While the ordainers were acting, Edward and Gaveston were aimlessly wandering about in the north.
He was steadfast in his prejudices and hatreds, and the ordainers found in him a leader who could at least save them from the reproach of inconstancy and the lack of fixed purpose shown at the parliament of Stamford.
Pembroke and his friends showed themselves as jealous of Edward as ever the ordainers had been.
Ordainers as jealous as Arundel, royalists as fierce as Mortimer, served along with trimmers like Pembroke and Badlesmere, in acting as mediators.
The ordainerslooked upon Gaveston's return as a declaration of war.
Though the ordainers had been appointed by a baronial parliament, the three estates were summoned to hear and ratify the results of their labours.
Twenty-one lordsordainers represented in somewhat unequal proportions the three great ranks of the magnates.
Warenne, whose honour was only less impeached than Pembroke's, also deserted the ordainers for the court.
Under the first of these heads, the ordainers worked out to the uttermost consequences their favourite distinction between the crown and the king.
Four days later the ordainerswere appointed, the method of their election being based upon the precedents of 1258.
Returning to Berwick, Edward lingered there until the completion of the work of the ordainers made it necessary for him to face parliament.
The ordainers then divided England into large districts, appointing one of the baronial leaders to the charge of each.
And the ordainers are the orderly electors and determiners of the person that shall receive the power from Christ.
How many ordainers are necessary to the validity of ordination by God's institution?
If the man be excellently qualified, and his ministry greatly necessary to the church, whoever would deprive the church of him, be it the one or the many, is to be disobeyed, and the ordainers preferred.
Or malignity of the ordainersdepriveth a man of ordination, these three substitutes may notify to him the will of God, that he is by him a person called to that office: 1.
God hath given general rules to the ordainersfor the due exercise of their office, though he have not determined of any set number.
What if the magistrate command the people to receive one pastor, and the bishops or ordainers another, which of them must be obeyed?
Now either God hath determined the case as to the number of ordainers necessary, or not.
The Holy Ghost in the electors and ordainers directeth them to discern the fitness of the persons elected and ordained, and so to call such as God approveth of, and calleth by the Holy Ghost in them.
And if the ordainers did it by letters to a man a thousand miles off, it would be valid: and some persons of old were ordained when they were absent.
Especially when the ordainers shall require this repetition on notoriously wicked grounds, and so put that sense on the action by their own doctrines and demands: as for instance, (1.
By the ordinary help of God's Spirit in the wise and faithful electors and ordainers ever since.
Some think the number of two, or three, or more ordainersto be necessary, and some not.
When, for example, they were summoned to the parliament in which the work of the Ordainers was published in 1311, they sent no proctors.
M217) In the meantime, whilst the Ordainers were engaged on their work, Edward had put himself at the head of his army and marched against the Scots, who were rapidly gaining ground under Bruce.
Ordainers were appointed from among the barons for the purpose of drawing up ordinances for the government of the kingdom.
Whether they are fit to be ministers in general, the ordainers shall judge.
It is worthy of note that the parties who acted as ordainers were not dignitaries, planted here and there throughout the Church, and selected for this service on account of their official pre-eminence.
But the Lords Ordainers superseded the writs, having entirely abrogated all illegal impositions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ordainers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
