PuritanZealot
Puritan Board Freshman
Throughout scripture we see that tyrants are to be defied and arms is to be taken up against such leaders that demand we go against scripture.
For some time I have been studying the events prior to the uprising in Scotland of the Covenanters and the subsequent events that led up to the English Civil war and Cromwell taking the fight to Ireland.
What we can see is that the Puritan and Presbyterian faithful at the time felt that Charles 1st and his ilk in the Church were making Papist demands of the Protestant church of england. The introduction of the Book of Common Prayer to Scotland was the flash point and when the government sought to enforce the legality of bringing a common prayer book into the majority Presbyterian churches of Scotland, swords were drawn and war broke out.
Again when the Commons sat and Cromwell demanded that the tyranny of the Kings estate stop, it was the tiniest infringement that caused the Puritan faithful to rise up and demand war, and at Kineton they had it.
What I find interesting is how much times have changed. In the next few weeks the Pope himself is coming to England. He is arriving in London and being greeted, not by the Queen, but by our Prime Minister, the Queen happens to be in Scotland at that time. When she said that the Pope should come to Scotland to meet her, the Government responded that the Queen should come down to London to meet him!!! Our government demanded that our sovereign come down from the north to meet a man we don't even recognise as any authority! This alone would have caused riots in the 17th century, possibly even a civil uprising.
My second point is the actions of the government itself in regards our christian faith. Our Protestant church is attacked all the time and the government attempt to enforce the rights of homosexuals, transexuals and all manner of bizarre heresies in the church in the name of modern equality. The equality minister herself, Harriet Harman, a militant feminist and atheist has said 'times need to change, people need to stop making their decisions by what old books say'. Our government is secular, mostly atheist and mostly anti-Christian. The result of this is the Pope comes across as being the defender of the faith, he stands up against the actions of the government and Christians across the land hail him as protector of our religion!!! THE POPE!
I believe whole heartedly that had any one of these malignant events occurred during the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th or 19th century, there would have been chaos on the streets of Britain.
For some time I have been studying the events prior to the uprising in Scotland of the Covenanters and the subsequent events that led up to the English Civil war and Cromwell taking the fight to Ireland.
What we can see is that the Puritan and Presbyterian faithful at the time felt that Charles 1st and his ilk in the Church were making Papist demands of the Protestant church of england. The introduction of the Book of Common Prayer to Scotland was the flash point and when the government sought to enforce the legality of bringing a common prayer book into the majority Presbyterian churches of Scotland, swords were drawn and war broke out.
Again when the Commons sat and Cromwell demanded that the tyranny of the Kings estate stop, it was the tiniest infringement that caused the Puritan faithful to rise up and demand war, and at Kineton they had it.
What I find interesting is how much times have changed. In the next few weeks the Pope himself is coming to England. He is arriving in London and being greeted, not by the Queen, but by our Prime Minister, the Queen happens to be in Scotland at that time. When she said that the Pope should come to Scotland to meet her, the Government responded that the Queen should come down to London to meet him!!! Our government demanded that our sovereign come down from the north to meet a man we don't even recognise as any authority! This alone would have caused riots in the 17th century, possibly even a civil uprising.
My second point is the actions of the government itself in regards our christian faith. Our Protestant church is attacked all the time and the government attempt to enforce the rights of homosexuals, transexuals and all manner of bizarre heresies in the church in the name of modern equality. The equality minister herself, Harriet Harman, a militant feminist and atheist has said 'times need to change, people need to stop making their decisions by what old books say'. Our government is secular, mostly atheist and mostly anti-Christian. The result of this is the Pope comes across as being the defender of the faith, he stands up against the actions of the government and Christians across the land hail him as protector of our religion!!! THE POPE!
I believe whole heartedly that had any one of these malignant events occurred during the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th or 19th century, there would have been chaos on the streets of Britain.
