This again is an import from my other now defunct blog, I'm actually wondering if I got the name wrong below, as I put John Gutrhie, and can't help but wonder if I meant James. If any reader knows, then please confirm or deny. As I'm not sure nor don't know the source of the quote to recheck.
And lest any of you, who sometimes have heard us press the oath of the Covenant and in these lands, should nowadays think it alterable, and look upon it as a thing to be dispersed with, we are, through God's strength, from Scripture, to make out the indissoluable tie of the Coveneant. "Every oath and Covenant of God is a thing inviolable, that is, may not and cannot be broken.But we take the Covenants in this place, to be of men's duties in the land; and for keeping them the better, we take an oath upon us in things that are neither morally evil nor goodm but indifferent. But a man once engaged by oath cannot retract. Though they be not commanded duties, yet once entered into, they must stand for when we open our mouthst of the Lord we cannot go back. [John Guthrie Minister of Tarbolton]
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