Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-243) and index.
Contents:
The origins of the idea of a national covenant in England -- Protestation, vow, and covenant -- Covenants and allegiance, 1642-1646 -- Secular contracts or religious covenants? -- Protestation, vow and covenant : the public response -- A covenant for liberty of conscience : the Levellers, the Diggers, and the national covenant -- The covenant, the execution of Charles I and the English republic -- Covenants, oaths and the Restoration settlement -- Epilogue : 'for the preservation of our happy constitution in church and state' : Protestant associations in the eighteenth century.
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