How To Use prelacy In A Sentence
- Interviewer: Excuse me for interrupting, Your Excellency, you mean a personal prelacy... Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English
- In the first place, a personal prelacy is not necessariy governed by a bishop. Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English
- It appears as if the most extreme of anti-episcopal theologies is now wedded to an American ecclesial body distinctive precisely through its commitment to ‘prelacy.’
- But finding little encouragement this way for any who could not in conscience join with prelacy, or the prevailing defections of those called the indulged, he took a resolution, and went over among others to Holland (shortly before or after Bothwel) for the further improvement of his studies, where he continued some short time, and then returned home to his native country. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
- There are many puritans in Lower Potawatomi Valley, who are possibly descendants of those who long ago opposed ceremonial worship and the prelacy of the Church of England.
- They therefore insisted as a term of the agreement that the English agree to fight to extirpate "prelacy". Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
- Initially this was limited to the ‘prelacy’ of Anglican episcopacy; but in time he turned against Presbyterian religious/political ordering, and later against other forms of religious control.
- _ If it be yet objected, that the members of parliament have, at one time or other, sworn to preserve the laws; and therefore to swear to endeavour the extirpation of prelacy, which is established by law, is to contradict their own oath and run the hazard of perjury: it is easy for any one to observe and answer. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
- Independents, who believed that each local congregation of Christians should be practically free, excepting that "prelacy" (_i. e._, the episcopal form of church government) and "popery" (_i. e. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
- And it is very well known that the government of bishops is not according to the Word of God, but contrar to it, and likeways contrar the second article of the Solemn League whereby we are obliged to the extirpation of prelacy, that is, church government by archbishops, bishops, &c., which we will be obliged by such an oath to maintain and defend. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
