The same tendency is visible soon afterwards at Córdova, where a little conventicle of Molinistas alumbrados was discovered in the Dominican convent of San Pablo, under the leadership of a beata named Isabel del Castillo.
In the little conventicle arrested, in 1708, by the Toledo tribunal (p.
But, in the main, the conventicle exhibits the hideous triumph of a few perverse individuals, who availed themselves of all that was crude and ill-advised in the machinery of the Church.
Whenever he hears that some synod or conventicle has been summoned he trembles with anxiety and expectation of another Soissons.
I'll hae nae whiggery in the barony of Tillietudlem--the next thing wad be to set up a conventicle in my very withdrawing room.
In the fury of the pursuit, the Catholics uncovered the roof, and continued to throw down flaming logs of wood, till they overwhelmed their adversaries, who had retreated to the church or conventicle of the Arians.
The Conventicle Bill passed the Lords, who tagged on to it a proviso Marvell refers to in his next letter, which the Lower House somewhat modified by the omission of certain words.
But the most discerning opinion was, that he did herein as he rowed for having had his face first to the Conventicle Bill, he turned short to the Lord Ross's.
Out of good zeal," he replied; "to help beat and kill the Arminians who were holding conventicle there.
The "Mud Beggars" of the Hague, tired of tramping to Ryswyk of a Sunday to listen to Henry Rosaeus, determined on a private conventicle in the capital.
An Act recently passed, at the instance of James, made it death to preach in any Presbyterian conventicle whatever, and even to attend such a conventicle in the open air.
Under the Conventicle Act his goods had been distrained; and he had been flung into one noisome gaol after another among highwaymen and housebreakers.
But seriously, Lamar, you accused me of wishing to drag you to some conventicle or other; choose for us both; indeed for three, for here comes Damon.
We had the privilege of using Cargill's Bible in 1896, at a Conventicle service held on the Cargill farm.
Here is the picture of one of these thrilling meetings, held on the scene of a Conventicle near Loudon-hill.
This action was taken at a Conventicle held at Torwood early in the autumn of 1680.
An attack was made also on a Conventicle held at Lillies-leaf moor.
What two questions did the Covenanters face in attending Conventicle services?
One glance at the enthusiasm of the Conventicle Covenanters would surely make the present generation blush.
Describe the Conventicleat the Lomond-hills; Lillies-leaf moor; Drumclog.
The Conventiclepreachers were men of dauntless courage.
Welch was a prominentConventicle minister; "a diligent, fervent, successful, unwearied preacher.
Whatever the verses are, buy them up, I beseech you, out of pity; for I hear the conventicle is shut up, and the brother of Achitophel out of service.
I knew of the great Conventicle that was to take place among the hills above Closeburn.
Weary as I found myself, it would be impossible for me to get back to the cave in time for the great Conventicle which was to be held among the Closeburn hills upon the coming Sabbath.
He was making preparations for a great Conventicle to be held among the Closeburn hills early in October.
Internally the synod or conventicle tended to be a small republic, but unfortunately to be a very small republic.
In relation to the street outside the conventicle was not a republic but an aristocracy.
To prevent them from preaching, "The Conventicle Act" was passed, forbidding more than five adult persons to meet together for worship different from the forms of the Church of England, on pain of very severe penalties.
It was enacted that anyone of the age of sixteen or upwards present at an unlawful assembly or conventicle was to incur fine or imprisonment.
A conventicle was defined as an assembly of more than five persons besides the members of a family met together for holding worship not according to the rites of the Church of England.
The Parliament again enforced the Test Act, and renewed the Conventicle Act, making it a capital offence even to be present at a conventicle.
The Conventicle Act only refers to worship, not to service or preaching.
He was accused of professing the Lutheran heresy; of having dogmatized in the Lutheran conventicle of Valladolid, and corresponded with the heretics of Seville.
Thus a man of Realmont in Albigeois who repented of having been present at a Catharan conventicle went to a Franciscan and confessed, accepting the penance imposed of the minor pilgrimages and some other penitential acts.
Then there are Mr. Chesterton and Mr. Belloc and quite a conventicle of smaller fry who have been vainly preaching the same apocalypse for years.
When on the stroke of midnight this uncanny conventicle breaks up, Lasali solemnly pledges himself to his friend Faust to fight the hideous materialism of his co-religionists with the ideals of Social Democracy.
The person in whose house the conventicle met, was amerced a like sum with the preacher.
Captain Graham, afterwards Viscount Dundee, an active and enterprising officer, attacked a great conventicle upon Loudon Hill, and was repulsed with the loss of thirty men.
