 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1843 - 322 pages
...touch nothing so far as helonged to the civil power, hut in other respects would discharge their duty. Soon after, a messenger-at-arms entered the house, and charged the moderator and memhers of Assemhly, on the pain of rehellion, to desist entirely from the prosecution. After serious... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1846 - 524 pages
...proceed against him for any thing connected with the bishopric of Glasgow. Soon after a messengcr-at-arms entered the house, and charged the moderator and members...Stirling, suspending him from the exercise of the mUiistry ; and, having found eight articles of the charge against him proved, declared that he had... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1848 - 570 pages
...touch nothing so far as belonged to the civil power, but in other respects would discharge their duty. Soon after, a messenger-at-arms entered the house,...charged the moderator and members of Assembly, on tho pain of rebellion, to desist entirely from the prosecution. After serious deliberation, they agreed... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1851 - 512 pages
...nothing so far as belonged ' to the civil power, but in other respects would discharge their duty. Soon after, a messenger-at-arms entered the house,...resolved that it was their duty to proceed with the trial ; ratified the sentence of the presbytery of Stirling, suspending him from the exercise of the ministry... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1854 - 512 pages
...in other respects would discharge their duty. Soon after, a messenger-at-arms entered the house, i and charged the moderator and members of Assembly,...that it was their duty to proceed | with the trial ; ratified the sentence of the presbytery of Stirling, suspending him from the exercise of the ministry... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1856 - 506 pages
...touch nothing so far as belonged to the civil power, but in other respects would discharge their duty. Soon after. a messenger-at-arms entered the house,...resolved that it was their duty to proceed with the trial • ratified the sentence of the presbytery of Stirling, suspending him from the exercise of the ministry... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1856 - 542 pages
...presented a letter from his Majesty, desiring the Assembly not to proceed against him for anything connected with the bishopric of Glasgow. Soon after...from the prosecution. After serious deliberation, 1 So Spotswood, in respect of the simoiiia- their right to be heard. OD this occasion cal nature ot... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1861 - 646 pages
...accepting the bishopric." fyiottiswoodt't History of the ChurcJof Scotland, vol. ii. p. 282. 117 " A messenger-at-arms entered the house, and charged the moderator and members of the assembly, on the pain of rebellion, to desist from the process." J/'Crie's Life of Melville, vol.... | |
 | Henry Thomas Buckle - 1861 - 648 pages
...of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 282. 154 Acts of the General Assemblies of the Kirk, vol. ii. p. 548. 15: "A messenger-at-arms entered the house, and charged the moderator and members of the assembly, on the pain of rebellion, to desist from the process." M'Crie's Life of Melville, vol.... | |
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The king sent a letter to the Assembly, requesting them not to proceed against Montgomery for any thing connected with the archbishopric. The answer was, that they would touch nothing so far as belonged ' to the civil power, but in other respects would... 