 | William Dunlop - 1857 - 224 lehte
...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...Church above presbyters, is, and hath been, a great and unsupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 536 lehte
...superiority of an office in the Church above Presbyters, is and has been a great and insupportable burthen to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of...people ever since the Reformation, they having reformed Popery by Presbytery, and therefore ought to be abolished." When Dundee, with his fifty horsemen, who... | |
 | John Marshall (minister of the Scottish episc. church.) - 1859 - 496 lehte
...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 - 1860 - 382 lehte
...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...Church above Presbyters, is and hath been a great and unsupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality... | |
 | 1861 - 620 lehte
...kingdom and ' forfeited his right to the crown ;' and, further, it declared in memorable words : ' That Prelacy, and the superiority of any ' office...Church above presbyters, is and hath been a great ' and unsupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and ' contrary to the inclination of the generality... | |
 | Alexander Brodie, James Brodie - 1863 - 644 lehte
...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 - 1863 - 650 lehte
...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 lehte
...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...Presbyters, and therefore ought to be abolished."* " It was an absurd thing," says Burnet, " to put this in a claim of rights, for which not only they... | |
 | Reformed Presbyterian Church (Scotland) - 1866 - 308 lehte
...no better reason for abolishing Prelacy, than that "it has been a great and insupportable grievance to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people."1 At the same time 'Hhe King and Queen's majesties do declare, that with the advice and consent... | |
 | Luke Tyerman - 1866 - 522 lehte
...place in Scotland. There Epi.-- copacy was abolished, being a great and insupportable grievance to the nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people. An act was also passed, in 1690, ordaining that all Presbyterian ministers yet alive, who had been... | |
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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... 
