Many of the Scots who immigrated there were either Roman Catholics or Presbyterians, which can be seen in a number of island landmarks and place names.

In the early years of Fair Grove, the citizens of the place, and community — mostly Methodists and Presbyterians met to worship under a brush arbor about where a small house of worship was built and afterward a spacious arbor supported by numerous posts and covered with clapboards, served a few years.

This colony – the National Colony – was to be a village of temperance with a capital “ T ”, a place where evangelical Methodists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists and Baptists could live free of the sins of alcohol.

Albert Barnes held a prominent place in the New School branch of the Presbyterians during the Old School-New School Controversy, to which he adhered on the division of the denomination in 1837 ; he had been tried ( but not convicted ) for heresy in 1836, mostly due to the views he expressed in Notes on Romans ( 1835 ) of the imputation of the sin of Adam, original sin and the atonement ; the bitterness stirred up by this trial contributed towards widening the breach between the conservative and the progressive elements in the church.

In the debate between the two main parties present at the Assembly, the Presbyterians and the Independents, the Presbyterians were in favor of a form of church government that maintained the visible organizational unity of the Catholic Church while Independents, weary of the ecclesiastical tyranny they experienced under the Episcopal system, wished to organize the churches in a congregational way envisioning no legitimate authority of the church above the local congregation meeting at one time in a single place.

The period in which these events took place was later given the name " The Killing Time " because hundreds, if not thousands of Presbyterians were persecuted and martyred for holding Cameronian views.

The hall was during the 1700s the meeting place of Presbyterians and in 1719 the site of the " Salters ' Hall controversy " a notable turning point in religious tolerance in England.

After the execution of Charles I, Scottish Presbyterians and English Anglicans and Congregationalists, despite sharing a common theology, were divided over the place of the Monarchy – the former supported it while the latter were opposed to it.

Most of the early Scotch Irish were Presbyterians, and their first place of worship in what would become the Denver area was John Beatty's house, which was located about one mile west of Beatty's Ford, near the present-day Triangle community.

The 17th century Presbyterians were against burials taking place within churches.

While a new chapel was being built, under the guise of a warehouse, by a wealthy merchant, named Pippard, the Catholics met stealthily for worship in the house of a Mr. and Mrs. Green in Dale Street, and the only friends of the proscribed ones were two large-hearted and tolerant Presbyterians who lived in adjoining houses, and who helped the Papists to gain, without observation, access to their temporary place of meeting.

The need to dissolve that failed attempt at interdenominationalism, which had already taken place among the Presbyterians, prompted the first national gathering of Congregationalists since the 1648 synod that produced the Cambridge Platform, a confession of faith similar to the Presbyterians ' Westminster Confession, at Boston in 1865.

Scott put Jeanie Deans in the place of Walker, a young woman from a family of highly devout Presbyterians.

The Whig tendency supported the great aristocratic families, the Protestant Hanoverian succession, and toleration for nonconformist Protestants ( the " dissenters ," such as Presbyterians ), while some Tories supported the exiled Stuart royal family's claim to the throne ( Jacobitism ), and virtually all Tories supported the established Church of England and the gentry.

* 1759-Native American Samson Occom, direct descendant of the great Mahican chief Uncas, is ordained by the Presbyterians.

Only Anglicans were permitted to become members of the Parliament of Ireland, though the great majority of the Irish population were Roman Catholic, with many Presbyterians in Ulster.

* Unum Necessarium ( 1655 ), on the doctrine of repentance, perceived Pelagianism gave great offence to Presbyterians.

The great influx of Scots Presbyterians into the Carolinas introduced the African slaves to Christianity and their way of worship and singing.

At the conclusion of the First English Civil War, Peters, though greatly disliked by the Presbyterians and the Scots, had attained great influence as leader of the Independents.

The 1662 prayer book was printed only two years after the restoration of the monarchy, following the Savoy Conference between representative Presbyterians and twelve bishops which was convened by Royal Warrant to " advise upon and review the Book of Common Prayer ".

The Presbyterians and the Scots, after, Cornet George Joyce of Fairfax's horse seized upon the person of the King for the army ( 3 June 1647 ), began at once to prepare for a fresh civil war, this time against Independency, as embodied in the New Model Army and after making use of its sword, its opponents attempted to disband it, to send it on foreign service, to cut off its arrears of pay, with the result that it became exasperated beyond control, and, remembering not merely its grievances but also the principle for which it had fought, soon became the most powerful political party in the realm.

