 | Hugh Miller - Presbyterianism - 1863 - 522 pages
...indeed amazed," he states, "to see a poor community so capable of arguing on points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matters of religion. Upon all these topies they had texts of Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything which was... | |
 | Hugh Miller - Church and state - 1869 - 578 pages
...indeed amazed," he states, "to see a poor community so capable of arguing on points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything which was said to them. And this measure of knowledge was spread among the very meanest of... | |
 | Hugh Miller - England - 1873 - 396 pages
...to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the hounds to be net to the power of princes in matters of religion. Upon...Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even among the meanest of them... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - Scotland - 1875 - 602 pages
...crowds. We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even among the meanest of them,... | |
 | Scotland free church, comm. on the records of disruption ministers - 1876 - 234 pages
...his friends to find in Scotland " a poor commonalty capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matters of religion." It has astonished many a reader to find Andrew Melville, in the previous century, at the Scottish Court,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1878 - 734 pages
...said, ' We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue on points of government and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...Scripture at hand and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even among the meanest of them,... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1878 - 672 pages
...said, ' We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue on points of government and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...Scripture at hand and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was spread even among the meanest of them,... | |
 | 1880 - 966 pages
...texts of Scripture to answer triumphantly all that could be said to them on " points of governmer, and on " the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matters of religion." The Epistle to the Christian Reader concludes with u stirring address to the noble patriots — the... | |
 | William Milroy - Lord's Supper - 1882 - 246 pages
...Prelacy. — "We were amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in...of religion. Upon all these topics they had texts at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge... | |
 | Scotland - 1882 - 822 pages
...government, and on the lx>unds to be set to the powers of princes in matters of religion ; upon nil these topics they had texts of Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them." Again the "Directory "says:— "Ordinarily the subject of the minister's... | |
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We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable to argue upon points of government, and on the bounds to be set to the power of princes in matters of religion ; upon all these topics they had texts of Scripture at hand ; and were ready with... 
