prelacy

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Yet notwithstanding of all opposition, prelacy was again restored in parliament.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

See that objection of hearing prelatical men in the time of former prelacy, answered above, Period 4.

From A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Shields, Alexander

To this prelacy and intolerance would have been joined inevitably.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob

Marprelate, m�r-prel′āt, adj. pertaining to the series of vigorous pamphlets against prelacy issued in England in 1588-9, in spite of severe repression.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

The Quaker, therefore, soon participated in the persecutions which prelacy thought due to liberal christianity.

From Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania by Mayer, Brantz