1647 SCOTTISH COVENANT. Reasons for the University of Oxford's Resistance to the Solemn League. Reformer Magistracy is of God and

Magistracy is of God and powers that be are ordained of God

and to the National Covenant of Scotland: and to the Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Nations

most likely by the adversary

“Oh that is his share

The Refuge

1647 SCOTTISH COVENANT. Reasons for the University of Oxford's Resistance to the Solemn League. Reformer Magistracy is of God andVery rare item; at the rise of Cromwell and the Presbtyerians Westminster Assembly of Divines, moves were made to bring the universites under the Negative Oath and Solemn League and Covenant's influence. Cambridge had long been a Puritan strong hold. Oxford, not so much. The present rare tractate, argued by important faculty and leadership at Oxford, argues against compliance with the Covenant and the influence of the Cromwellian Parliament.