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PRELATE. The name of an ecclesiastical officer. There are two orders of prelates; the first is composed of bishops, and the second, of abbots, generals of orders, deans, &c. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Pledging allegiance to "king and parliament freely chosen by the kingdom," they solicited civic protection for their own conscientious practice of religion, pleading freedom from all "oppression and molestation, which long we have formerly groaned under by the tyranny and oppression of the Prelatical Hierarchy," though not under "this present King and Parliament" here called "wonderfully honourable" and an instrument in God's hand. [76] In the case of Simon Fish, Foxe claims that "the light of the gospel, working mightily in Germany" inspired the London lawyer to compose A Supplication for the Beggars (Antwerp, 1529), an influential attack on the doctrine of purgatory as a tool for prelatical aggrandizement through the sale of indulgences. In the case of the Aromatic Jew, the Jew only figures in this struggle when he converts to Christianity, in this case Eastern Christianity, perhaps untainted by the prelatical defilement of the Catholic Church under the Roman popes. |
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