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A History of the Churches in England and Scotland,; From the Reformation to This Present Time
A History of the Churches in England and Scotland From the Reformation to This Present Time Author:James Murray General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1771 Original Publisher: Printed by T. Saint for the author Subjects: Great Britain England Scotland Computers / Programming Languages / General Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christian Church / History Notes: Thi... more »s is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: As-thre were but few emoluments ar this time to be obtained by reforming Ireland, the Englifli Epifcopftlians were not food of undertaking the con- / ferfion of a nation where they had much to fear, and but fmall profpeft of any great worldly ad- Tantage: his work was left to the Englifli Puritans, and the Scotch Presbyterians. Some Londoners who had engaged to plant colonies in the province of Ulfter, prevailed upon fome Puritans to remove thither; who being perfecuted in their own country, might enjoy liberty of confcience in Ireland. Thefe people being harrafled at home, Were glad to go to any part of the King's dominions where they might live in peace, and enjoy the privilege of ferving God according to the dictates of their own minds. Multitudes would have gone had they been affured of a toleration after they were fettled; but they were afraid of the influence of the court, ad the tyranny of the Bifliops. The chief fupply of thefe colonies was from Scotland : many went over from that Kingdom; fuch as Bryce, Cunningham, Blair, Livingttone, Hamilton, Welch, Dunbar,« less