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… instrument employed by the court in the work of forcing episcopacy on his reluctant countrymen; nor did he in that …
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… the Regular Priests writ divers printed Treatises against Episcopacy, and the inconveniency of having a Bishop in …
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… that they would have the Articles of Perth abolished; Episcopacy limited, so that it should be little more than a … that Bishops should have no Vote in the Assembly, and that Episcopacy should be abolished, and the Articles of Perth … of in an Assembly and Parliament. And although We conceive Episcopacy to be a Church-Government most agreeable with …
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… will become of the third estate there in Parliament, if Episcopacy should be abrogated ? And further we think fit to …
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… Covenant do hold the principal thing in Question, to wit, Episcopacy, to be abjur'd, as many of you do? Or any of you … of Faith, made Anno 1580. as abjuring and removing Episcopacy. An Act declaring the Five Articles to have bin … Explanation of the Confession of Faith, the Act against Episcopacy, the Act against the Five Articles, the Act …
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… and Kingdom, proceeded from the Prelates, consented that Episcopacy be removed out of the Kirk of Scotland, and … representing your Royal Power and Person, hath removed Episcopacy out of the Kirk of Scotland, and declared all … the Act of the Assembly the 17th of August last, whereby Episcopacy and the Civil Places and Power of Kirkmen, and …
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… are contented, for our Peoples full Satisfaction, to remit Episcopacy and the Estate of Bishops to the freedom of the … the last Assembly. But in giving way to the abolishing of Episcopacy, be careful that it be done without the appearing … so, as the conclusion seem not to be made in prejudice of Episcopacy as unlawful, but only in satisfaction to the …
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… in Answer to the Bishop of Exeter's Letter concerning Episcopacy. 'The rest of your Lordship's Letter is fitter to … the Cause therein. Next, you say, in the first Head, That Episcopacy is an antient, holy, and divine Institution. It … as that it is of divine Institution? There you define Episcopacy by being joined with Imparity and Superiority of …
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… the Change of Church-Government from the Ancient Order of Episcopacy, several Papers pass'd between his Majesty and the …
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… to have a threefold Law; the first is Jus divinum, Episcopacy by Divine Right, and this he would have you think … entred their Plea, and pretended Title to this Crown, Episcopacy by Divine Right. The second is Jus humanum, …