They had no desire to start new congregations in their new home, and had been advised to seek the pastoral care of the Scottish Free Presbyterians upon their arrival in Australia.

The work is a satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War.

Originally run by English Presbyterians, it was one of several dissenting academies that provided religious nonconformists with higher education, as at the time the only universities in England, Oxford and Cambridge, were restricted to Anglicans.

The present university was first chartered as " Queen's College, Belfast " in 1845, when it was associated with the simultaneously founded Queen's College, Cork and Queen's College, Galway as part of the Queen's University of Ireland – founded to encourage higher education for Catholics and Presbyterians, as a counterpart to Trinity College, Dublin, then an Anglican institution.

Bible Presbyterians do not have synod-controlled boards for missions and education, but annually approve independent agencies for mission work, as well as colleges and seminaries.

It is generally considered that the point of such learning is to enable one to put one's faith into practice ; some Presbyterians generally exhibit their faith in action as well as words, by generosity, hospitality, and the constant pursuit of social justice and reform, as well as proclaiming the gospel of Christ.

Having been brought up among Presbyterians, however, and having an investigating turn of mind, instead of quietly learning Methodist theology he troubled his teacher with questions of election, universal salvation, and many other subjects, until it was politely hinted that he was more likely to succeed in life as a farmer than as a clergyman.

In the 1640s the Particular Baptists were formed, diverging strongly from Arminian doctrine and embracing the strong Calvinism of the Presbyterians and Independents.

Denominations leaning in the Calvinist direction are grouped as the Reformed churches and include Particular Baptists, Reformed Baptists, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists.

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.

It is also used by Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists.

Attempts by the Presbyterians led by Richard Baxter to gain approval for an alternative service book failed.

This, however, drew the Presbyterians closer to the Church of England in their common desire to resist ' popery '; talk of reconciliation and liturgical compromise was thus in the air.

The Presbyterians could achieve toleration of their practices without such a right being given to Roman Catholics and without, therefore, their having to submit to the Church of England, even with a liturgy more acceptable to them.

The Church of South India was the first modern Episcopal uniting church, consisting as it did, from its foundation in 1947, at the time of Indian independence, of Anglicans, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Reformed Christians.

It is also used by Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists.

Most settlers in the American Mid-Atlantic and New England were Calvinists, including the English Puritans, the French Huguenot and Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam ( New York ), and the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of the Appalachian back country.

In Pride's Purge, all members of parliament ( including most of the political Presbyterians ) who would not accept the need to bring the King to trial had been removed.

They included: supporters of religious independents who did not want an established church and some of whom had sympathies with the Levellers ; Presbyterians who were willing to countenance the trial and execution of the King ; and later admissions, such as formerly excluded MPs who were prepared to denounce the Newport Treaty negotiations with the King.

It is also used by Presbyterians, Methodists, and Congregationalists.

Methodists and Presbyterians believe their denominations owe their origins to the Apostles and the early church, but do not claim descent from ancient church structures such as the episcopate.

After the forcible dissolution of the Rump Parliament by Oliver Cromwell, the Grandees of the Army Council of Officers were reluctant to authorise free elections because they were aware that the members returned by the traditional constituency would return Presbyterians and Royalists as well as their own sympathisers.

The following year Charles, while he was being held captive in Carisbrooke Castle, entered into an agreement with moderate Scots Presbyterians.

The schisms left small denominations including the Free Presbyterians and a remnant that had not merged in 1900 as the Free Church.

During the English Civil War, the Calvinistic Puritans produced the Westminster Confession, which became the confessional standard for Presbyterians in the English-speaking world.

Such was his frustration during this period of rejection that he also applied to the Methodists, Independents and Presbyterians, and applications were even mailed directly to the Bishops of Chester and Lincoln and the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

Both were Presbyterians and strong Covenanters.

Many of the excluded members were Presbyterians.

In 1925, they merged with the Presbyterians, then by far the largest Protestant communion in Canada, most Congregationalists, Union Churches in Western Canada, and the American Presbyterian Church in Montreal, to form the United Church of Canada.

In a sense Molokans are Protestants for rejecting Orthodoxy, and like Presbyterians in that they have a council of dominant elders.

Officials of the Presbyterian Church USA report: " We acknowledge the role of scriptural authority in the Presbyterian Church, but Presbyterians generally do not believe in biblical inerrancy.