Bishops
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in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Church leaders who, with ecclesiastical lawyers, effectively exercised the judicial authority of the Court of High Commission.
The same thing may be said of the Court of High Commission, which dealt with ecclesiastical offences and in which the judicial authority was practically exercised by the Bishops and the lawyers of the Ecclesiastical Courts, as the laymen named in the commission seldom or never attended to their duties.
The removal from the House of all the Episcopalian members, who were now Edition:
The second object was to be gained by the establishment of religious liberty, by depriving the Bishops of coercive jurisdiction, and by repealing all Acts imposing penalties upon attending or not attending on any special form of worship, or upon refusing to take the Covenant (§§ XI-XIII).
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The bench of Anglican bishops sitting in the House of Lords, targets of popular hostility during the Reform crisis and later invoked as sources of clerical authority.
The creation of the Ecclesiastical Commission and all the reforms it involved were made possible because in this matter the Whig Ministry of 1836 was supported by the Bishops and by the Conservative Opposition.
At the moment when the vast majority of the electors demanded parliamentary reform with passionate enthusiasm, no class was the object of more odium than the bench of Bishops.
Exalt our Holy Fathers, the Bishops, as the Representatives of the Apostles, and the Angels of the Churches;
Letters
Church leaders who live communally, cited by the tempting thought as contrast to solitary life.
Or do you not know that the bishops appointed by God over the churches of God live in their accustomed manner together with men, and continually celebrate the spiritual assemblies, in which above all there comes profit to those present?
Stromata
Church officials who must have proven themselves by presiding well over household and congregation.
For He says that bishops must be appointed who have practised presiding over their own household and over the whole Church.
The Rights of War and Peace
The bishops of the early church, whose recorded stances and interventions bear on the question of capital punishment.
From that time too the military oath was changed to the form, which is found in Vegetius, and the soldier swore, “By God, and Christ, and the holy spirit, and the majesty of the Emperor, to whom as next to God, homage and reverence are due from mankind” Nor out of so many Bishops at that time, many of whom suffered the most cruel treatment for their religion, do we read of a single one, who dissua …
Nor is the argument invalidated by a fact pretty generally known, that Bishops and other Christians often interceded in behalf of criminals, to mitigate the punishment of death, and that any, who had taken refuge in churches, were not given up, but upon the promise of their lives being spared.
De Pudicitia
The episcopal college, denied final authority to forgive grave sin.
And therefore the Church indeed will forgive offences, but the Church of the Spirit, through a spiritual man, not the Church which is a number of bishops.
Magna Carta: A Commentary on the Great Charter of King John
The bishops of England, a group whose allegiance to the young king's cause is discussed as a consequence of papal sanction.
apart from the bishops, only four submissions were made to Henry in three months.
It had the immediate effect of bringing over eleven bishops to the young King’s side.