'Presbytery examined', an essay on the ecclesiastical history of Scotland since the Reformation |
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abstract Andrew Melville Apostles argument Arnold Assembly assertion authority believe Bishops body Book of Discipline brethren bytery Catechism cause character Charles Christian Church Church of Scotland Churchmen circumstances civil power claims clergy Confession connection constitution contest conviction corruption Council course Covenant Covenanters Cromwell Crown defend distinction Divine doctrine dogma duty ecclesiastical England English Church English Reformation Episcopacy Episcopal Erastian existence expressed extravagance fact faith fanaticism feeling Free Church Headship of Christ history of Scotland idea important independence influence interests John Knox Jus Divinum King language less liberty Melville ment mind ministers nature object opinions outward Parliament party passage passions political Prelates Presby Priest Priesthood Protestant Protestantism Puritan quoted referred religion religious represented respect Reviewer Rome Scotch Reformers Scottish Prelacy Scottish Presbytery Scottish Reformation Scripture sense spiritual Spottiswoode things tion true truth Tulchan Westminster Assembly words worship
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Page 360 - The civil magistrate may not assume to himself the administration of the Word and Sacraments, or the power of the keys of the kingdom of heaven: yet he hath authority, and it is his duty to take order, that unity and peace be preserved in the Church, that the truth of God be kept pure and entire, that all blasphemies and heresies be suppressed, all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed.
Page 193 - 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 357 - 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 361 - ... order, that unity and peace be preserved in the church, that the truth of God be kept pure and entire, that all blasphemies and heresies be suppressed, all corruptions and abuses in worship and discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed. For the better effecting whereof, he hath power to call synods, to be present at them, and to provide that whatsoever is transacted in them be according to the mind of God.
Page 346 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 151 - The scenic apparatus of divine worship is now under agitation; and those very things which you and I have so often laughed at, are now seriously and solemnly entertained by certain persons (for we are not consulted) as if the Christian religion could not exist without something tawdry.
Page xx - milk' the Church Lands and Tithes, to get the rents out of them freely, which was not always easy. They were glad to construct a Form of Bishops to please the King and Church, and make the milk come without disturbance. The reader now knows what a Tulchan Bishop was. A piece of mechanism constructed not without difficulty, in Parliament and King's Council, among the Scots...
Page xv - Providence, to the declaration of the great principle of this system, the doctrine of the King's Supremacy ; which is, in fact, no other than an assertion of the supremacy of the Church or Christian society over the clergy, and a denial of that which I hold to be one of the most mischievous falsehoods ever broached, — that the government of the Christian Church...
Page 255 - You are now devoted to God and the church ; on which account you ought to aim at being a good ecclesiastic, and to show that you prefer the honour and state of the. church, and of the apostolic see, to every other consideration.
Page 172 - Scotland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, against our common enemies; the reformation of religion in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the Word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches...