Scotland's Free Church: A Historical Retrospect and Memorial of the DisruptionA. Constable, 1893 - 392 pages |
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SCOTLANDS FREE CHURCH A HISTOR George Buchanan Ryley,John MacGregor McAndlish No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 302 - Establishment, and thereupon adopting such measures as may be competent to us, in humblo dependence on God's grace and the aid of the Holy Spirit, for the advancement of His glory, the extension of the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour, and the administration of the affairs of Christ's house according to His Holy "Word...
Page 302 - ... from an Establishment which we loved and prized, through interference with conscience, the dishonour done to Christ's crown, and the rejection of His sole and supreme authority as King in his Church.
Page 163 - Is it therefore infallibly agreeable to the Word of God, all that you say? I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Page 119 - I must tell you, there are two Kings and two Kingdoms in Scotland. There is Christ Jesus the King, and His Kingdom the Kirk, whose subject King James the Sixth is — and of whose kingdom not a king, nor a lord, nor a head, but a member!
Page 267 - The Lord Jesus, as King and Head of his Church, hath therein appointed a government, in the hand of Church officers, distinct from the civil magistrate.
Page 302 - WE PROTEST, that in the circumstances in which we are placed, it is and shall be lawful for us, and such other commissioners chosen to the Assembly appointed to have been this day holden as may concur with us...
Page 158 - Men whose life, learning, faith, and pure intent Would have been held in high esteem with Paul, Must now be named and printed heretics By shallow Edwards and Scotch What d'ye call.
Page 252 - And they do farther resolve that this spiritual jurisdiction and the supremacy and sole Headship of the Lord Jesus Christ, on which it depends — they will assert, and at all hazards defend, by the help and blessing of that great God who, in the days of old, enabled their fathers...
Page 15 - ... our early churches was less the result of the poverty or ignorance of their founders than of choice, originating in the spirit of their faith, or a veneration for some model given them by their first teachers, for that the earliest Christian churches on the Continent before the time of Constantino were like these, small and unadorned, there is no reason to doubt.
Page 268 - BO long as this matter continues on its present footing, fully to vindicate, or effectually to apply her inherent and fundamental principles; and it is now more than ever our firm persuasion, that the Church ought to be wholly delivered from the interference of any secular or worldly right at all, with her deliberations relative to the settlement of ministers. We declare, therefore, our determination to seek the removal of this yoke, which neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear...