When I imported my wordpress posts to here, not all of them did import. This is one such post and its a subject much on my mind today, because even ~some~ covenanters do not have the Covenanter Standard. It takes more than covenanter theology to make a covenanter it takes the heart and spirit and nobility of it too. If we just rely on our theology to represent us being covenanters, then we are little different to Mr Talkative in Pilgrim’s Progress. People who claim covenanting as their faith, should posses the noble spirit of those brave men and women yet I have seen up close and personal how this is not so in all cases. Including just again recently, when I revisited soemthing to try and tie up loose ends and got the ungodly, unchrist like response that I was used to getting from that source. If the Covenanter wars today, were current. I think with that kind of example of covenanters today, they may just be in a lot of trouble.

The standard of religion adopted by the Covenanted Church demands that
Covenanters possess the noblest spirit. They, who rally in earnest under
this banner, will be men after God’s own heart. Such were the martyrs:
kind, patient, self-sacrificing, passionately in love with Christ, and
laboring diligently to bring others into the same sphere of blessedness.
They were strong, heroic, and unconquerable; affectionate, intelligent,
filled with veneration for God, and aflame with zeal for His House.
Those Covenanters knew that they were redeemed, and gloried in their
relation and obligation to the Lord Jesus Christ, their Almighty
Redeemer. They flew into every service at His command. Their obedience
was accompanied with much assurance of salvation. They had heaven on
earth. The heaven of glory was merely an extension of their vista, an
enlargement of their horizon, higher up the mountain that they were
climbing, more spiritual ozone in the air they were breathing. They
dwelt with God, lived in Jesus Christ, felt the raptures of the Holy
Spirit; they knew the mystery of the cross, the value of the Blood, and
the power of the spiritual resurrection. Therefore were they swallowed
up in love to God and man. Are we amazed at the divine beauty of the
martyr’s life? Let us have the same heartiness, the same vision of God,
the same joy in the Holy Spirit, and we will have the key to the
nobleness of the martyr. The Covenant with God, when kept, produces
holiness, tenderness, charitableness, and divinest sympathy; turns life
into an overflowing fountain of goodness. They, who follow the Banner of
the Covenant in spirit and in truth, will aim at the very climax of
Christian character, moral culture, and heroic service through Jesus
Christ. [From Sketches of the Covenanters by J.C. McFeeters]

Till we get that same standard back, there will be no reviving of the Covenants I believe, in Scotland nor any place else. If we claim to be Covenanters, then lets please have their spirts and hearts and nobility, or not claim to be so.