 | William Cathcart - 2001 - 502 pages
...end ;" but it was passed without this insolent restriction. The full title of this celebrated act is, "An Act for Exempting their Majesties' Protestant...Church of England, from the Penalties of Certain Laws." It has eighteen clauses. By this law, when certain conditions were complied with, Dissenters were freed... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pages
...had an eye first and foremost to practical politics, and did not grant full toleration. Officially an 'Act for Exempting their Majesties' Protestant...Church of England, from the Penalties of Certain Laws', it stated that Trinitarian Protestant Nonconformists who swore the oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance... | |
 | Mark A. Noll - 2002 - 356 pages
...pp. 19-43. part of the settlement of William and Mary as British monarchs in 1689, Parliament passed "An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant subjects,...Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws." This Act guaranteed freedom of worship to Trinitarian Protestant Nonconformists, even as it reaffirmed... | |
 | Nicholas Tyacke - 2001 - 372 pages
...its significance. For example, play has been made on the fact that the Act was officially entitled 'for exempting Their Majesties' Protestant subjects,...Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws'. Nowhere is the word 'toleration' mentioned.'05 Yet examination of the journals of the Lords and Commons... | |
 | Barry H. Howson - 2001 - 402 pages
...The Baptist Quarterly, 25 (1973,74), pp. 77-78. toleration through Parliament, entitled, An Act of 'exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects Dissenting...Church of England, from the Penalties of certain laws. 151 Times had not only changed politically for the Particular Baptists but they had also changed theologically.... | |
 | Philip Benedict - 2008 - 696 pages
...most established churchmen believed to threaten the purity and uniformity of Anglican worship. The "Act for exempting their Majesties protestant subjects,...Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws," approved by Parliament in May 1689, would be the last major component of the legislaDissenting Congregations... | |
 | Marsha Keith Schuchard - 2002 - 872 pages
...William implemented policies that greatly worsened their condition. His Toleration Act of 1689 exempted "Their Majesties' Protestant subjects, dissenting...Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws," but the Jews were not exempted."7 Even worse, the seventeenth clause of the Act expressly excluded... | |
 | Andrew R. Murphy - 2009 - 364 pages
...Toleration Act. lt omits the words "toleration" and "indulgence" altogether. lnstead, Parliament passed "An Act for Exempting Their Majesties' Protestant...the Church of England From the Penalties of Certain Laws."155 The Act's preamble mentions none of the elaborately articulated theological, philosophical,... | |
 | Harold Joseph Berman - 2009 - 548 pages
...(1689). 7o. 1 William & Mary, c. 18 (1689). The formal title of the Toleration Act was "An Act to Exempt their Majesties' Protestant Subjects Dissenting from...Church of England from the Penalties of Certain Laws." 71. FW Maitland, The Constitutional History of England: A Course of Lectures, ed. HAL Fisher (Cambridge,... | |
 | Gerald Lewis Bray - 2004 - 682 pages
...Protestantism was also recognized, and the exclusivist claims of High Church Anglicans were rejected. An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects...Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws 01. Forasmuch as some ease to scrupulous consciences in the exercise of religion may be an effectual... | |
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