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Primiti? & ultima: or, the early labours and last remains that will meet the public eye, in several practical discourses, eminently calculated for alarming sinners and Hypocrites in Zion, and Affording Instruction, Correction, and Consolation, to Genuine Believers, of the late Rev. and Learned Mr Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel at Ettrick,-Author of the Fourfold State, &c. &c. Now first published from his manuscripts. In three volumes. ...
Boston, Thomas, 1677-1732.Date: 1800-01- Books
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The new and complete book of martyrs, or, an universal history of martyrdom: being Fox's Book of martyrs, revised and corrected with Additions and great Improvements. Containing Not only a New, Copious, Complete, Universal and Authentic Account of the Lives, Actions, Characters, Trials, Religious Principles, Sufferings, Tortures, and Triumphant Deaths, of the English Protestant Martyrs, In the Reign of Queen Mary the First. But also a Genuine, Full, and Circumstantial History of all the many dreadful and cruel Persecutions against the Church of Christ, in all Parts of the World, by Papists, Pagans, Jews, Turks, and Others, From the very Earliest Ages of the Church, to the Present Period. Comprehending the Life, Meritorious Sufferings, and Martyrdom of our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, with the Martyrdoms of the Apostles, Evangelists, Disciples, and other Primitive Martyrs. - And including the Ten Great Persecutions, under the Roman Emperors, and many other Particulars under the following General Heads: An Ecclesiastical History of the Persecutions in Persia, under Sapores: and the Persecutions under the Arian Vandals. - The horried Persecutions under the Papacy; particularly the Martyrdoms of the Waldenses and Albigenses in France. - The Persecutions in Germany and Poland. - The Cruelties exercised in Bohemia and Lusatia. - The Martyrdoms in Italy. - The shocking Barbarities practised by the Inquisitions of Spain, Portugal, Goa, &c. and the Popish Persecutions of the Protestants during the Massacre of Paris. - A full Account of all the English Martyrdoms, particularly those in the Times of King Henry Viii. and Queen Mary I. wherein are amply displayed all the Butcheries, Tortures, and Cruelties exercised by the Roman Catholics against the Protestants, in the Reign of that tyrannical King and bloody Queen. - The Persecutions of the Quakers, &c. - Persecutions in the West of England by Judge Jeffreys. - Persecutions in Holland, Flanders, Scotland, &c. - The bloody Irish Massacre. - The great Spanish Invasion. - The dreadful Fire of London. - The shocking Gunpowder Plot. - The horrid Conspiracies in 1678. - The barbarous Murder of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey, and the Designs of Perkins, Friend, and Fenwick, for the Re-Establishment of Popery, and the Extirpation of Protestantism. - The Martyrdoms of the Missionaries in China. - The Persecutions in the East-Indies. - The Barbarities exercised in America. - The Cruelties practised on the Christians of Abyssinia and Georgia. - The late Persecutions in France against the Calas Family. - Also the final Establishment of the Reformed Religion in the various Protestant Countries. - With a great Number of other Cruelties exercised against the Christian Martyrs, not related in any other Work of the Kind. Together with the Martyrdoms of The Faithful and Virtuous in the first Ages of the World; the Persecutions of the Maccabees by the Greeks; of the Hebrews by the Egyptians; and of the Children of Israel by the Philistiries, and other barbarous Nations. Throughout this Work will be Interspersed Accounts of several singular Judgments against Persecutors, a great Variety of Original Anecdotes, the Letters which passed between the Martyrs, Letters from Bishop Bonner, and other Papists, to the Magistrates, &c. concerning the Methods of Indictment and Treatment, Translations of Popish Bulls, and other Deeds of Destruction, levelled against the Protellants, in England, Scotland, Ireland, &c. &c. suitable Notes and practical Reflections adapted to the various Subjects, and many curious Lives and Memoirs; to which will be added; an Account of the Life and Death of the original Author, the Rev. Mr. John Fox. The Whole Forming At Once A General Christian Martyrology, and Complete History of Persecutions. A Work Calculated to promote the Protestant Religion, and expel Romish Superstition, and by giving a pious and Christian Turn to the Mind, be general Use and Advantage to Mankind. The whole originally composed by the Rev. Mr. John Fox, M. A. formerly of Magdalen College, Oxford, And Prebendary in the Church of Balisbury; And now revised, corrected and improved, with many necessary additional Articles relating to the Acts and Monuments of the Church, not to be found in any other Publication of this Sort, and written in a clear intelligible Stile, free from that Obscurity of Language, and Tediousness of Diction, as well as that impertect Brevity and Coheiseness, which have been so much complained of in former Works of this kind. By Paul Wright, D. D. F. S. A. Vicar of Oakley and Rector of Snoreham in Essex. late of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge; and Author of the Complete British Family Bible, and of the New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, elegantly printed in Folio; both of which Works (with the inimitable Sets of fine Copper-Plates) have met with universal Approbation, as the best and most perfectly complete Works of the Kind, for the Use of all Christian Families. Embellished with a great variety of copper-plates, representing the various Modes of cruelly torturing the Christian Martyrs for their Constancy.
Foxe, John, 1516-1587.Date: [1800?]- Books
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Thoughts occasioned by the proposed application to Parliament for a repeal of the law of patronage. Addressed to all parties in the church; by a Welwisher of Church and State.
