The Exodus of the Church of Scotland: And the Claims of the Free Church of Scotland to the Sympathy and Assistance of American ChristiansLeavitt, Trow & Company, 1844 - 146 pages |
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Page xiii - Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia ; how that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.
Page 99 - Parliament doth hereby establish and confirm the said true Protestant religion and the worship discipline and government of this Church to continue without any alteration to the people of this land in all succeeding generations...
Page 99 - ... or concerning any alteration of the Worship Discipline and Government of the Church of this Kingdom, as now by Law established, Which Treaty being now reported to the Parliament, and it being reasonable and necessary that the true Protestant Religion, as presently professed within this Kingdom with the Worship Discipline and Government of this Church should be effectually and unalterably secured...
Page 86 - 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 100 - And lastly, that after the decease of her present Majesty, (whom God long preserve) the sovereign succeeding to her in the royal government of the kingdom of Great Britain, shall in all time coming, at his or her accession to the crown, swear and subscribe, that they shall inviolably maintain and preserve the foresaid settlement of the true Protestant religion, with the government, worship, discipline, rights and privileges of this Church, as above established by the laws of this kingdom, in prosecution...
Page 144 - Establishment while we cannot comply with the conditions now deemed to be thereto attached — 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 130 - That it is a fundamental law of this Church, that no pastor shall be intruded on any congregation contrary to the will of the people...
Page 97 - ... the said true Protestant religion and the worship discipline and government of this Church to continue without any alteration to the people of this land in all succeeding generations and more especially her Majesty with advice and consent...
Page 115 - RIGHT, That she shall freely possess and enjoy her liberties, government, discipline, rights, and privileges, according to law, especially for the defence of the spiritual liberties of her people, and that she shall be protected therein from the foresaid unconstitutional and illegal encroachments of the said Court of Session, and her people secured in their Christian and constitutional rights and liberties.
Page 112 - Courts in the exercise of their purely spiritual functions, — have usurped the ' power of the keys,'— have wrongfully acclaimed, as the subjects of their civil jurisdiction, to be regulated by their decrees, ordination of laymen to the office of the holy ministry, admission to the cure of souls, Church censures, the preaching of the Word, and the administration of the Sacraments, — and have employed the means...