 The Parliament is the temporal head of the Church, from whose acts, and from whose acts alone, it exists as the National Church, and from which alone it derives all its powers.  Tracts - Page 9by British anti-state-church assoc - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Robert Hay-Drummond Kinnoull (10th Earl of), Charles Robertson - 1838 - 1018 lehte
...the form of prayer, and do many things, which by his sole authority he cannot do in our Church. But that our Saviour is the Head of the Kirk of Scotland...Church, and from which alone it derives all its powers. The act 1592 then goes on thus : " Ratifies and approves the " Presbyteries, &c. &c. with the haill... | |
 | Robert Buchanan - 1849 - 522 lehte
...PARLIAMENT is the temunquftlified * thTerSiwi poral head of the church, from whose acts, and from pnuapie. whose acts alone, it exists as the national church,...and from which alone it derives all its powers."* Grant this, and undoubtedly a foundation will be laid, broad enough to carry, not merely such an abstract... | |
 | Robert Buchanan - 1849 - 514 lehte
...PARLIAMENT is the temnnqualifjcd thfStai poral head of the church, from whose acts, and from prillc'pU!' whose acts alone, it exists as the national church,...and from which alone it derives all its powers."* Grant this, and undoubtedly a foundation will be laid, broad enough to carry, not merely such an abstract... | |
 | 1902 - 550 lehte
...judicial sense is a position which I can signify by no other name than absurdity. The Parliament is the head of the Church, from whose acts, and from whose...Church, and from which alone it derives all its powers. . . . Who gave the Church Courts any jurisdiction ? The law, and that alone, gave it, and the law defines... | |
 | Norman Lockhart Walker - 1877 - 598 lehte
...perverted." The Lord President (the Dean's father) was equally explicit. " That our Saviour," said he, " is the Head of the Kirk of Scotland, in any temporal,...Church, and from which alone it derives all its powers." In view of declarations like these, it seemed high time that the Church herself should speak out with... | |
 | Norman Lockhart Walker - 1877 - 600 lehte
...of the Court of Session had startled men in 1838 by saying: "That our Saviour is the Head of the Our Kirk of Scotland in any temporal, or legislative,...Church, and from which alone it derives all its powers." By this dictum, spoken twenty years before, people in their simplicity had been shocked. They were... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1878 - 694 lehte
...elaborate review of the ancient and early statutes, that (as the chief of the court expressed it) ' the Parliament is the temporal head of the Church, from whose acts alone it exists as the national Church, and from which alone it derives all its powers.' In the succeeding... | |
 | Norman Lockhart Walker - 1880 - 186 lehte
...Scotland may be gathered from one single deliverance of its Lord President. "That our Saviour," said he, "is the Head of the Kirk of Scotland in any temporal,...alone, it exists as the National Church, and FROM WHOM IT DERIVES ALL ITS POWERS." For a time it was not known how far those principles would be carried,... | |
 | James Taylor - 1882 - 340 lehte
...enunciated of his views on this point gave great offence at the time. 'That our Saviour,' he said, 'is the Head of the Kirk of Scotland in any temporal,...temporal Head of the Church, from whose Acts, and whose Acts alone, it exists as the national Church, and from which alone it derives all its powers.'... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - 1890 - 496 lehte
...Macfarlane's Late Secession, ch. iv. 3 Ten Years' Conflict, vol. i. pp. 390, 398. . forcible by adding,1 " That our Saviour is the head of the Kirk of Scotland,...whose acts alone, it exists as the National Church and derives all its powers." The decision of the Court of Session raised a ferment throughout Scotland.... | |
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