The Conventicle and Five-mile Acts followed, and the 'Drunken Parliament' restored Episcopacyin Scotland.
As Lord High Commissioner for Scotland and Commander-in-chief, he was mainly responsible for the unfortunate methods of forcing episcopacy on Scotland.
And none that reject Episcopacywould care to inquire whether or not there was any such necessity.
None that are founded in Episcopacy could ever {728} admit a necessity without supplying it in the appointed way.
Episcopacy was an exotic in the backwoods; it did not take real root in Kentucky till long after that commonwealth had emerged from the pioneer stage.
A more decided party now added a demand for the abolition of episcopacy and the establishment of Presbyterianism and of the complete Calvinistic discipline.
He was a warm supporter of episcopacy and the Prayer Book.
On the other hand, there was a party which believed that the abolition of episcopacy was the only possible remedy for ecclesiastical tyranny.
Such were the best of the English Puritans, so called because, though they did not insist upon the abolition of Episcopacy or the establishment of the Calvinistic discipline (see p.
The Covenanters, as those were called who denounced episcopacy as a breach of the Covenant (see p.
A majority in the Commons supported a bill, known as the Root and Branch Bill, for the abolition of episcopacy and for the transference of their jurisdiction to committees of laymen in each diocese.
The cavaliers wanted to restoreepiscopacy and the Prayer Book.
In struggling against episcopacy they were in fact struggling against any breaking-up or impeding of that religious organization which alone enabled Scotland to withstand the claims of the Crown.
A growing party demanded the abolition of Episcopacy altogether.
Episcopacy was abjured, the bishops were deposed from their office, and the system of Presbyterianism re-established in its fullest extent.
The cause of episcopacy was ruined by his triumph.
The bitter resentment stirred in the emigrants by persecution at home was seen in their abolition of Episcopacy and their prohibition of the use of the Book of Common Prayer.
To save Strafford and Episcopacy Charles listened in the spring of 1641 to a proposal for entrusting the offices of state to the leaders of the Parliament.
Leighton, the father of the saintly archbishop of that name, had given a specimen of their tone at the outset of this period by denouncing the prelates as men of blood, Episcopacy as Antichrist, and the Popish Queen as a daughter of Heth.
The Judgment of Doctor Rainoldes touching the Original of Episcopacy more largely confirmed out of Antiquity, by James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh.
It was alleged that the whole episcopacy should be regarded as one, and that each bishop constituted an integral part of the grand unit.
It has been already stated that, except in a few great cities where there were several Christian congregations, the introduction of Episcopacy produced a very slight change in the appearance of the ecclesiastical community.
Maurice, in his work on Diocesan Episcopacy in reply to Clarkson, admits (p.
The episcopacy is one," says Cyprian, "it is a whole in which each enjoys full possession.
Where Christians formed only a single congregation Episcopacy made little change, 575 The bishop the parish minister, ib.
That ordinance implied that episcopacywas condemned and done with, and it convoked the assembly for the express purpose of considering, among other things, what should be put in its stead.
Publication of the National Covenant by the Scots; they declareEpiscopacy abolished.
But the blood of that Popish inquistior, Laud, will soon flow on the scaffold, and be a cleansing stream over a foul garment; and with him episcopacy shall be coffined up and buried without expectation of a resurrection.
When Charles was captured in 1646, the episcopacy of the bishops was abolished.
The episcopacy of the bishops and the Book of Common Prayer were restored.
A second return that episcopacy makes to royalty, is that which is the duty of all Christians, the paying tributes and impositions.
Episcopacy Asserted, [20] in which he clearly refers to this very question as relying on tradition for its clearness?
Episcopacy needs not rash assertions for its support.
Antiquity knew of no canonical institution or oath of fidelity to the Roman pontiffs, to which they would subject the episcopacy in these latter times, and by which they restricted its divine and original authority.
Nor will We cease, till we pull down Episcopacy and the Crown.
If you read (in Ignatius' seven certainly genuine letters) of Episcopacy and of the Eucharist, you may think him a wrong-headed enthusiast.
Anyone in that world who saw such an institution as Episcopacy (for instance) or such a doctrine as the Divinity of Christ to be a novel corruption of originals could have, and would have, protested at once.
Commissioner for Scotland, under whom Presbyterianism was overturned andEpiscopacy set up in its place (1661).
In the State the revolt was from monarchy to democracy: in the Church, from Episcopacy to Presbyterianism.
The parliament, perceiving that Episcopacy was the bulwark of the king's tyranny and hostile to the interests of the people, attempted to abolish that system of Church government.
In that light which fell like the glory of heaven upon Scotland, Episcopacy appeared in its real strength, or rather in its weakness; in comparison with Presbyterianism it was a mere faction.
Morton attempted to introduce Episcopacy into the General Assembly.
How did the state make use ofEpiscopacy in the battle with Presbyterianism?
