Conscience, Obedience and an Unwanted Government – Dalkeith Palace – SFH076

Conscience, Obedience and an Unwanted Government – Dalkeith Palace – SFH076

Politics and government often present complex realities. How do you face a turbulent political situation and an unwanted regime with conscience and principle? We visit the Scottish headquarters of Oliver Cromwell’s regime to consider how Covenanters decided to respond to it. There was much soul searching about the appropriate conscientious obedience they could offer. Was it right to submit to an invading power? Could they preserve principles intact while being peaceable citizens who respected authority? Discover some of their answers in this debate about authority, power and obedience.

This episode made use of historical research by Calum Summerill Wright, Scott Spurlock and John Coffey. 

 

Trinity Apse, Chalmer’s Close, Edinburgh – The Journey of the Covenant, Pt5 – SH015

Trinity Apse, Chalmer’s Close, Edinburgh – The Journey of the Covenant, Pt5 – SH015

Matthew Vogan finds the original church building where the people of Edinburgh began to sign the National Covenant. But what does the Old Scots word “Yellach”  (or yelloch) mean?  And why did the people give it?  

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Photo Credit –  © Copyright kim traynor – CC by SA 2.0

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh – The Journey of the Covenant, Pt4 – SFH014

Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh – The Journey of the Covenant, Pt4 – SFH014

What happened when the ministers in the Church of Scotland were of one mind and agreed on a united course of action to stand for true religion, in accordance with their Confession, in order to recover the purity and liberty of the gospel?  Matthew Vogan explains more in part 4 of the Journey of the Covenant.

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Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh – The Journey of the Covenant, Pt3 – SFH013

Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh – The Journey of the Covenant, Pt3 – SFH013

It’s the morning of the 28th of February, and the National Covenant is making its way up the hill to Greyfriars Kirk….

Matthew Vogan continues tracing the Journey of the Covenant from a very noisy Candlemaker Row in Edinburgh, just round the corner from the Grassmarket.

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The Three Sisters, Cowgate, Edinburgh – The Journey of the Covenant, Pt2 – SFH012

The Three Sisters, Cowgate, Edinburgh – The Journey of the Covenant, Pt2 – SFH012

On Tuesday, 27th February, 1638, a group of between two to three hundred ministers met here (the Tailors’ Hall) to consider the draft text of the National Covenant for signing at Greyfriars the next day.  Matthew Vogan traces the Journey of the National Covenant through the most significant surviving buildings in the Old Town of Edinburgh.

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Picture credit – Tailors’ Hall, Cowgate.  © Copyright Kim Traynor (CC2.0)