Protestantism in Scotland - James Aitken Wylie

shouts or their animated looks to the joy with
which they entered into the bond.
In the City of London the spectacle was
scarcely less impressive, but more novel. On the
25th of September, 1643, the two Houses of
Parliament, with the Assembly of Divines,
including the Scottish Commissioners, now sitting
at Westminster, met in St. Margaret's Church,
Westminster, and after sermon the Solemn League
was read, article by article, the members standing
uncovered, and swearing to it with uplifted hands.
Afterwards, Alexander Henderson, who presided
over the famous assembly at Glasgow, delivered an
address ending with these words -- "Did the Pope
at Rome know what is this day transacting in
England, and were this Covenant written on the
plaster of the wall over against him, where he
sitteth, Belshazzar-like, in his sacrilegious pomp, it
would make his heart to tremble, his countenance
to change, his head and mitre to shake, his joints to
loose, and all his cardinals and prelates to be
astonished." The Scots followed up their Covenant
by sending an army into England to assist the
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