Welwisher of Church and state.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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Reasons of dissent from the resolution of the last General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, to apply to Parliament for augmentation of stipends, entered by the officer of state, &c. With a short introduction.
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: M,DCC,L. [1750]- Books
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An abstract of the proceedings of the General Assembly, of the Chruch [sic] of Scotland, from their first meeting on the 6th untill their last meeting, and adjournment on the 17th instan[t] May 1714. inclusive, at the desire of several Members of the General Assembly, and for the benefite [sic] of the meaner sort of people of congreations [sic], that are not able to purchase the said proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly at large, coppied [sic] out of The Edinburgh Gazette, of the 11th and 18th instant, new out of print, by allowance of the author. ...
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: 1714]- Books
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The representation of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, presented on the first day of June, 1703. to the Duke of Queensbery, Lord High Commissioner of Scotland; to prevent the passing of the act of toleration of the episcopal protestants in Scotland. ...
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: 1719- Books
Seeking nature's logic : natural philosophy in the Scottish enlightenment / David B. Wilson.
Wilson, David B., 1961-Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
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An address by a minister of the Church of Scotland to his congregation, on the morning of a fast, appointed on account of the late rebellion.
Minister of the Church of Scotland.Date: 1747- Books
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Act for securing the true Protestant religion, and Presbyterian government.
Scotland.Date: Anno Dom. 1702- Books
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Remonstrances by the elders and deacons of the session of Irvine, against the overture anent the negative as amended.
Church of Scotland, Presbytery of Irvine.Date: 1721?]- Books
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The act for securing the protestant religion and presbyterian church-government: with the statutary act. Which were retify'd by the touch of the royal scepter at Edinburgh, the 16th of January, 1707. By his grace James Duke of Queensbury, Her Majesty's high commissioner for that kingdom.
Scotland.Date: 1707]- Books
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The declaration, protestation and testimony of a poor wasted, desolate, misrepresented and reproached remnant, of the suffering anti-popish, anti-prelatick, anti-erastian, anti-sectarian, true Presbyterian Church of Christ in Scotland, united together in truth of duty. Published against the proclamation, accession and establishment of George D. of Hanover to be King in these lands, and all his abetters and supporters, in Aprile [sic] 1715.
Reformed Presbyterian Church.Date: 1715]- Books
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A seasonable warning by the Commission of the General Assembly, concerning the danger of popery.
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: 1713]- Books
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A seasonable warning by the Comission [sic] of the General Assembly, concerning the danger of popery.
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: 1713]- Books
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Draught of an overture to the Associate Synod, relative to some historical mistakes alleged to be in the Act, declaration, and testimony; answers, ... to Mr. Nairn's Reasons of dissent; ... Which draught was ordered, by the Synod, to be published, ...
Associate Synod (Scotland : 1744-1820)Date: 1755- Books
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Unto His Grace, Her Majesties High Commissioner And the Right Honourable The Estates of Parliament, The Humble address of the Presbytry of Hamilton.
Church of Scotland. Presbytery of Hamilton.Date: 1706]- Books
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Animadversions upon the conduct of the Rev. Dr. Rutherforth, in the controversy which has followed the publication of The confessional. With a word to the author of an "essay on establishments in religion, &c." By Anonymous.
Disney, John, 1746-1816.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Memorial and admonition of the Reverend Synod of Glasgow and Air, met at Glasgow, the first of October, 1745, to the people within the bounds of the said Synod.
Church of Scotland. Synod of Glasgow and Ayr.Date: printed in the year MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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A narrative of the debate in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, May 25. 1779. Occasioned by apprehensions of an intended repeal of the penal statutes against papists.
Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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A solemn acknowledgement of publick sins and breaches of the covenant; and a solemn engagement to all the duties contained therein; as it was solemnly done by both church and state in the pure times of reformation, anno, 1648. And now re-printed for the Use and Information of the present Generation.
Church of Scotland. General Assembly.Date: 1715?]- Books
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The Governor and Company of the Royal Bank of Scotland, (called the New Bank) and Andrew Cochran, merchant - - - - appellants. The Governor and Company of the Bank of Scotland, (called the Old Bank) - - - respondents. The respondents case.
Bank of Scotland.Date: 1729]- Books
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Proclamation appointing a solemn national thanksgiving.
Scotland. Sovereign (1702-1707: Anne)Date: 1706- Books
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His Majesty's advocate for Scotland, on behalf of His Majesty, - - - - - - - appellant. John Gordon, Esq; second son of Sir James Gordon, of Park, deceased, - - - - - respondent. The said John Gordon, Esq; - - - - - appellant. His Majesty's advocate, on behalf of His Majesty, - respondent. The case of the said John Gordon, Esq;
Gordon, John, of Avachy.Date: 1751]- Books
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An address of the Associate Synod, to the people under their charge, respecting the present differences on the subject of the preamble to the formula. Published by order of Synod.
Associate Synod (Scotland : 1744-1820)Date: [1799]- Books
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In the House of Lords. An Appeal from the Court of Session in Scotland. The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Common Council of the City of Glasgow, - Appellants. Messieurs Murdoch, Warroch, and Company, - - - - Respondents. The Appellants' case.
Glasgow (Scotland). Town Council.Date: 1783]