Wycliffe held that the church was corrupted by wealth; that only those in grace had a right to God's gifts, and that temporal power belonged only to laymen and not to popes nor priests.
Anselm while at Rome heard the investiture of prelates by laymen denounced, and he maintained the papal decree against Henry I.
Elizabeth plundered it, and laymen who owned the rectories formerly held by monasteries followed her example; bishoprics were impoverished by the queen and parish cures by her subjects, and the reform of abuses was checked by self-interest.
Hugh Price Hughes, Dr Berry of Wolverhampton, Dr Mackennal of Bowdon, and Dr Munro Gibson of London, along with laymen like Sir Percy Bunting and Mr George Cadbury.
In the same way, the Church of England has been crying out for some method of using the spiritual gifts of her laymen in church.
Our English schisms have been caused at least as much by over-eager laymen as by over-eager clergy; and I think if it were left to the clergy alone the process of reuniting would be very rapid.
But after all, why should such a state of things be thought so very strange, when laymen have the example of the priest.
We say, is it strange that laymen should hold human life of little value when their spiritual leaders do the same.
In 802 he further commanded that "laymen shall learn thoroughly the Creed and the Lord's Prayer" (R.
Five Earnest Laymen for the Poore Boys of the Parish," it was the sixth of its kind in England.
Priests and parsons, laymen and lawyers, took part in this general politico-religious controversy, in which every possible subject of difference between Catholic and Protestant was publicly discussed.
The rupture between the clergy and the laymen of the Council was now complete.
These abuses were generally admitted and occasionally attacked by churchmen and laymen alike,--even by the poets.
Hitherto Wyclif had simply protested against the external evils of the Church without much effect, although protected by powerful laymen and encouraged by popular favor.
A Church is not a fraternity of priests; it is a moral community formed by all the believers in a single faith, laymen as well as priests.
Thus among the Euahlayi, while all the magicians have individual totems from which they get their powers, there are a great number of laymen who have none at all.
The only laymen summoned to this council, which decided the fate of the crown, were the Londoners; and even these were required not to give their opinion but to submit to the decrees of the synod.
The celibacy of priests was enjoined, a point which it was still found very difficult to carry into execution; and even laymen were not allowed to marry within the seventh degree of affinity [u].
He wrote against infant baptism and asserted that laymen might preach the gospel.
The first exact question which it seems to me such an assembly may be earnestly called upon by laymen to solve, is surely axiomatic: the definition of themselves as a body, and of their business as such.
I should think if the Academy is to become an available school, laymen cannot be joined in the management of that particular department.
Introduction of laymeninto the Academy deprecated under present circumstances, and why.
Have you formed any opinion upon the expediency of intrusting laymen with some share in the management of the affairs of the Academy?
More deep-laid machinations were carried on by several catholic laymen at home and abroad, among whom a brother of Lord Paget was the most prominent.
Recent Burial Acts (which see) have lately given power to laymen to conduct funeral services even in the consecrated Churchyard.
Now it was too that he made his second great mistake of consecrating an English Clergyman as bishop, and two laymen as presbyters of the American Societies.
I conclude, on the whole, that laymen have, or need to have, no want of the clergy in examining and analysing the religion they profess.
Such temporal war and bate As now is made of late Against holy church estate, Or to mountain good quarrels; The laymen call them barrels Full of gluttony and of hypocrisy, That counterfeits and paints As they were very saints.
They were too well schooled in the tricks of reservation; and, for the nonce, it was necessary to reverse the posture of the priest and of his flock, and to set the honest laymen to overlook their pastors.
It defended bishops who refused to accept the Bull /Unigenitus/ against the Pope, tried to prevent the orthodox bishops from suspending appellant priests, and forbade the exclusion of appellant laymen from the sacraments.
Such reforms as these were so completely inadequate that they failed to give satisfaction to the host of clerics and laymenwho desired a thorough reform.
The dispute in Naples regarding the Sicilian Monarchy was settled by the appointment of a mixed tribunal composed of laymen and clerics, presided over by a cleric for the settlement of ecclesiastical affairs.
Good reason have our writers to hold against Papists, that laymen ought to have place in councils wherein things which concern the whole church are to be deliberated upon.
Five noble women of the laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church have been chosen as delegates to this General Conference under the Constitution and by the forms prescribed by the laws of the Church.
And let the laymen of this General Conference remember that they are in this body to-day by reason of the votes of the women of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Sez I, in fearful dry axents, almost husky ones, "It seems to take quite a knack to know jest when the word laymen means men and when it means wimmen.
In all these respects they have been regarded as laymen from the beginning.
They were good enough to elect laymen to this body, but not good enough to take seats with laymen in this body.
With what consistency can laymen accept seats by the votes of the women and then deprive women of their seats?
In the practical work of the Church, and in the administration of its laws, women have been regarded as laymen from the beginning until now.
The Church universal in all ages has always divided its membership into two great classes, and two only, the clergy and the laymen, using the terms laity and laymen synonymously and interchangeably.
So our laymenalso ought, therefore, to be content with one sacerdotal part, the one form.
In the Council of Rheims, laymen were forbidden from bearing the sacrament of the Body to the sick, and no mention is there made of the form of wine.
Although, however, both forms were of old administered in many churches to laymen (for then it was free to commune under one or under both forms), yet on account of many dangers the custom of administering both forms has ceased.
In his New York congregation were many of the best brains and fervent hearts to be found in that city, and some of the leading laymen revered him as their spiritual father.
In the immense crowd were two hundred ministers and the foremost laymenof the city.
Mr. Percevals of the Church which they love and admire see no proof in their evidence, and look down upon them as the mere preaching laymen of a sectarian corporation.
Laymen of the Free Church, the battle of Scotland has already begun; and 'tis a battle better worth fighting than any other which has arisen within the political arena since the times of the Reform Bill.
In neither body does the attitude assumed by the ecclesiastical element in this question, so far as has yet been indicated, appear of a kind which plain, simple-minded laymen will delight to contemplate.
From the contributions of our laymen can the scheme alone derive its support; and if our leaders lay it down on a large scale, and our laymen contribute on a small one, alas for its solvency!
In 1096 Boniface issued the famous bull Clericis Laicos, forbidding laymen (including monarchs) to levy subsidies on the clergy without papal consent and prohibiting the clergy to pay subsidies so levied.
Also, it is not fitting that laymen should enter upon the pilgrimage without the blessing of their priests.
You have given to laymen the authority over priests, whereby they condemn and depose those whom the bishops have put over them to teach them.
However, my sojourn among, and intimate dealings with, both laymen and priests give me hope that the following is in its essentials a true interpretation of this primitive religion.
The priest is, in fact, either alone or aided by others of his kind, the officiant in nearly every religious ceremony; laymen merely sit round and take desultory interest in the ceremonial proceedings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "laymen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
