A decade of grievances,: presented and approved to the right honourable and High Court of Parliament, against the hierarchy or government of the Lord Bishops, and their dependant offices, by a multitude of people, who are sensible of the ruine of religion, the sinking of the state, and of the plots and insultations of enemies against both.
Leighton, Alexander, attributed name. 1568-1649,
II.
The hierarchicall government cannot consist in a nation with foundnesse of doctrine, sincerity of Gods worship, holinesse of life, the glorious power of Christs government, nor with the prosperity and safety of the commonwealth.
