The age we live in: a history of the nineteenth century, 3. köide,1. osa1882 |
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... Court of Session - It is violated by the Presbytery , who are rebuked by the Court - The Marnoch case - Conduct of the Presbytery of Strathbogie - Action of the Civil Court - Suspension of the Strathbogie ministers by the Church Courts ...
... Court of Session - It is violated by the Presbytery , who are rebuked by the Court - The Marnoch case - Conduct of the Presbytery of Strathbogie - Action of the Civil Court - Suspension of the Strathbogie ministers by the Church Courts ...
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... Courts in this matter had been for many years practically narrowed , and that it had come to be held that in general , when there was no deficiency of literature , or conduct , or doctrine , a presentee was en- titled to be admitted ...
... Courts in this matter had been for many years practically narrowed , and that it had come to be held that in general , when there was no deficiency of literature , or conduct , or doctrine , a presentee was en- titled to be admitted ...
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... courts were to proceed to consider the qualifica- tion , that the judgment of the inferior court might be carried to the superior , and that the final settlement of the matter lay with the General Assembly . Of the opinion of the people ...
... courts were to proceed to consider the qualifica- tion , that the judgment of the inferior court might be carried to the superior , and that the final settlement of the matter lay with the General Assembly . Of the opinion of the people ...
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... court could bestow on them . We sit in Synods and in General Assemblies solely and purely as ecclesiastical courts , but in Presbyteries in the double capacity of spiritual and temporal courts ; and as members of Presbytery we sit in ...
... court could bestow on them . We sit in Synods and in General Assemblies solely and purely as ecclesiastical courts , but in Presbyteries in the double capacity of spiritual and temporal courts ; and as members of Presbytery we sit in ...
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... courts , on any grounds whatever , was known in the Church of Scotland for 200 years after the Reformation . The Church of Scotland was established before it was endowed ; and hence the possession of an endowment could not possibly have ...
... courts , on any grounds whatever , was known in the Church of Scotland for 200 years after the Reformation . The Church of Scotland was established before it was endowed ; and hence the possession of an endowment could not possibly have ...
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Page 159 - The glimpse of the transept through the iron gates, the waving palms, flowers, statues, myriads of people filling the galleries and seats around, with the flourish of trumpets as we entered, gave us a sensation which I can never forget, and I felt much moved. We went for a moment to a little side room, where we left...
Page 157 - The honour paid to saints, the claim of infallibility for the Church, the superstitious use of the sign of the cross, the muttering of the Liturgy so as to disguise the language in which it is written, the recommendation of auricular confession, and the administration of penance and absolution...
Page 157 - There is an assumption of power in all the documents which have come from Rome ; a pretension of supremacy over the realm of England, and a claim to sole and undivided sway, which is inconsistent with the Queen's supremacy, with the rights of our bishops and clergy, and with the spiritual independence of the nation, as asserted even in Roman Catholic times.
Page 34 - Church; to receive complaints in cases of mal-administration, and authoritatively to determine the same: which decrees and determinations, if consonant to the Word of God, are to be received with reverence and submission, not only for their agreement with the Word, but also for the power whereby they are made, as being an ordinance of God, appointed thereunto in his Word.
Page 28 - Church, do declare, enact, and ordain that it shall be an instruction to Presbyteries that if, at the moderating in a call to a vacant pastoral charge, the major part of the male heads of families of the vacant congregation, and in full communion with the Church, shall disapprove of the person in whose favour the call is proposed to be moderated in, such disapproval shall be deemed sufficient ground for the Presbytery rejecting such person, and that he shall be rejected accordingly...
Page 34 - It belongeth to synods and councils, ministerially, to determine controversies of faith, and cases of conscience; to set down rules and directions for the better ordering of the public worship of God, and government of his Church; to receive complaints in cases of maladministration, and authoritatively to determine the same...
Page 157 - The recent assumption of certain ecclesiastical titles conferred by a foreign Power has excited strong feelings in this country, and large bodies of my subjects have presented addresses to me, expressing attachment to the throne, and praying that such assumptions should be resisted. I have assured them of my resolution to maintain the rights of my crown, and the independence of the nation...
Page 157 - There is a danger, however, which alarms me much more than any aggression of a foreign sovereign. Clergymen of our own Church, who have subscribed the Thirtynine Articles, and acknowledged in explicit terms the Queen's supremacy, have been the most forward in leading their flocks, "step by step, to the very verge of the precipice.
Page 157 - Even if it shall appear that the ministers and servants of the Pope in this country have not transgressed the law, I feel persuaded that we are strong enough to repel any outward attacks. The liberty of Protestantism has been enjoyed too long in England to allow of any successful attempt to impose a foreign yoke upon our minds and consciences.
Page 23 - ... with an eloquence the more to be admired because it was unaffected and unadorned : the name which ought to be chiefly associated with the success of these measures is the name of RICHARD COBDEN.