| 单词 | national covenant |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNational Covenant The National Covenant was signed at Edinburgh on 28 February 1638 for the defence of Presbyterianism against the Episcopal system that had been introduced by James I and Charles I. The Solemn League and Covenant was accepted by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on 17 August 1643, and by the Westminster Assembly of Divines, and English Parliament, on 25 September, as a league between England and Scotland on the basis of the establishment of Presbyterianism in both countries. It is to the latter especially that the name usually refers. It is sometimes given also to the Bonds subscribed at Edinburgh by the Lords of the Congregation and their followers on 3 December 1557, and at Perth on 31 May 1559, the object of which was the carrying out of the Protestant Reformation.extracted from covenantn.< as lemmas |
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