The real struggle lay between the group of Auckland laymen and the president, on the qualification to be required of those who should represent the laity in synods, and of those who should select them by their votes.
The chief point about the governor's scheme was the inclusion of the laity in the government of the Church.
Auckland seems to have devised the idea of uniting bishop, clergy, and laity in one chamber.
The organisation and first meeting of the General Synod was followed up by the calling together of the clergy and laity of the various dioceses in local synods--each under the presidency of its bishop.
Before the final ballot, the Bishop of Melanesia broke the silence enjoined on such occasions, and urged the laity "not to let the election go by default.
As to the future, the great task of the Church is, to my mind, the instruction both of the young clergy and the young laity as to the Divine Commission and real nature of the Church.
Good feeling and harmonious co-operation between bishop, clergy, and laity are now everywhere the rule.
Let them, moreover, say to the laity that they sin and transgress grievously by burying bodies in the earth, even in unconsecrated ground, for in so doing they assume to themselves an office pertaining to others.
From the beginning of the Reformation in 1529, two distinct movements had gone on side by side--the alteration of doctrines, and the emancipation of the laity from papal and ecclesiastical domination.
Throughout the whole reaction under Mary there was one point on which the laity never wavered.
The faithful and the faithless among the laity were alike participators in church plunder, and were alike nervously sensitive when the current of the reaction ran in the direction of a demand for restitution.
Amongst the laity present were Lords Kenmare, Fingall, Trimbleston, Gormanstown, and French.
There are already in prison one bishop, one vicar-general, some religious, very many priests, and an immense number of the laity of every class and condition.
He spent a month and a year trying to establish peace, and promulgating rules and good customs in every district, among the laity and clergy.
In 806 they attacked the island again, and killed sixty-eight of the laity and clergy.
We give the testimony of Cambrensis, no friend to Ireland, to prove that neither clergy nor laity benefited by the royal visit.
The Irish annalists call him the greatest destroyer of the clergy and laity that came to Ireland since the times of Turgesius (Annals of Innisfallen).
And such acts of repression cannot reach the laity of the church, even if they touch the clergy.
That is to say, the Church will triumph in temporal affairs, and the laity will obtain the spiritual power.
The priests were building up their Saint-Sulpices, and other heaps of stones, when the laity retrieved Notre-Dame and Saint Ouen.
During that long period neither the researches of the clergy nor the intelligence of the laityhave remained stationary.
Pope, dissolved the monasteries, proclaimed himself head of the church, and allowed the laity to read the Bible, but insisted on retaining many of the old beliefs.
After a while the plays became so popular that the laitypresented them.
In all the Spanish countries, the church had trodden down the laity and taken freedom and responsibility from them more than befell anywhere else in Christendom, making devotion consist in absolute submission.
In the Spanish colonies the Roman Church represented the principle of authority, and impressed it on the minds of the laity by all the sanctions she possessed.
Its worship was more formal, its pressure on the laity far heavier, its clergy less exemplary in their lives.
Or do the laity (who have quite as much to do with these miracles) cheat the clergy?
The clergy and the laity were, during that age, in a strange situation with regard to each other, and such as may seem totally incompatible with a civilized, and indeed with any species of government.
The synod also passed a vote, prohibiting the laity from wearing long hair.
It was a revolt of the laity of Europe against the profligacy and avarice of the clergy.
The more moderate of the Catholic laity saw no difference so great between the English service and the Mass as to force them to desert the churches where their fathers had worshipped for centuries.
He might hope that the English Catholic laity would accept him, but he could not be sure of it.
So too the laity are now admitted to the ranks of the clergy, and secular persons to those of the religious, although they can be saved without this.
The Upasakas were believers, but continued to live in the world, and formed, as it were, the laity of the Buddhistic church.
The liberality of the laity towards the religious is carried to an excess scarcely to be credited.
On these days the priests read the liturgies appointed as prayers for the souls of the damned, and for ten days the laity have to repeat many thousands of times the prayers "Ahuna-vairya" and "Ashem Vohu.
The Epitome adds: "And because such matters concern also the laity and the salvation of their souls, we also confess the Small and Large Catechisms of Dr.
Yet it is a necessity and ordained by the Church for the sake of the imperfect laity and working people, that they also may be able to come to hear God's Word.
The laity have no voice in the election of the celibate priesthood, which is only natural since the celibate priests are not in any way connected with the life of the community.
The participation of the laity in church matters, especially in the election of its officials, is a chief reason for the essential oneness of church and people.
In the inferior courts, the mixture of the laity might serve rather to temper the usual zeal of the clergy.
Justice of God Justification by faith Keys of the Church power of Koestlin Laity Last Day Law of Moses, abolished Lawrence, St. Laws and works produce sects purpose of Legends of saints Leipzig Disputation at Leo X.
Two more points need to be mentioned,--the withholding of the cup from the laityand the number of the sacraments.
To repress these arguments and scruples of the laity by force alone, and not to resolve them by giving reasons, is to expose the Church and the pope to the ridicule of their enemies, and to make Christians unhappy.
The objections of the laity of the indulgence-traffic (Th.
Roman Catholic laity felt severely the oppression which the Priests exercised over them, and would be willing to give evidence.
The Conference proper of Wesleyanism is composed entirely of ministers, but preceded by “General Committees,” where the laity are admitted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
