The Church History Of Scotland From The Commencement Of The Christian Era To The Present Time PDF Download

Excerpt from The Church History of Scotland From the Commencement of the Christian Era to the Present Time, Vol. 2 of 2 While these things were doing in London, the Covenanters in Scotland had made up their mind that the mere discontinu ance of the Book of Canons, and Liturgy, and the abolition of the High Commission, would not satisfy them that they must have a General Assembly and a parliament to give the stamp of legal authority to their worship and discipline. They were determined to place no dependence upon the absolute will of a monarch who had shown that all his predilections were against them.2 Their appeal was from the king to the law. Some of them went farther, and already began to reduce to practice their own favourite notions of ecclesiastical govern 1nent.some presbyteries relieved their perpetual moderators of their duties some removed uncovenanted clergymen from their parishes some ordained ministers by the laying on of the hands of the presbytery apart from the bishop. The lower orders of the people went farther, and in several cases mobbed and maltreated unhappy divines who still clung to Episcopacy and refused to take the Covenant. In all these rabbles, singular enough, the women were conspicuous in some cases even ladies of rank were unable to restrain their zeal, which furnishes Clarendon with the taunt, that the Jews, as of old, stirred up the devout and honourable women. 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.