 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
 | 1852 - 618 pages
...public character) to no single faith. The declarations of the Scottish Parliament, Jan. 7, 1690, says, " That Prelacy and the superiority of any office in...unsupportable grievance and trouble to this nation." The declaration of the same body, Jan. 16, 1707, says that " Presbyterian Church Government — shall... | |
 | 1854 - 594 pages
...June, 1639, and among their first acts, declared prelacy to " be a great and insupportable grievance to this' nation, and contrary to the inclination of the generality of the people, ever since the Eeformatiou," and they forthwith abolished the same* The Parliament lodged all the power of churchgovernment... | |
 | George Buchanan - 1856 - 686 pages
...the king and queen of England. The principal of these additions were in the form of demands, viz. " That prelacy and the superiority of any office in...church above presbyters is, and hath been a great and Declaration insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - Church of Scotland - 1856 - 506 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...Church above Presbyters, is, and hath been, a great arid insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality... | |
 | William Dunlop - Creeds - 1857 - 224 pages
...peace and tranquillity within this realm; and that by an article of the Claim of Right, it is declared, "That Prelacy, and the superiority of any office in...grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people, ever since the Reformation, they having reformed from... | |
 | John Marshall (minister of the Scottish episc. church.) - 1859 - 496 pages
...we assert is founded on fact, as we have already shewn. The article in the Claim of Right declares that Prelacy, and the superiority of any office, in the Church, above presbyters, was " a great and insupportable grievance, and trouble to this nation." Suppose we grant this, it does... | |
 | Joseph M. Wilson - Presbyterian Church - 1860 - 382 pages
...the Presbyterian form of Church Government was restored : by Act of Parliament 1690 it was declared that " Prelacy and the superiority of any office in...grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation, and therefore ought to be... | |
 | Alexander Brodie, James Brodie - Scotland - 1863 - 644 pages
...cruelty. Well might the Estates, in 1689, addressing William, Prince of Orange, say : " Prelacy and superiority of any office in the Church above Presbyters is, and hath been, a great and unsuppor'able grievance and trouble to the Nation, and contrary to the inclination of the generality... | |
 | Spalding Club, Aberdeen - Scotland - 1863 - 650 pages
...Well might the Estates, in 1689, addressing William, Prince of Orange, say : " Prelacy and superiortty of any office in the Church above Presbyters is, and hath been, a great and unsupporlalle grievance and trouble to the Nation, and contrary to the inclination of the generality... | |
 | George Gresley Perry - 1864 - 674 pages
...their position. In their Claim Right, agreed to on April 1 1, the Convention of Estates declared, " That prelacy and the superiority of any office in...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... | |
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