 That prelacy and the superiority of any office in the Church above presbyters is and hath been a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 4071861Full view - About this book
 | John M'Kerrow - Church of Scotland - 1841 - 986 pages
...Parliament that met after the Revolution, declared prelacy to be " a great and insupportable grievance to this nation, and contrary to the inclination of...generality of the people ever since the Reformation ;" and they forthwith abolished the same. In the second session of the -an e parliament, which met in 1690,... | |
 | William Alexander - Law - 1841 - 638 pages
...treason. THAT the fyneing husbands for ther wives withdrawing from the church was Contrary to law, THAT Prelacy and the superiority of any office in the Church, above presbjters is, and hath been a great and insupportable greivance and trouble to this Nation, and contrary... | |
 | Theology - 1842 - 752 pages
...the continued stream of Scottish ecclesiastical history, ever since the Revolution, been derived — "that prelacy, and the superiority of any office in...church above presbyters, is, and hath been, a great and insupportable grievance to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of ike generality of the people,... | |
 | Patronage, Ecclesiastical - 1842 - 296 pages
...the 13th act, the Estates did claim among other things, as appears by their declaration of right, " That Prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the church above presbyters, is, and has been, a great and insupthe inclination of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1843 - 322 pages
...rather ambiguous mention of the Protestant religion, but inserted a clause in the following terms : " That Prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the Church above Presbyters, is, and hath been, agreat and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Church history - 1843 - 722 pages
...names episcopacy as one — an omission which he never would have made had he entertained the opinion " that prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the church, above presbyters, had been a great arid insupportable grievance and trouble to the nation," as the claim of right alleges,... | |
 | Edward Charles Harington - Scotland - 1843 - 128 pages
...party : and, in April, 1689, the Scotch Convention, in their celebrated ' claim of right,' declared ' prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the Church above presbyters, to be, and to have been, a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to the Scottish nation ever... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - Scotland - 1844 - 696 pages
...meeting of the estates of this kingdom, in their claim of right of the llth of April last, declared Uiai prelacy and the superiority of any office in the church above presbyters is and hath been a great and insupportable grievance to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1844 - 394 pages
...of any office in the Church, about presbyters, is and hath been a great and insupportable grievance to this nation, and contrary to the inclination of...generality of the people ever since the Reformation, they having reformed from Popery by presbyters, and therefore ought to be abolished. Our sovereign... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1844 - 118 pages
...any " Office in the Church, about Presbyters, is and hath ' been a great and insupportable Grievance to this ' Nation, and contrary to the Inclination of the ' generality of the People ever since the Reforma' tion ; they having reform'd from Popery by Presby' ters, and therefore ought to be abolished.... | |
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