 | Church of Scotland. General Assembly - 1721 - 356 pages
...Appellations b« leaping over either Presbytery or Synod, but to afccnd by Degrees ; as, from the Kirk-feflion to the Presbytery, or from the Presbytery to the Synod, and from the Synod to the General Aflembly -, except it be aftor the Synod be paft, and immediately before the General Aflembly, or in... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1764 - 648 pages
...fhoutd be, leaping over either Prefbytery or Synod, but to all-cm! by Degrees as from the Kirk Seflion to the Presbytery, or from the Presbytery to the Synod, and from the Synod to the General Aflembly, except it he after the Synod be pad, and immediately before the General Aflembly, or in theTimJ... | |
 | 1845 - 786 pages
...with the ordination in the face of such a formidable opposition. The business was of course carried from the presbytery to the synod, and from the synod to the assembly, where, after a litigation of two years, the usual deliverance was given — that the settlement... | |
 | John Struthers - Jacobite Rebellion, 1715 - 1828 - 676 pages
...to violent settlements, and was upon the whole a popular minister. The case was carried, of course, from the presbytery to the synod, and from the synod to the General Assembly. Mr. Bonar, however, seems to have been unwilling to go to Jedburgh in the face of so much opposition,... | |
 | John Struthers - 1828 - 660 pages
...to violent settlements, and was upon the whole a popular minister. The case was carried, of course, from the presbytery to the synod, and from the synod to the General Assembly. Mr. Bonar, however, seems to have been unwilling to go to Jedburgh in the face of so much opposition,... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1831 - 552 pages
...presbyteries of Lerwick and Burravoe, and constituted the synod of Zetland. — Act 8. APPEALS*. 1639. That in all time thereafter, no appellations be, leaping...this effect are renewed. — Act Sess. 23, Aug. 30. 1643. That the foresaid acts anent appeals be extended also to bills and references ; that all bills... | |
 | John Hayward - Church statistics - 1836 - 168 pages
...Church, may, by appeal, or complaint, carry his cause up from the Church Session to the Presbytery, from the Presbytery to the Synod, and from the Synod to the General Assembly, so as to obtain the decision of the whole Church, met by representation in this high judicatory. Evangelical... | |
 | James Todd, Ashbel Green - Presbyterian Church - 1839 - 636 pages
...has the privilege of appeal to the higher judicatories, from the church session to the presbytery, from the presbytery to the synod, and from the synod to the General Assembly. These judicatories, or courts of justice, as they may be called, have each their appropriate functions.... | |
 | Scotland Church of gen. assembly - 1841 - 386 pages
...judgment. Mr Livingstone, however, had, in the course of the proceedings, appealed from the judgment of the presbytery to the synod, and from the synod to the General Assembly ; and the presbytery had now reason to believe that he did not intend to prosecute his appeal, with... | |
 | John M'Kerrow - Church of Scotland - 1841 - 982 pages
...with the ordination, in the face of such a formidable opposition. The business was, of course, carried from the presbytery to the synod, and from the synod to the Assembly, where, after a litigation of two years, the usual deliverance was given—that the settlement... | |
| |
Any member of the Presbyterian Church may be the subject of its discipline, and every member, if he judges himself injured by any portion of the Church, may, by appeal, or complaint, carry his cause up from the Church Session to the Presbytery, from the... 
