So that the more his Primacy is depressed, the more Christ's prerogatives and dignity are lowered; nor can he be confined to a precedency of honour and order, without Christ's superiority being shut within well nigh the same limits.
Is it one limited to a precedency of honour and order?
Now such a relation carries with it not merely precedency of honour, but superior authority.
For I know that all Protestants are possessed with the notion that no other pre-eminence should be ascribed to Peter, on scriptural authority, than one limited to a certain precedency of honour and order.
The sub-title of the book was History of Mistress Williams, and her Plumb Cake; With a Word or Two Concerning Precedency and Trade.
Bishop of, question of his precedency at the Guildhall, i, 257.
I mention this for the sake of several Rural 'Squires, whose Reading does not rise so high as to the Present State of England, and who are often apt to usurp that Precedency which by the Laws of their Country is not due to them.
I come now to that point of Precedency which is settled among the three Learned Professions, by the Wisdom of our Laws.
The Reason is, Because the vicious Believer gives the Precedencyto the virtuous Man, and allows the good Christian to be the worthier Person, at the same time that he cannot come up to his Perfections.
There has been a long Dispute for Precedency between the Tragick and Heroick Poets.
There is infinitely more to do about Place and Precedency in a Meeting of Justices Wives, than in an Assembly of Dutchesses.
I do not find that the Precedencyamong the Individuals, in this latter Class of Writers, is yet settled.
The last Day will rectify this Disorder, and assign to every one a Station suitable to the Dignity of his Character; Ranks will be then adjusted, and Precedency set right.
Prince of Orange's Dispute for Precedencywith the Count d'Estrades, 401.
They are both better clothed, accoutred, and paid, than the troops of the line, and have everywhere the precedency of them.
Cola and Petrarch were the two chiefs of this Roman embassy to the Pope; and it appears that the poet gave precedency to the future tribune on this occasion.
Then the minister of the most insignificant prince claimed precedency over the representative of the most potent republic.
What became of theprecedency of the married lady all this time?
Age the sole foundation of rank and precedency among, ib.
No society, whether barbarous or civilized, has ever found it convenient to settle the rules of precedency of rank and subordination, according to those invisible qualities; but according to something that is more plain and palpable.
Age, the foundation of rank andprecedency in rude as well as civilized societies, 297.
It happened that, in standing up for country dances one night, some dispute about precedency occurred.
My other correspondents will excuse me if I give the precedency to a lady, whose letter, amongst many more, is just come to hand.
On the same principle is founded that common custom of making wives bear the name of their husbands, rather than husbands that of their wives; as also the ceremony of giving the precedency to those, whom we honour and respect.
We may define a CAUSE to be An object precedent and contiguous to another, and where all the objects resembling the former are placed in like relations of precedency and contiguity to those objects that resemble the latter.
It was settled, however, after a vigorous discussion, in favor of the king, whose royal dignity the twelve judges were unanimously of opinion was entitled to precedency over that of the queen.
How gladly would I have paid half a million just then to be the grandson of a baronet with precedency from the seventeenth century!
There is nothing here to show in what order they are to rank among the great officers, or other temporal peers; nor is the precedency given to the Lord Chancellor over the Archbishop of York.
The precedencymust have been regulated by some other laws, rules, or usage than are presented by the Act of 31 Hen.
AS to the Honour and Reputation of this Noble Order, either in Comparison with others, or in Reference to it self, it challenges the Precedency of Antiquity, before the eldest Rank of Honour of that Kind any where establish’d.
It was totally unnecessary--the precedency conveyed following as a matter of course.
In a dispute of precedency between the two factions, his partial judgment inclined in favor of the greens.
Belisarius reposed from his toils, in the high station of general of the East and count of the domestics; and the older consuls and patricians respectfully yielded the precedency of rank to the peerless merit of the first of the Romans.
The mere fact of their descent, in a more remote degree, from the sovereign, gives them in law no precedency at all, although it may be conceded to them by custom, and the respect willingly paid to members of the Royal Family.
As Mr. Greville's pamphlet on the Precedency Question is now rarely to be met with, it may be convenient to reprint it in this place.
And then he goes on to give precedency to Knights of the Garter, Privy Councillors, Judges, &c.
In this patent the king employed his dispensing power, by setting aside the statute of precedency enacted during the former reign.
In this session, the rank of all the great officers of state was fixed: Cromwell, as vicegerent, had the precedency assigned him above all of them.
The order of precedency in England is strictly adhered to, and English matrons declare that it is the greatest convenience, as it saves them all the trouble of choosing who shall go in first, etc.
Your Grace" and as "My lord," their wives deriving no precedency and no title from their husbands' ecclesiastical rank.
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