The Lion of the Covenant

In an earlier blog we mentioned Richard Cameron, who was known as "The Lion of the Covenant." As a brief reminder, his father Alan Cameron was in prison, and one day the guards threw into his cell a severed head and severed hand. They belonged to his son Richard. Alan responded by proclaiming the sovereignty and providence of God even in this brutal execution.

Richard Cameron had returned from exile in Holland in 1679 in order to stand tall for the covenanters in Scotland. In a sermon he preached in May, 1680 he declared that much of Scotland acknowledged Charles as their king, but "We will have no other king but Christ." Cameron and some of his supporters were surrounded and massacred at Ayrsmoss. They severed Cameron's head and hands and affixed them to the Netherbow port for all to see. And, indeed, all of Scotland did see . . . and they said, "There's the head and hands of a man who lived praying and preaching, and died praying and fighting."