 | John Sage - 1844 - 496 pages
...Prelacy, or the superiority of any office in the Church above Presbyters, was a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary...the inclinations of the generality of the people" for full thirty years after the Reformation. The learned CJ[ilbert] R[ule] thought ho had found one... | |
 | John Sage - 1844 - 490 pages
...PRELACY, AND THE SUPERIORITY OF AST OFFICE IN THE CHURCH, ABOVE PRESBYTERS, WAS A GREAT AND INSUPPORTABLE GRIEVANCE AND TROUBLE TO THIS NATION, AND CONTRARY...THE INCLINATIONS OF THE GENERALITY OF THE PEOPLE, WHEN THIS ARTICLE WAS ESTABLISHED IN THE CLAIM OF RIGHT ? THIS Inquiry is about a very recent matter... | |
 | Thomas Stephen - 1844 - 696 pages
...popular movement, they declared prelacy to be " a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to the nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people." There was no other indication of popular inclination. Such indication could not be collected from the... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 pages
...government, which was, and had been ever since the Reformation, a great and insupportable grievance to the nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people. Lay patronage, abolished in 1649, had been revived after the Restoration, and was now the law of the... | |
 | T. Timpson - 1847 - 714 pages
...superiority of any office in the church, above Presbyter, is, and hath been, a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality * History of the Church of Scotland, vol. iii, p. 438, 439. f Ibid. p. 444. t Ibid. p. 445. of the... | |
 | Jacob Curate (pseud.) - 1847 - 360 pages
...they were not only fools but knaves, to alledge that Prelacy was an insupportable grievance to that nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people, 60 they impudently give them the lie in both : And in truth we must needs commend their policy tho'... | |
 | William Maxwell Hetherington - 1848 - 570 pages
...superiority of any office in the Church above presbyteries, is, and hath been, a great and unsupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary...inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation — they having reformed from Popery by Presbyters — and therefore ought to... | |
 | 1848 - 1128 pages
...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...inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation, they having reformed from popery by presbyters, and therefore ought to be abolished... | |
 | Thomas Mac Crie (D.D., the younger.) - 1849 - 696 pages
...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...inclinations of the generality of the people, ever since the reformation, they having been reformed from popery by presbyters ; and therefore ought to... | |
 | 1850 - 622 pages
...superiority of any office in the church above presbyters, is, and hath been, a great und insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary...inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation, (they having reformed from Popery by presbyters) and, therefore, ought to be... | |
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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... 
