 | 1883 - 496 pages
...them, even their cottagers and their servants, could argue on points of government and the power ot princes in matters of religion. Upon all these topics...Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything which was said to them. This was in 1670. It was not the parish schools, therefore, which... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1883 - 662 pages
...all these topics they had texts of Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything that was said to them. This measure of knowledge was...among the meanest of them, their cottagers, and their servants.'8 The turbulence of the time, however, and the rapid fluctuations of politics prevented some... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1884 - 538 pages
...We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonalty so capable of arguing 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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1884 - 862 pages
...very meanest of them, even their cottagers and their servants, could argue on points of government and the power of princes in matters of religion. Upon...Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything which was said to them. This was in 1670. It was not the parish schools, therefore, which... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Church history - 1884 - 910 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,... | |
 | Theology - 1886 - 592 pages
...cottagers and their servants, could argue on the points of government and the power of princes in the matters of religion. Upon all these topics they had...Scripture at hand, and were ready with their answers to anything which was said to them." Truly, individual study of God's word, resulting in an intellectual... | |
 | James Taylor - Covenanters - 1887 - 224 pages
...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,... | |
 | John Ker - Canada - 1887 - 284 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,... | |
 | 1888 - 950 pages
...We were indeed amazed to see a poor commonality so capable of arguing 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,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1897 - 666 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...knowledge, much conceited of themselves, and were mously' on Aug. 13. ' I can, I dare the worke. I heard but one "No" say, [remove] any scruple against... | |
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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... 
