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644 History of the Irish Presbyterians .
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the government , that in the 10 th of Charles I . an Act was passed in the Irish Parliament for the naturalization of all those of the Scottish nation who were born before King James ' s accession to the crown of England and Ireland : the object of ivbich was— -to improve the condition of some Scots
Who had come , ove ^ befpre ^ / and who were liable to vpfions inconveniences for want > f being naturalized , and to encourage ^ more of the Scots to cojpe over and settle in the country . In that Act , thefr great usefulpess Ia impraving the slate erf the . king ^ Mn is set
forth , in thesV renia 3 ||^ J ) l ^ e words— " Jt tifeiiig a great di ^ couirfi ^ einent ^ iud disheartening unto many of yojir said stttjjMts of Scotland , " Itliat [ otherwise sttljjfects of Scotland , that otherwise
wbttld have planted themseWs here , for the farther civu&ijag , strengthening arvd souring tins yo # r Highness e s said realiji * ^ against , X € Jiels jat home , . I ^ m ng the , . f ^ gi of Charles I ., very cbnsiSeralile ericpuragemeiit tyas
givpn to the Pap ^ fe b ?! ih i ^ England and Irelaad , ; b y ^ g j ^ ing an d ma Court ^ ilptwithstanding" pie strp ^ g renaon-% trances of Parliament ; and they were , in many instances , promoted to situations of trust and power . " They had /^ says Lord Clarendon , " for many
years , enjoyed a great c ^ lra , being on the matter absolved from the severest parts of the law , and dispensed with for the gentlest . " In fact , the hierarchy discovered a manifest tendency to Popery ; and the faith and worship of
the national church did , not differ widely from those of the Church of Rome . * (^ This union subsisted among the Northern Protestants till the year J 633 , when Wentworth , Earl of Strafford , by the agency of Laud , was made Lord Deputy of Ireland . He behaved
* Neal ' s Hist . Pur . Vol . II . pp . 146 , 209 , 246 . Hume ' s Hist . Eng , Vol . VI . p . 225 . ** If we would but open our eyes , we should see that we are beholden to the Dissenters for the continuance of a great
part of our theological principles ; for if the High Churchmen had no checks , they would have brought in Popery before this time , by their overvaluing pomp and ceremony in divine worship . So that if there hat ! been no Dissenters , the Church of England had been long since ruined , "Dr . Mtlwvrd ' s Preacher , Vol , II . p , 133 ,
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toward ^ the I * r € sbyterians in the . mo&t tyrarin ) ical / aiid unjustifiable manlier ; pursuing a course similar to that of his patron in England . He caused Echlin , Bishop Of Down and Connor , wiio had formerly joined in ordaining many of the Presbyterian ministers ,
and lived in habits of intimacy with them , to depose four * of them for not conforming to the ceremonies of the Episcopal Church , though there was not at that time a single canon to authorize such violent proceedings . ] ,
In 1633 , Laud determined that the TThirty-nine Articles should be adopted by the Church of Ireland : aiid , accordingly t a canon was passed in Convocation , with but one dissenting v ^ oice , approving of the Articles of the Church of England , and denouncing excommunication against all those who
should affirm that they contain any tiling superstitious or erroneous /^ [ The spirit of persecutipn being once raised was not easily laid . The ministers were driven from their flocks ,
denounced as outlaws , obliged to skulk in privacy through the province . Even the schoolmasters who were suspected of being Presbyterians , were required to subscribe , though there was then no warrant for it in the canons : and
while the conscientious Protestants were thus persecuted , the Papists were connived at in their masses , nunneries and schools , and suffered little or no molestation . In the diocese of
Down and Connor , Leslie , made bishop in October 1635 , on the 12 th of August following " , deposed five more Presbyterian ministers , J
ex-* [ These were , Blair , minister of Bangor , Livingston , of KLiliuchy , Dunbar , of Larne , and \ Velsh , of Tempiepatrick . They were shortly after restored , but it was only for half a year , when Wentworth again relapsed into his former
severities , and they were once more deposed . The three former Hed to Scotland for a time ; but Welah , who was grandson to Knox , the Scottish Reformer , died shortly after , in 1634 . ] f Neal ' s Hist , Pur . Vol . II . p . 219 .
t [ These were , Brice , of Broad Island , the first Presbyterian minister that came to Ireland ; Ridge ,, of Antrim ; Col vert , of Oldstone ; Cunningham , of Holly ^ wood ; and Hamilton , of Ballywalter , nephew to Lord Clandcboy . The former died in his charge in 1636—the others iled to Scotland . ]
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1824, page 644, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2530/page/4/
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