In the book Norman Grubb gives an explanation through a Mr. John Purves of the history of the Scottish Covenanters that through the Holy Ghost inspired Rees Howells.

 

Concerning this Deed, Mr. J. Purves, who is the author of Sweet Believing, a book on the Covenanters, has kindly sent us the following note: "Through the Royal Stuarts, their Divine Right of Kings, and their taws and aims in the State Church, the power of Rome overshadowed Scotland almost all of the seventeenth century. At the end of February 1638 the National Covenant was drawn up by spiritual leaders of the land and eagerly subscribed to by many thousands saying', 'In special we detest and refuse the usurped authority of that Roman Antichrist upon the Scriptures of God, upon the kirk, the civil magistrate and conscience of men,' and accordingly setting forth a clear and literal restatement of the Reformed Faith as given in the Confession of Faith of 1580-81. It was the open protest of a nation 'against Popery, and a reasserting of the Scriptural views of the Gospel of Salvation. It solemnly pledged all who signed it to promote evangelical doctrine and discipline in all their Scriptural purity. "Preserved in the Museum of the Corporation of Edinburgh is the great original, a parchment of deerskin with 3,250 names and initials on it, some evidently written in blood. 

 

It was subscribed in Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, February 28, 1638.Copies of this National Covenant were immediately sent all over the country, even to as far away as London, forsignatures. At present there are nearly fifty of those copies known and preserved. It was one of them, greatly treasured, that Mr. Rees Howells saw at Cardoness House, signed by some of those who suffered unto death. Copies prepared for signatures were usually written on large sheets of vellum. The one at Cardoness House is the only printed copy, whose existence is known of.

 

Today Rome is after Scotland. The question is will God find those patriots of our Protestant heritage who will put up a fight to preserve a United Kingdom of equal membership before God that has a Protestant Monarch who truly honours God in preserving a Protestant heritage. It has to be asked why it is that the Scottish independence debate is taking place in a land where Covenanters wrote in their blood to protect us from Roman treaties. It is Scotland before England and Wales that this is taking place for it has been the blood of the covenanters that has protected this land until now so will God find new Covenanters that will make a stand today? 

 

The Bible College of Wales Continuing has been given its call of God to give theological education that the Pentecostal, Holiness and Evangelical peoples of the early twentieth century would have been happy with, an education devoid of the understandings of all secular universities that are all Roman Catholic dominated through higher criticism. In the buying of the second estate of the Bible College of Wales the opposition was again the Roman Catholics. 

 

They had arrived from London to buy the estate but God arranged dismal weather, wet and misty putting off the papal prospective purchasers but the devil looked to convince Rees Howells that by purchasing Derwen Fawr he would be bankrupted! Rees replied to him; “When I was in Scotland, I said if I were to pay £10,000 for Glynderwen and the Catholics were to burn it to ashes the next day, it would still be the best investment I had ever made. So I am not willing to be a bankrupt for Derwenfawr, but I am willing to give the last drop of my blood to save it from the Church of Rome.” 

 

Likewise in North Wales in the re-building of the Bible College of Wales we have been opposed from every Roman Catholic dominated religious front, a Jezebellic group with roots in an eminent Roman Catholic family have looked to expose us before the councils of the world as we have shown in On Fire. We have a Scot on our faculty of Covenanter background, we have a Sri Lankan who has been horrendously persecuted with Brian and I of Rees Howells origin – our hearts are as steel know the battle is great but the battle that is great has already been won on condition that we the body stay connected to the Head. Will you join us in this great fight! 

 

It now looks as if the Bible College of Wales buildings in Swansea have been given to those who embrace Higher Criticism and Roman Catholicism. Certainly the placing of the College under such systems brought about its downfall but are there those who will take these buildings over once won over Catholicism back into its true calling? In the meantime the College is continuing with little resources, little like Rees Howells knew little – the mantle we hold brings the victory over those who would look to dominate us with the vast resources of Christendom. 

 

We need those who like Rees Howells supported the British Constitution against all oppressors, who through intercession brought the conditions for true Jews to reach Israel, who interceded for Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain in which Britain won against all odds.