflect those same anarchistic errors.

    Those infected with R2Kt absolutely hate what you have posted here, as it would bring many of them under peril of the sword in a society where YHWH and His Christ are covenantally acknowledged by the State and the people as Sovereign.

    Good posting, Pastor Bret.

    Jim K.

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  2. Jim,

    I’ve listened to that series… it’s quite good. Indeed, I think I own that series.

    Yes, Roger Williams should be America’s patron nutcase saint. He won the field. Now, never mind that he really didn’t accomplish what he thought he accomplished but he had made nearly everybody think that is what has been accomplished.

    If you want a book that will raise your blood pressure and make the case that all this is good read, “The Reformers and Their Stepchildren.” The contradictions in that book are so thick that you can cut them with a spoon but I doubt very few see the shell game that Verduin is playing in that book.

    Thanks for your encouragement,

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