 | Alexander Brodie, James Brodie - 1863 - 644 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Reformed Presbyterian Church (Scotland) - 1866 - 308 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | James Moir Porteous - 1872 - 614 sider
...ratified the ' Confession of Faith,' and Presbyterian Church government. In this last it is declared, ' That Prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the Church above presbyters, is abolished. Therefore, their Majesties do establish, ratify, and confirm the Presbyterian Church government... | |
 | Thomas Wright - 1873 - 734 sider
...to the manner in which the elections should be conducted. They also declared, among other things, " that prelacy and the superiority of any office in...generality of ! the people ever since the reformation (they j having reformed from popery by presbyters), and therefore ought to be abolished ; that , it is the... | |
 | Charles Hole, Richard Watson Dixon, Julius Lloyd - 1874 - 614 sider
...Scottish Parliament, on April llth, 1689, offering the crown to William and Mary, contained the clause, " That prelacy and the superiority of any office in...a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to the nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Eeformation... | |
 | 1874 - 832 sider
...by a select committee, and adopted by the Convention of Estates. One of the declarations in it is, that Prelacy and the superiority of any office in the Church above Presbyters is, and has been, a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and therefore ought to be... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - 1875 - 602 sider
...of the Revolution settlement, the convention of estates inserted a clause to the following effect: "That Prelacy and the superiority of any office in...a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to trhis nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation,... | |
 | James Frederick Skinner Gordon - 1875 - 558 sider
...the Claim of Eight had declared — That Prelacy is and hath been a great and insupportable grievance to this Nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the Generality of the People ever since the Eeformation (they having reformed from Popery by Presbyters), and therefore ought to be abolished.... | |
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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,... 
