The history of many a Nonconforming Church would be the best defence of its existence, and the best evidence of its vitality.
Scotland, was claimed to represent at least eight hundred Nonconforming ministers.
For example, the Act of Uniformity provided not only for the ejectment of the Nonconforming ministers (which was duly carried out), but also enacted that none of them should take scholars without the license of the Bishop.
And to me, the daughter of a Nonconforming preacher, it does not seem wonderful that so many of them should have become stiff and sturdy Nonconformists.
I am as sober as the Nonconforming parson of the church that Miss Castlemaine attends.
Besides, I am told that she belongs to the Nonconforming order of pious people.
The nonconforming clergy threw themselves on the king's compassion, or gratitude, or policy, for relief.
He mentions also his intention to license a certain number of places for the religious worship of nonconforming protestants.
Some of the nonconforming clergy took the oath upon this construction.
The Nonconforming vicar of the church appointed a Nonconformingpreacher to the Episcopal chapel.
They will never prefer the interest of their nonconforming party, before the interest of christianity, or the public good.
Hereupon they will defame the nonconforming ministers last described, as men of no zeal, neither flesh nor fish; and perhaps as men that would save their skin, and shift themselves out of sufferings, and betray the truth.
All this while the nonconforming ministers will be somewhat differently affected, according to the different degrees of their judiciousness, experience, and self-denial.
He substituted common bread for the wafer, and he administered the "elements" to the people while they sat, according to the form still followed in the nonconforming churches of England, and the Presbyterian churches in all parts of the world.
And though the maxims of religious toleration had been always in his mouth, he did not hesitate to propitiate her with the most acceptable sacrifice, the persecution of nonconforming ministers.
From 1571 recusants can no longer be reckoned as nonconforming members of the English Church: the law recognized them as separate from it.
Under his rule nonconforming clergy were deprived and sometimes imprisoned.
It is the only case in a Nonconforming place we have yet had to notice in which there is a weekly celebration.
Mr. Davis, a Nonconforming preacher, formerly of the Kilburn-park Chapel.
In nonconforming congregations there is clearly a general desire to bring up the standard of their musical performances to the requirements of the times, and in several instances this has been accomplished with great success.
After forty years of constantly aggravated molestation of the nonconforming clergy, their numbers were become greater, their popularity more deeply rooted, their enmity to the established order more irreconcilable.
In another passage, Neal states clearly, if not quite fairly, the main points of difference between the church and nonconforming parties under Elizabeth.
