To uphold or encourage prelacy; to exerciseprelatical functions.
It had simply "divided into two great parties, the Prelatical or Hierarchical, headed by Laud, and the Nonconformist or Puritan.
The points of disagreement increased steadily, each fresh severity from the Prelatical party being met by determined resistance, and a stubborn resolution never to yield an inch of the new convictions.
Like the majority of them, he was of good family and of strong individuality, as must needs be where a perpetual defiance is waged against law and order as it showed itself to the Prelatical party.
Is it possible strenuously to maintain the lawfulness of a prelatical government abjured in the covenants, and yet at the same time sincerely and honestly, according to the profession made by the church, Psal.
At the same time, the Presbytery testify against, as above, all the oaths of allegiance in being, to an Erastian Prelatical government.
Thus, in conformity to the prelatical and anti-christian example, setting to sale the censures of the church, and dispensing with the laws of Christ for money.
See that objection of hearing prelatical men in the time of former prelacy, answered above, Period 4.
The House of Commons displayed their attachment to the puritan maxims, or their dislike of the prelatical clergy, by bringing in bills to enforce a greater strictness in this respect.
Of Prelatical Episcopacy, and whether it may be deduc'd from the Apostolical times by vertue of those Testimonies which are alledg'd to that purpose in some late Treatises of James, Archbishop of Armagh.
Now, if there be no such order as prelatical bishops, consequently they cannot be governments in the church.
Church government may be monarchical in one man; and so, not only prelatical but papal; and consequently, antichristian.
Here is no speech of prelatical bishops, but of ruling and preaching elders in this text.
This prelatical tyranny should not be tolerated by any Danish man.
The carousers spoke openly and boldly against prelatical government, to which they believed they had given a good fillip.
The shutting of the churches was at an end, and the stern prelatical government of the town had been cowed.
The dignity of the prelatical government was upheld, and the arrogance of the insurgents subdued.
The “Auld Kirk” lost more and more its suspicion of prelatical ways.
He was disinterested; but with unceasing industry he studied to exalt the priestly and prelatical character, which was his own.
They thought, that had the bigoted religionists been able to get their heavenly charter recognized, the presbyters would soon become more dangerous to the magistrate than had ever been the prelatical clergy.
Accustomed in all invectives to join the prelatical party with the Papists, the people immediately supposed this insurrection to be the result of their united counsels.
A collection perhaps accurately representing the average prelatical library was that of Richard Browne, running to more than thirty books of the common medieval character (1452).
Of his studies, indeed, we know little: he seems to have sought prelaticalpower rather than learning.
Was not that prelatical government first devised, and since continued, to preserve peace and to prevent schisms in the church?
How will Mr Coleman avoid the involving the Parliament intoprelatical guiltiness by his principles, which we avoid by ours?
Princes and magistrates’ putting off themselves all care of the matters of religion, was one of the great causes of the church’s mischief, and of popish and prelatical tyranny.
There is no hint of prelatical conspiracy in the enticements of Dalila.
But the devil envying the success of the gospel in that quarter, stirred up the prelatical clergy, whereupon the bishop of Down, in May 1632, caused cite him, Messrs.
Hard enough, if he had died in the prelatical persuasion, from those who pretended to be the prime promoters of the same[66].
It is not a Government that hath Lordships and great Revenues annexed to it, as the Prelatical had.
The Prelatical Government with all its Lordships and Revenues annexed, as it was managed of late years in England, was an in-let to Popery, and it had tantumnon brought it in.
Now this grievous disorder, and great iniquity in the Prelatical Government, is the principal cause of all the trouble we meet withal in ours; and we desire earnestly our people to distinguish with us, between a Church deformed, and reformed.
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