 | Samuel Miller - Clergy - 1809 - 444 pages
...by congregational, presbyterial and synodical assemblies. In full consistency with this belief, \ve embrace, in the spirit of charity, those Christians who differ from us, in opinion or in practice, on these subjects. " II. These assemblies ought not to possess any civil jurisdiction,... | |
 | Samuel Miller - Clergy - 1830 - 556 pages
...I. It is absolutely necessary that the government of the church be exercised under some certain and definite form : and we hold it to be expedient, and...those Christians who differ from us, in opinion or in practice, on these subjects. " II. These assemblies ought not to possess any civil jurisdiction... | |
 | James Todd, Ashbel Green - Presbyterian Church - 1839 - 636 pages
...1. It is absolutely necessary that the government of the church be exercised under some certain and definite form. And we hold it to be expedient, and...from us, in opinion or practice, on these subjects. 2. These Assemblies ought not to possess any civil jurisdiction, nor to inffict any civil penalties.... | |
 | Samuel Miller, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Church polity - 1839 - 606 pages
...Tt is absolutely necessary that the government of the Church be exercised • under some certain and definite form. And we hold it to be expedient, and...from us, in opinion or practice, on these subjects. " 2. These Assemblies ought not to possess any civil jurisdiction, nor to inflict any civil penalties.... | |
 | William Orme - 1840 - 262 pages
...and definite form. And we hold it to be expedient, and agreeable to Scripture, and the practice of primitive Christians, that the Church be governed...from us, in opinion or practice, on these subjects." Though Mr. Orme, whom we chiefly follow in this compend, has thought proper to introduce into his biography... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - Bible - 1843 - 914 pages
...of the church be exercised under some certain and definite form. And we hold it to be expedient, nnd agreeable to Scripture and the practice of the primitive...those Christians who differ from us in opinion or in practice on these subjects. IF. These assemblies ought not to possess any civil jurisdiction, nor... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - Presbyterian Church in the United States - 1856 - 474 pages
...pnctice of the primitive Christians, that the church be governed by congregational, presbyterial, nnd synodical assemblies. In full consistency with this...those Christians who differ from us, in opinion or in practice, on these subjects'1. II. These assemblies ought not to possess any civil jurisdiction,... | |
 | Philip Lindsley - 1866 - 726 pages
..." It is absolutely necessary that the government of the church be exercised under some certain and definite form. And we hold it to be expedient, and...those Christians who differ, from us, in opinion 'or in practice, on these subjects/' THE NECESSITY OF KEGENEKATION. [NEWTOWN, LONG ISLAND, 1811.] THE NECESSITY... | |
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IT is absolutely necessary that the government of the church be exercised under some certain and definite form. And we hold it to be expedient, and agreeable to Scripture and the practice of the primitive Christians, that the church be governed by congregational,... 
