 | Alexander Brodie, James Brodie - 1863 - 638 pages
...oppression and 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 unsupporiable grievance and trouble to the Nation, and contrary to the inclination of the generality... | |
 | Spalding Club, Aberdeen - 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 Claim Right, agreed to on April 1 1, the Convention of Estates declared, " 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... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1873 - 734 pages
...which the elections should be conducted. They also declared, among other things, " 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... | |
 | Charles Hole, Richard Watson Dixon, Julius Lloyd - 1874 - 614 pages
...April llth, 1689, offering the crown to William and Mary, contained the clause, " 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 the nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality... | |
 | Robert Herbert Story - 1874 - 464 pages
...adjusted ; the " list of grievances " drawn up. In the former it was declared 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 inclination of the generality... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1875 - 602 pages
...settlement, the convention of estates inserted a clause to the following effect: "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 trhis nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality... | |
 | James Geddes Craighead - 1878 - 362 pages
...the basis of the settlement to which they gave their assent, it is asserted '* 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... | |
 | Charles Cowan - 1878 - 578 pages
...render his recantation of Prelacy more clear and unequivocal, he declares — " that prelacie and the superiority of any office in the Church above presbyters, is, and hath been a great and insurmountable grievance and trowble to this nation, and, therefore, that it ought to be abolished... | |
 | James Moncreiff (1st baron.) - 1878 - 714 pages
...expressed in the Declaration of the Estates in 1689, in these memorable words : — ' 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... | |
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Right, it is declared, 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... 
