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Donne back from London, who brought letters with him that signify the meeting of the Parliament yesterday. Dr. Reynolds preached before the Commons before they sat. Crewe in the second, And told me how he did believe that the Cavaliers have now the upper hand clear of the Presbyterians. 27th.
Had it not been for the conjunction of the forces of the Scottish Presbyterians and the English Puritans during the reign of Charles the First, the designs of that monarch against the Protestantism of both kingdoms could not probably have been checked.
He heartily concurred in the Restoration, and was sincerely desirous to bring about an union between Episcopalians and Presbyterians.
Methodists sang, and Baptists immersed, and Presbyterians sprinkled, and Episcopalians read their prayers, while the ministers of the various sects preached that Christ died for all; yet there were some twenty-five or thirty of us poor creatures confined in the 'Negro Pen, awaiting the close of the holy Sabbath, and the dawn of another day, to be again taken into the market, there to be examined like so many beasts of burden.
He lifted his hat to the bright parasols of his parishioners passing in glistening motors, bowed to episcopalians, nodded amiably to presbyterians, and even acknowledged with his lifted hat the passing of persons of graver forms of error.
It was voted that, in the reduced army, no one should have, except Fairfax, a higher rank than colonel, a measure aimed directly at Cromwell, now both feared and distrusted by the Presbyterians. But the army refused to be disbanded without payment of its arrears, and, moreover, marched upon London, in spite of the vote of the parliament that it should not come within twenty-five miles.
If a man hates Presbyterians, and you ask him what Presbyterians believe, he will tell you that they believe that there are infants in hell a span long. It is strange also how individual churches will sometimes make misstatements about other individual churches. It is especially so in regard to falsehoods told with reference to prosperous enterprises.
"I'll say so," was his laconic reply. "Belong to some church back home?" I asked him. "Folks do; Presbyterians," he replied. "Like the old hymns?" I asked. "Yes, it seems like home to sing 'em." I didn't get to talk with him for a few minutes, for he had to stop another truck. Then he came back.
Our people in this colony are some strict Congregational men, others more large Congregational men, and some moderate Presbyterians, and take the Congregational men of both sorts, they are the greatest part of the people in the colony. "There are 4 or 5 Seven-day men, in our Colony, and about so many Quakers. "17 Answ.
So, on the opposite western cape of the Chesapeake, shivered the Roman priests of Calvert's foundation, in the waste of old St. Mary's; the folds had left the shepherds, and fifty people only came to worship in the kirk of the earliest Presbyterians.
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