Robinson, alarmed the King continually with the Conventicles there.
But this day was diverted and wholy taken up by a speciall report orderd by the Committee for the Bill of Conventicles, that the House be informed of severall Conventicles in Westminster which might be of dangerous consequences.
Neither English prelates nor expounders at dissenting conventicles had aught to say against it.
And in using and frequenting disordered and unlawfulconventicles and assemblies, under pretence and colour of exercise of religion; and I am heartily sorry for the same.
Catholic faith was almost wholly set aside and the people in their secret conventicles had thrown off its yoke.
The Baroni built a stronghold at San Gaggio, beyond the walls, which served as a refuge for the Perfected, and there were plenty of houses in the town where they could hold their conventicles in safety.
They held their conventicles undisturbed, they dared openly to preach their abhorred faith, and their missionary zeal was rewarded with abundant conversions.
Not against the gospel, but against preaching rebellion--The chancellor asked, if he kept conventicles in Fife?
But we hear you keep conventicles since the indemnity.
But he had been killed in battle, so that often like a widowed Jack heron, James Harkness stood at gaze on some hilltop, leaning on his gun, and this was mostly his place at conventicles or meetings of the Societies.
These conventicles as they were called, were denounced by the law, and their frequenters dispersed by military force.
William Gordon, the father, was, in 1663, summoned before the privy council, for keeping conventicles in his house and woods.
Such was the boldness of these preachers that, instead of being contented with secret meetings, they began to hold their conventicles in the fields or in the outskirts of the towns.
In the south at the same time the conventicles were mercilessly suppressed and the preachers driven into exile.
Edict of July," by which all Protestant conventicles are still prohibited, i.
Early in the fifth century we find Chrysostom teaching that heresy must be suppressed, heretics silenced and prevented from ensnaring others, and their conventicles broken up, but that the death-penalty is unlawful.
Under the Roman law, buildings in which heretics held their conventicles with the owner's consent were not torn down, but were forfeited to the Church.
In the conventicles of the capital the lion of Judah was chosen for their military device; arms were prepared, and the day of rising was fixed.
But nowhere did the proposal excite more cordial abhorrence than in the conventicles of the Fifth-monarchy-men.
Even before the tragedy at Magus Muir, a determination to repel force by force had been noted and reported, and conventicles had ceased to be merely peaceful gatherings of unarmed men.
Besides that, my Lord, they tell me that the end of the bridge of Dumfries is in Galloway; and that they may hold conventicles at our nose and we not dare to dissipate them, seeing our orders confine us to Dumfries and Annandale.
On Tuesday was eight days, and Sunday, there were great field-conventicles just by here, with great contempt of the regular clergy, who complain extremely when I tell them I have no orders to apprehend anybody for past misdemeanours.
After seizing the young fellow, who did not deny that he had been enlisted as one of those who were to defend the conventicles in arms, the troopers, instead of returning with their prisoner stabled their horses and fell a-drinking.
At the head of this body of some three hundred men he was entrusted with the difficult task of ‘dissipating and interrupting’ the conventicles in the western and south-western districts of Scotland.
Not only were conventicles as numerous as before, but there were also signs which convinced him that passive resistance was not all he would soon have to encounter.
In Rome and Carthage this question completed the rupture that had already taken place between the conventicles and the Church (de pudic.
Besides, we see from Tertullian's writings that the secession of the Montanist conventicles from the Church was forced upon them.
He denied forming conventicles in which lascivious acts were permitted and he had excluded some persons who would not refrain from them.
After dinner was over, the prelate told him that he must go to church, and leave off holding conventicles at his house, of which great complaint was made.
But the troublesome prisoners baffled his vigilance, and turned their prison into a meeting-house, and held their conventicles in defiance of him.
The persecution of conventicles continued, and ample indemnity was granted for every species of violence that might be exercised by those employed to suppress them.
A merchant named William Carmichael, formerly a bailie of Edinburgh, was one of Sharp's favourites, and one of his numerous commissioners for suppressing conventicles in Fife.
The bands of armed men who assembled at conventicles became so numerous as to have the appearance of an army.
I couldna tell him a lee, ye ken, an' say ye hadna been to conventicles or sheltered the rebels, as they ca' us.
The aldermen were instructed to make diligent search in their several wards for such as held conventicles under colour of religion and inter-meddled with matters of State and civil governance.
Not only were conventicles forbidden, but no one was allowed to visit the ordinary churches after nine o’clock at night or before five o’clock in the morning.
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