Memoirs of the Church of Scotland in Four Periods With An Appendix of
Memoirs of the Church of Scotland in Four Periods With An Appendix of
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
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This Commiffion was the higheft Exercife of Tyranny that was ever pradifed by any King in Great Britain fince Laws and Cqnflitntions were allowed to be the Rule of M 3 tie (a) Calderwood, /»/. 550. [ i66 ] the Government \ for it a&ually put the King in PofTefTion of the Bodies and Goods of all his Subjects, and empowered him to ufe them as he pleafed, without the ordinary Forms of Ju- fticc, and meerly by the Agency of the Clergy making the Bifhops the Inftruments of abfolute Power, not only t...o ruin and deftroy the Li- berties of the Church, but even of the whole Country, Clergy or Laity. The Copy of this famous CommifTion is among the Addenda, at the End of this Part, No. E. How they exercifed this unlimited Authori- ty, the Hiftories of thofe Times are WitnefTes, in which whoever pteafes to look, will find the Epifcopal Clergy were not backward to merit the general Reproach call upon Priefts of all Religions. There is fcarce any kind of Cruelty, Inju- ftice, and Opprcflion to be named in the World, which was not praclifed in the Confeqnence of this CommifTion, upon the Minifters of the Church } prefent Death, Racks, and Tortures excepted.
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