The interests of all sects have always been common, and the sympathy which a maltreated Catholic clergy awakens in the Protestant will soon enough come to light.
Or what else is it, when he uproots respect for the clergy in the people--not only for the Catholic clergy!
The clergy and nobility pleaded their own exemption and refused to impose new taxes on the other orders.
He was alive to the necessity of a zealous and energetic clergy whom he wished trained in the spirit and teachings of the Gospel maxims and counsels, and therefore formed the nucleus of a monastic clergy.
In the Estates General of 1614, he was chosen deputy by his diocese, and was afterward selected by the clergy of the States to present their cahier or vote of grievances to the monarch.
The clergy had not noticed his presence nor asked him into their pulpit.
They believed that their only associates, on terms of equality, should be of their own order, as the clergy or medical profession, representing an educated aristocracy.
But the greater part of the clergy were companions and hangers-on of the rich planters,--examples of that type which Thackeray so well describes in the character of Parson Sampson in "The Virginians.
They held the same position of inferiority in respect to the rich planters which the clergy of England held in respect to the country gentry at the same period.
On the contrary, Hus held it the duty of kings to restrain the wickedness of the clergy and root out simony.
Hurt in pride and pocket, the enraged clergy lodged complaints against Hus as a pestiferous heretic, who had to be suppressed; he lost his position as the Synodal preacher in 1408.
These teachings, he said, made the clergy disobedient and led them to ignore the authority of the Roman Church, made the laity think it was for them to lead the clergy, encouraged the King to lay hands on the property of the Church.
I felt greatly refreshed and truly delighted in various interviews with theclergy whom I met in Rhode Island.
And this, I believe, to a very great extent, the clergyof Michigan are striving to do.
This I heard from all quarters--from clergy and laity, Episcopalians and Presbyterians.
Some of these brethren have gone to the north, and some to the south--some to the east, and some to the west; and yet the character of the Rhode Island clergy continues the same.
The body ofclergy that now come here are going to give character to the Church.
Long before this time the clergy of Connecticut, alarmed at the progress of intemperance, had begun to use influence in getting stringent laws and restraints upon drinking, and the cry of course was, "Down with the laws.
The Connecticut and New England clergydid not thus err.
His vanity led him to make a kind of triumphal journey through the country, where he was generally received as a conqueror, and in some instances by Corporations and the Clergy with flags displayed, ringing of bells, and bonfires.
My judgment is, he and his clergy even envied me in the pulpit, and were jealous of my advancement, timorous that at Court there might be a patron, or a patroness of learning, and apprehensive that I might outstrip them there.
The collection for the Sons of the Clergy amounted to 239l.
Really we might as well say that it is a remarkable circumstance, familiar to people well read in history, but carefully suppressed by the Clergy of the Established Church, that in the fifteenth century England was in communion with Rome.
Because the clergy had declared that resistance to oppression was in no case lawful, he conceived that he might oppress them exactly as much as he chose, without the smallest danger of resistance.
The old Cavalier party, the great majority of the landed gentry, the clergy and the universities almost to a man, began to draw together, and to form in close array round the throne.
The clergy went back, it must be owned, to their old theory, as soon as they found that it would do them no harm.
The immense power of the Clergyand of the Tory gentry frustrated these excellent designs.
Though most of the clergy were Tories, none but Whigs were appointed deans and bishops.
At the very beginning of the reign of Henry the Eighth, a struggle took place between the clergy and the courts of law, in which the courts of law remained victorious.
The one was a struggle of the laity against the clergy for intellectual liberty; the other was a struggle of the people against princes and nobles for political liberty.
As the oath taken by the clergy was in the teeth of their principles, so was their conduct in the teeth of their oath.
It is surprising, that he could have thought it possible, that the eminent Christians, clergy and laity of that church, would accept at the hands of a deist, their form of worship.
It was urged that the Episcopal clergy should be directed to refrain from praying for the king.
I see and hear daily that you of the clergy preach one against another, teach one contrary to another, inveigh one against another without charity or discretion.
Or, are the higher clergy the sole and infallible pillars of the truth?
What say the younger clergy to the expression, clerical trade!
The fatigues of long travelling were so far relieved by addresses from the clergy who marched with their parishioners, and still more by the sacred music which, ever and anon, filled the air.
My dress was quite black, and was far outshone in elegance by that of the clergy of Breslau.
And how many of the clergy are there who can say, that in their choice of a profession, they have not been influenced by similar motives?
The inferior clergy are so securely bound in spiritual and external fetters, that for the greater number it is almost impossible to escape.
The inferior clergy had their synods even in the gloomy centuries of the middle ages, and, when they acted in concert, could give due weight to their desires.
Let us now quote a portion of the address of the clergy of the Cathedral of Breslau.
I prefer the former; but if any of the clergy prefer the latter, it is at all events a remedy which incumbents can afford better than curates.
John, or by associating the rites with the service of the Church, or by the clergy being present at them.
Finally, Christianity was victorious and the powers of the Druids passed in large measure to the Christian clergy or remained to some extent with the Filid.
The Reformers had made the German learned education essentially theological, and the village clergy were, in the estimation of the noble proprietors and peasantry, the representatives of this intelligence.
It was however to the country clergy and their holy office that the maintenance of the German people is chiefly owing.
On other Church festivals the same was done with the legends of the saints, and already in the twelfth century whole pieces were dramatically performed in the German churches, first of all in Latin, by the clergy in the choir.
The Church continued to rouse suspicion against these strollers by repeated decrees; the clergy would on no account see or listen to such rabble, nay, they were denied the right of taking a part in the Christian sacraments.
In the neighbouring towns of the interior, the clergy had as much to undergo.
They bought the glebes, continued to pay their clergy by voluntary assessments, and collected a large sum of money towards a future endowment.
All restrictions on worship, or the number of clergy allowed, had long since fallen into abeyance.
Worse still, it was not infrequent for one band of clergy to make war on another.
It is not truth that the clergy struggles for--they may think it is--but the grim fact remains, it is a fight for material existence.
He wished to be buried in the churchyard at Down, but at his death, by universal acclaim, the gates of Westminster swung wide to receive the dust of the man whom bishops, clergy and laymen alike had reviled.
When Copernicus reached his native town of Thorn, the local clergy turned out in a procession to greet him, and a solemn service of thanksgiving was held for his safe return home.
The clergyof Christendom have stood as leaders of thought, but to hold this proud position they must abandon the intangible and devote themselves to this world and the people who are alive.
And so naturally the clergy hold on to their prerogative as banishers of epidemics.
There are among their clergy many men who are honestly seeking light, and trying to make their institutions a factor for progress.
This was the beginning of the Anglican Church, as distinguished from the Catholic; a beginning of which the Anglican clergy are not so proud as they would like to be.
We see that in these new church activities the clergy are inspired by things read, not in ancient Hebrew texts, but in the daily newspapers.
I read in the papers, as I am writing, how the clergy of Germany are thundering against President Wilson's declaration that that country must become democratic.
The entire Protestant clergy for a score of miles around has been hitched to his triumphal chariot, and driven captive through the streets.
Each cathedral owns large tracts; so do the schools and universities in which the clergy are educated.
Here are the Scotch clergy of the middle of the nineteenth century denouncing the use of chloroform in obstetrics, because it is seeking "to avoid one part of the primeval curse on woman".
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clergy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
