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... parishes will have an influential voice . Every true Protestant should reject the hierarchical course ; which may be very serviceable , perhaps , for ancient Egypt , or modern Rome , but is unsuited to Great Britain . The ideas which I ...
... parishes will have an influential voice . Every true Protestant should reject the hierarchical course ; which may be very serviceable , perhaps , for ancient Egypt , or modern Rome , but is unsuited to Great Britain . The ideas which I ...
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... parish , to refuse the minister who is presented to it , so that he may not be imposed upon them against their consent , even when the higher ecclesiastical authorities do not concur in their objections . This is an important point in ...
... parish , to refuse the minister who is presented to it , so that he may not be imposed upon them against their consent , even when the higher ecclesiastical authorities do not concur in their objections . This is an important point in ...
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... parish to receive any minister is to be submitted , not to a civil court , but to an ecclesi- astical assembly , to a presbytery , for instance , or to a synod , the kingship of Christ , as the Church of Scotland understands it , is in ...
... parish to receive any minister is to be submitted , not to a civil court , but to an ecclesi- astical assembly , to a presbytery , for instance , or to a synod , the kingship of Christ , as the Church of Scotland understands it , is in ...
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... parishes . The General Assembly , not daring to resist these pretensions , replied , that the presentation in certain cases belonged to the patrons , but the definitive appointment belonged to the church ; because if the church had not ...
... parishes . The General Assembly , not daring to resist these pretensions , replied , that the presentation in certain cases belonged to the patrons , but the definitive appointment belonged to the church ; because if the church had not ...
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... parish , when it was read and sworn to by the minister , elders , and people . Livingston , yet a young minister , having been called upon to preach in the church of Shotts , in the year 1630 , on a Communion day , had passed the whole ...
... parish , when it was read and sworn to by the minister , elders , and people . Livingston , yet a young minister , having been called upon to preach in the church of Shotts , in the year 1630 , on a Communion day , had passed the whole ...
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Page 354 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 256 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 368 - And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Page 461 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Page 287 - If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; if my people which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways : then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Page 21 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 256 - What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops. And be not afraid of them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Page 90 - Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
Page 419 - If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Page 356 - What do I see but Christ, in one of his members, wrestling there? Think you that we are the sufferers ? No, it is Christ in us ; for he sends none a warfare on their own charges.