 | David Hume - 1859 - 232 pages
...for their spiritual offences. The ecclesiastics in that age had renounced all immediate subordination to the magistrate : they openly pretended to an exemption...were gradually introducing a like exemption in civil canses : spiritual penalties alone could be inflicted on their offences : and as the clergy had extremely... | |
 | Johann Lorenz Mosheim - 1871 - 496 pages
...Cistercians ; and they in(27) [" The ecclesiastics of that age had renounced all immediate subordination to the magistrate : they openly pretended to an exemption...accusations from a trial before courts of justice ; and wero gradually introducing a like exemption in civil causes. Spiritual "penalties alone could be inflicted,... | |
 | James Davies (of Southport.) - 1874 - 294 pages
...control. According to Hume, "The ecclesiastics in that age had renounced all immediate subordination to the magistrate ; they openly pretended to an exemption...gradually introducing a like exemption in civil causes," (while, also, actually endeavouring to introduce into their courts civil causes). "Spiritual penalties... | |
 | Joseph Fernandez - 1874 - 282 pages
...learn from Fitzstephen that " the ecclesiastics of that age had renounced all immediate subordination to the magistrate ; they openly pretended to an exemption...accusations from a trial before courts of justice ; spiritual penalties alone could be inflicted on their offences ; and as the clergy had multiplied... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1840 - 336 pages
...lowest order were enormous. They renounced all immediate subordination to the civil magistrate, and openly pretended to an exemption in criminal accusations, from a trial before courts of justice. Spiritual penalties alone could be inflicted on their offences. When, therefore, the clergy were greatly... | |
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The ecclesiastics in that age had renounced all immediate subordination to the magistrate: they openly pretended to an exemption in criminal accusations from a trial before courts of justice ; and were gradually introducing a like exemption in civil causes... 
