Ecclesiastical power and law in tension with secular authority
The passage laments magistrates prioritizing church malice and encroachments while opposing compulsory systems. It argues ecclesiastical pretensions are upheld by judges and warns that the church and throne will not endure together. removing constraining influence could allow the oak to thrive after the ivy falls.
Law church opposes persecution and church control in England
A critical survey accuses a traveling Protestant group of stoking anti Catholic sentiment at public meetings. It condemns church rates seizures at Walditch and laments state church dominance, urging dissenters to demand equal rights and laws amid political repair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Law-Church
Protestant Operative Association
George Inn
Aldermanbury
Lester
Church of Rome
Church of England
George Francies
Baptist Chapel
Waterloo Road
Lambeth
Baptist Magazine
Henry
Ridgley
Alexander
Walditch
Bridport
Sun
Charles ‘Looks
Joseph Stone
James Williams
Secseeeuse
Peter Kenway
Samuel Bennnett
William Kenway
J.P. Stephens
Messrs. Warburton
Mitchell
Feyr
Law
House of Lords
House of Commons
Paddy
Ireland
England
Ecclesiastical Canons Censuring Schism and Improper Conformity
The Bradford Observer reports on church canons condemning impugners of consecration forms, authors of schism, maintainers of nonconforming sects, conventicle supporters, and independent constitutions, excommunicating those who reject Church of England worship and governance.
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Church OF England
Wesleyan Methodist Conference