 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1809 - 768 pàgines
...for adjourning the court of session during the Christmas holydays ; ' as also the penal sta« tutes against Witches have been repealed by ' parliament, contrary to the express law of ' God*.' — The Seceders comprehend a very large body of the populace in Scotland." A peculiar hardship upon... | |
 | Hugo Arnot - 1812 - 464 pàgines
...religion in Scotland, the act for adjourning the Court of Session during the Christmas holidays; ' as also the penal statutes against ' witches have been repealed...Parliament, contrary * to the express law of God.'* The Seceders comprehend a very large body of the populace in Scotland. Their zeal for the renewal of... | |
 | Hugo Arnot - 1812 - 468 pàgines
...adjourning the Court of Session during the Christmas holidays; * as also the penal statutes against 1 witches have been repealed by Parliament, contrary ' to the express law of God.'* The Seceders comprehend a very large body of the populace in Scotland. Their zeal for the renewal of... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1816 - 754 pàgines
...the court of session during the Christmas holydays ; ' as also the penal sta"' lutes against Wnches have been repealed by ' parliament, contrary to the express law of ' God*.' — The Seceders comprehend a very large body of ihe populace in Scotland." A peculiar hardship upon... | |
 | 1840 - 448 pàgines
...Religion in Scotland; the Act for adjourning the Court of Session during the Christmas Holydays ; as also, the penal statutes against Witches have been repealed...by Parliament, contrary to the express law of God." considering, moreover, that Locke, Reid, Stewart, and Brown, had not then analyzed the human mind,... | |
 | 1877 - 236 pàgines
...religion in Scotland, the Act for adjourning the Court of Session during the Christmas holidays ; as also the penal statutes against Witches have been repealed...by parliament, contrary to the express law of God. — (Exod. xxii. 1 8.) The seceders comprehend a very large body of the populace in Scotland." APPENDIX... | |
 | Sir John Henry Lefroy - 1879 - 810 pàgines
...annually confessed by one body of Seceders from the Kirk of Scotland, at least so late as 1785, was ' that the penal statutes against witches have been...repealed by Parliament contrary to the express law of God (Exod. xxii. 18).' No one who has not read the details of witch trials can have any idea of the revolting... | |
 | 1895 - 424 pàgines
...declared their belief in witchcraft, and in 1785 a body of eeceders from the Scotch kirk confessed "that the penal statutes against witches have been...by Parliament contrary to the express law of God. (Exod. xxii- 18.)" 1 Maximillian Boush was in Virginia in 1699. "These are to desire yo1 mr Maximillian... | |
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... which to this day they read from the pulpit. Among the sins national and personal there confessed, are the act of Queen Anne's Parliament for tolerating the Episcopal religion in Scotland, the act for adjourning the Court of Session during the Christmas... 