How To Use prelacy In A Sentence
- And it is very well known that the government of bishops is not according to the Word of God, but contrar to it, and likeways contrar the second article of the Solemn League whereby we are obliged to the extirpation of prelacy, that is, church government by archbishops, bishops, &c., which we will be obliged by such an oath to maintain and defend. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
- A bishopric was a very small temptation to him, and the commissioner improved his inflexibility to have his life taken away, to be a terror to others, that they might have the less opposition in establishing prelacy. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
- Severe penalties were threatened against "prelacy" and History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6)
- Religious liberty officially stopped short of ‘popery or prelacy’, but in practice was broad.
- The restoration of "prelacy" (the episcopal form of church government) in 1606 by James I, the revival of self governing powers of the Assembly in 1649, its subsequent suspension under Cromwell in 1653 and again after the Restoration, the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- Whereby it seemeth, that either his prelacy did much abuse him in perswading him to hopes, whereof after two or three dayes he saw no semblance: or he like a silly louer, who promiseth himselfe fauor by importuning a coy mistresse, thought by our long being before his towne, that in the end taking pity on him, they would let him in. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
- I couldna say that I had there great pleasure, for the preacher was very cauldrife, and read every word, and then there was such a beggary of popish prelacy, that it was compassionate to a Christian to see. The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
- The apostolic administration is better than the personal prelacy. Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English
- This was, without question, what the managers wanted, and so his trouble began: for, on the 30th of July following, "the lords of council order letters to be directed, to charge William Gordon of Earlstoun to compear before them -- to answer for his seditious and factious carriage:" that was, his refusing to comply with prelacy, and hear the curates, and for his favouring and hearing the outed ministers. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
- It is this prelacy, thus clothed, thus circumstanced, which we swear to extirpate; read else the clause again, prelacy, that is, church government by archbishops, bishops, their chancellors. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation