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The Prelatists and Presbyterians of the more violent kind became as illiberal as the Papists, and would scarcely allow the possibility of salvation beyond the pale of their respective churches.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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Papists, Prelatists and Turks, are cursed up hill and down dale, by these worthy survivors of the Auld Leaven.
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For, O ye powers of logic! when the Prelatists and Presbyterians of old times went together by the ears in this unlucky country, my ancestor (venerated be his memory!) was one of the people called Quakers, and suffered severe handling from either side, even to the extenuation of his purse and the incarceration of his person.
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Some are for one way, and some for another; some say one sort are the people of God, some another; some say the Prelatists are so, some the
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Fifth-monarchy Men, and Anabaptists, and against the Prelatists and
Life of Dr Owen 1965
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It appeared that the Prelatists had been looking to ends of state policy, while the Puritans kept religion in view.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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Wherefore I, Win-Grace Porringer, testify against the people of this land; against Prelatists and Papists, Presbyterians and Independents, Baptists, Quakers and heathen; against princes, governors, and men in high places; against them that call themselves planters and trample the vineyard of the Lord; against their sons and their daughters who are haughty, and walk with stretched-forth neck and wanton eyes, walking and mincing and making a tinkling with their feet.
Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903
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I do not place you, who have some inkling of the truth, nor the Independents and Fifth Monarchy men (as for the Quakers they shall be utterly damned) in the furnace seven times heated which is reserved for the bigoted and bloody Prelatists who rule the land, swearing strange oaths, foining with the sword, and delighting in vain apparel; keeping their feast days and their new moons and their solemn festivals.
Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903
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Cameronians were about to take arms for the restoration of the house of Stuart, whom they regarded, with justice, as their oppressors; and the intrigues of the period presented the strange picture of Papists, Prelatists, and Presbyterians, caballing among themselves against the English government, out of a common feeling that their country had been treated with injustice.
The Black Dwarf 1898
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These arrangements had to be carried out with the most extreme caution, for there were many Prelatists in the village, and in the present disturbed state of the public mind any activity on the part of so well known a man would have at once attracted attention.
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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