Report of the Auchterarder Case: The Earl of Kinnoull, and the Rev. R. Young, Against the Presbytery of AuchterarderAdam and Charles Black, 1838 |
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... DISCIPLINE was prepared by Winram , Spottiswoode , and Knox . But it never was sanctioned , and consequently never became the law of the church . It is understood to have been very hastily prepared , and to require the revision which it ...
... DISCIPLINE was prepared by Winram , Spottiswoode , and Knox . But it never was sanctioned , and consequently never became the law of the church . It is understood to have been very hastily prepared , and to require the revision which it ...
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... Discipline . He seems to have thought , that the election of mini- sters should be by presbyteries , adjecting at the same time the con- sent , assent , or will of the congregation . And accordingly , in the Second Book of Discipline ...
... Discipline . He seems to have thought , that the election of mini- sters should be by presbyteries , adjecting at the same time the con- sent , assent , or will of the congregation . And accordingly , in the Second Book of Discipline ...
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... Discipline , in chap . 7 , which treats " of the El- " derships , and Assemblies , and Discipline , " contains the fol- lowing sections in reference to the powers of presbyteries in par- ticular , in whom , by the prior section , it was ...
... Discipline , in chap . 7 , which treats " of the El- " derships , and Assemblies , and Discipline , " contains the fol- lowing sections in reference to the powers of presbyteries in par- ticular , in whom , by the prior section , it was ...
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... discipline thereof foresaid , to be in all " times cumming maist just , gude , and godly in theselfe , not- " withstanding of quhat - sumever statutes , actes , canone , civill or " municipal lawes , made in the contrare . To the ...
... discipline thereof foresaid , to be in all " times cumming maist just , gude , and godly in theselfe , not- " withstanding of quhat - sumever statutes , actes , canone , civill or " municipal lawes , made in the contrare . To the ...
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... Discipline nor in the statute 1592 , is any such unlimited power given to the church courts , or any right of veto ... Discipline , had indeed placed the election of pas- " tors in the people at large . But when the points not ...
... Discipline nor in the statute 1592 , is any such unlimited power given to the church courts , or any right of veto ... Discipline , had indeed placed the election of pas- " tors in the people at large . But when the points not ...
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Page 25 - ... as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, and not liable to waver with every new judge's opinion ; as also because the law in that case being solemnly declared and determined, what before was uncertain, and perhaps indifferent, is now become a permanent rule, which it is not in the breast of any subsequent judge to alter or vary from, according to his private sentiments...
Page 350 - 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 306 - Right, it is declared, that Prelacy, and the superiority of any office in the church above presbyters, is and hath been a great and insupportable grievance and trouble to this nation, and contrary to the inclinations of the generality of the people ever since the Reformation, they having reformed from Popery by presbyters, and therefore ought to be abolished...
Page 106 - 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 25 - And therefore, even, so early as the conquest, we find the " praeteritorum memoria eventorum" reckoned up as one of the chief qualifications of those who were held to be "legibus patriae optime instituti." (o) For it is an established rule to abide by former precedents, where the same points come again in litigation : as well to keep the scale of justice even and steady, and not liable to waver with every new judge's opinion...
Page 33 - And I consent to the registration hereof in the books of council and session, or any other judges books competent; therein to remain for preservation; and thereto I constitute my procurators, &c.
Page 407 - ... heads of families, members 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 and due notice thereof forthwith given to all concerned...
Page 407 - And farther declare, that no person shall be held to be entitled to disapprove as aforesaid, who shall refuse, if required, solemnly to declare in presence of the Presbytery, that he is actuated by no factious or malicious motive, but solely by a conscientious regard to the spiritual interests of himself or the congregation.
Page 338 - ... the major part of the male heads of families, members 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...
Page 8 - Therefore it ought and should be found and declared by decree of the lords of our council and session, that in consequence of the death of C.