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POEMS OF FIGHTING FAITH .. James A. Dickson, Bookstore
was established around forty years ago, in Edinburgh. Now located in Kilsyth,
North Lanarkshire, the company stocks the largest collection of theology
publications with over twenty thousand volumes covering a wide range of both
new and second-hand, antiquarian Christian books, and even now collectable
ephemera. The literary company specialises in the Reformed Evangelical
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Prefacing the 1988 publication .. 'Poems of
From the casting of the stool in 1638 to
Fighting Faith', on behalf of Blue Banner the 'Glorious Revolution of 1688' the
Productions, Dickson's has inserted these faithful of Scotland have stood fast against
illuminating words .. "If the evangel that we the tyranny and cruelty of their oppressors.
believe is the very teaching of the Word of Their compelling aim was to make Scotland
God, then we must remember it, defend it, a free, religious nation.
preach it; we must earnestly contend the
We are apt in this age of toleration and
faith. Sadly in these days there is a great reconciliation to forget these men and women
indifference to the Truth.'
and young people of God, who were willing not
Let us with boldness and with great only to suffer hardship and deprivation, but
enthusiasm, speak and teach and preach and even death itself, for the cause of God.
live the Gospel before a dying world and an The Covenanter's story is an exciting
apostate church. In an age when every man and brave one. For fifty years they
does what is right in his own eyes, in a society fought for the Crown Rights of Christ in
which is decadent and depraved, we need a His church against a succession of
better answer than humanism, or cold Stuart kings who claimed a place for
Churchianity, or any that a change in themselves. In the bitter struggle much
government can provide. What is needed is of the blood of Scotland was sacrificed,
real, vital, Biblical Christianity!
thousands were killed, many of them
Revival does not come by 'working
publicly executed. Thousands more
ourselves up'; it comes when we get back
were persecuted, tortured, imprisoned
to the Truths of the Bible; believe them
or banished as slaves to foreign lands.
firmly, hold them dearly, teach and preach
Mounting the scaffold during 1688 and the
them fearlessly and practice them daily, last public execution in Edinburgh twenty-six
both in our individual and church life.
year old Minister, Martyred James Renwick, is
The Covenanters, as history knows, were quoted as saying .. 'Lord I die in the Faith
men and women who struggled valiantly for that Thou wilt not leave Scotland.'
the freedom of faith during seventeenth
Christ's standard is sadly fallen in our
century Scotland. They had come out of the land today (the same could be equally said
darkness and superstition of Rome and were
for Northern Ireland - our words) .. so let us
determined, that now they had the glorious
gospel, they were not going to be thrust back again and now raise it aloft in the name of
into such idolatry ever again by any pope Jesus Christ by owning the authority of
Scripture and His Lordship over us.
(Roman or English) or King.
One such poem from this enthralling book is entitled - Three Hundred Years Ago 1688-89
There is hope in each heart, there is joy in each home,
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