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... clergy of Aberdeen . - Military move- ments . - The king's movements - secures Berwick . - King and the army encamp at Birks . - Rebels advance to Dunse - Law - operations of the army . - Hamil- ton's inactivity . - Covenanters petition ...
... clergy of Aberdeen . - Military move- ments . - The king's movements - secures Berwick . - King and the army encamp at Birks . - Rebels advance to Dunse - Law - operations of the army . - Hamil- ton's inactivity . - Covenanters petition ...
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... clergy , who have suffered for their duty to God and obedience to our commands . And we do hereby assure you , that it shall be one of our chiefest studies how to rectify and establish the government of that church aright , and to re ...
... clergy , who have suffered for their duty to God and obedience to our commands . And we do hereby assure you , that it shall be one of our chiefest studies how to rectify and establish the government of that church aright , and to re ...
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... clergy of his whole dominions , for remedying the present schism and division , unto whose judgment and de- termination we promise to submit ourselves and all our pro- ceedings . " Given under our hands at Morpeth , Berwick , and Holy ...
... clergy of his whole dominions , for remedying the present schism and division , unto whose judgment and de- termination we promise to submit ourselves and all our pro- ceedings . " Given under our hands at Morpeth , Berwick , and Holy ...
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... clergy to perform those secular offices which had been thrust upon them by the crown . Yet there appears to have been a most marvellous elasticity in presby- tery ; for he thrust himself forward into the camp , and , in the midst of ...
... clergy to perform those secular offices which had been thrust upon them by the crown . Yet there appears to have been a most marvellous elasticity in presby- tery ; for he thrust himself forward into the camp , and , in the midst of ...
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... clergy as should submit to their government , " recom- mending to the synods all those who are deposed before them for subscribing the [ bishop's ] declinature , for reading of the service - book , and for any other gross cause : that ...
... clergy as should submit to their government , " recom- mending to the synods all those who are deposed before them for subscribing the [ bishop's ] declinature , for reading of the service - book , and for any other gross cause : that ...
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Page 124 - Solemn League and Covenant, wherein we all subscribe, and each one of us for himself, with our hands lifted up to the most HIGH GOD, do swear, " I.—That we shall sincerely, really, and constantly, through the grace of GOD, endeavour, in our several places and callings, the preservation of the reformed religion in the church of Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies...
Page 262 - GOD from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass : yet so, as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
Page 263 - The rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the glory of his sovereign power over his creatures, to pass by and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of his glorious justice.
Page 299 - The complexion of the skin of it was dark and discoloured. The forehead and temples had lost little or nothing of their muscular substance ; the cartilage of the nose was gone ; but the left eye, in the first moment of exposure, was open and full, though it vanished almost immediately ; and the pointed beard, so characteristic of the period of the reign of King Charles, was perfect.
Page 298 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Page 158 - They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
Page 198 - And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord God ; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.
Page 131 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...
Page 125 - Kingdoms, denied in former times to our progenitors, is by the good Providence of God granted unto us, and hath been lately concluded and settled by both Parliaments, we shall, each one of us, according to our places and interest, endeavour that they may remain conjoined in a firm Peace and Union to all posterity, and that justice may be done upon the wilful opposers thereof in manner expressed in the precedent Article.
Page 238 - And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.