History of the Church of Scotland: From the Introduction of Christianity to the Period of the Disruption in 1843R. Carter, 1856 - 500 pages |
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... seemed to me imperative , I have re- stricted myself within the limits which prevent the possibility of giving more than a tolerably full outline of a subject requiring several volumes to do it justice . Much pe- culiarly interesting ...
... seemed to me imperative , I have re- stricted myself within the limits which prevent the possibility of giving more than a tolerably full outline of a subject requiring several volumes to do it justice . Much pe- culiarly interesting ...
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... seemed the safest policy ; and the people they considered Regiam Majestatem , pp . 11 and 66 . The con- purpose to do more than merely suggest the public aspect of affairs in Scotland previous to the Reformation , leaving its minuter ...
... seemed the safest policy ; and the people they considered Regiam Majestatem , pp . 11 and 66 . The con- purpose to do more than merely suggest the public aspect of affairs in Scotland previous to the Reformation , leaving its minuter ...
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... seemed prosperous ; but a great reverse was at hand . The regent , though a plausible , was a weak and fickle man , liable at all times to be wrought upon and biassed by those of greater de- cision and energy of character . With this ...
... seemed prosperous ; but a great reverse was at hand . The regent , though a plausible , was a weak and fickle man , liable at all times to be wrought upon and biassed by those of greater de- cision and energy of character . With this ...
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... seemed the triumph of the cardinal's power , proved to be the consummation of his guilt , and the knell summoning him to judgment . While the fierce popish fac- tion extolled the zeal and the courage of the cardinal , in thus , by his ...
... seemed the triumph of the cardinal's power , proved to be the consummation of his guilt , and the knell summoning him to judgment . While the fierce popish fac- tion extolled the zeal and the courage of the cardinal , in thus , by his ...
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... seemed already to have marked him out as a dan- gerous opponent , and therefore to be cut off as soon as possible ; but chiefly to aid Rough in the controversy with Annan . Soon after his arrival , the people of the place , together ...
... seemed already to have marked him out as a dan- gerous opponent , and therefore to be cut off as soon as possible ; but chiefly to aid Rough in the controversy with Annan . Soon after his arrival , the people of the place , together ...
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Page 294 - That king James II. having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of the kingdom by breaking the original contract between king and people; and, by the advice of jesuits and other wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom, has abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby become vacant.
Page 239 - We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matters of religion : upon all these topics they had texts of scripture at hand ; and were ready with their answers to any thing that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even among the meanest of them, their cottagers, and their servants.
Page 303 - Presbyterian government throughout the whole kingdom, and several parts thereof, to try and purge out all insufficient, negligent, scandalous, and erroneous ministers, by due course of ecclesiastical process and censures ; and likewise for redressing all other church disorders.
Page 297 - 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 (they having reformed from popery by presbyters), and therefore ought to be abolished...
Page 105 - I must tell you, there are two kings and two kingdoms in Scotland: there is King James, the head of the commonwealth, and there is Christ Jesus, the King of the Church, whose subject James the Sixth is, and of whose kingdom he is not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but
Page 419 - The civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the word and sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven : yet he hath authority, and it is his duty, to take order, that unity and peace be preserved in the church, that the truth of God be kept pure and entire, that all blasphemies and heresies be suppressed, all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline...
Page 419 - There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome, in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God.
Page 280 - He kissed his wife and bairns, and wished purchased and promised blessings to be multiplied upon them, and his blessing. Claverhouse ordered six soldiers to shoot him; the most part of the bullets came upon his head, which scattered his brains upon the ground.
Page 45 - As for the fear of danger that may come to me," continued he, " let no man be solicitous ; for my life is in the custody of Him whose glory I seek. I desire the hand nor weapon of no man to defend me. I only crave audience ; which, if it be denied here unto me at this time, I must seek where I may have it.
Page 237 - Majesty and his successors as an inherent right to the crown; and that his Majesty and his successors may settle, enact and emit such constitutions, Acts and orders concerning the administration of the external government of the Church and the persons employed in the same, and concerning all ecclesiastical meetings and matters to be proposed and determined therein, as they in their royal wisdom shall think fit...