Prelacy

Are you not the son of Peveril of the Peak, with whose name Prelacy and Popery are so closely allied, that no old woman of either sex in Derbyshire concludes her prayer without a petition to be freed from all three?

Peveril of the Peak 1822

Prelacy, the sister of Popery, had made fast her throne, and elevated the horns of her mitre.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

“Oh that there were not many who study to build again what they did formerly unwarrantably destroy: I mean Prelacy and the Service Book, a mystery of iniquity that works amongst us, whose steps lead unto the house of the great Whore, Babylon, the mother of fornication,” and so forth.

Old Mortality 2004

Didna ye hear him say, that Erastianism was as bad as Prelacy, and that the Indulgence was as bad as

Old Mortality 2004

The Pope and Prelacy, where they came, where they came,

You Jacobites By Name 1994

Hence he supposes his main interest to lie in holding fast Prelacy; whatever he seems to part withal, that he will not let go, -- that is his main interest.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Prelacy, as the Scots in Ulster; -- others, that counted themselves under no less sacred bond for the maintenance of prelates, service-books, and the like, as the whole party of Ormond's adherents;

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

If Rezin and the son of Remaliah, Syria and Ephraim, old adversaries, combine together for a new enmity against Judah, -- if covenant and Prelacy, Popery and treachery, blood and (as to that) innocency, join hand in hand to stand in the way of the promise, -- yet I will not in this join with them, says the Lord.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

While in England the Independents, and Nonconformists generally, were passing from one degree of persecution to another, at the hands of the restored adherents of Prelacy; the Independents of New England were perpetrating even greater severities against the

Life of Dr Owen 1965

Prelacy, that he declaimed against it, and became (if possible) more enemy both to him and the Church, than he was before.

Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various