| Philip Schaff - Church history - 1877 - 948 pages
...that all blasphemies and heresies be suppressed, all corruptions d abuses in worship and disciline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed.1 For the better effecting whereof he hath power to call synods, to be present at them, and... | |
| Glasgow presbytery - Glasgow (Scotland) - 1808 - 306 pages
...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...synods, to be present at them, and to provide that wl^atsoever is transacted in them be according to the. mind of God. IV. It is the duty of people to... | |
| David Bogue, James Bennett - Dissenters - 1808 - 492 pages
...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...reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administred, and observed. For the better effecting thereof, he hath power to call synods, to be present... | |
| Glasgow (Scotland) - 1808 - 308 pages
...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...discipline prevented or reformed; and all the ordinances of C»od duly settled, administered, and observed. Foj: the better effecting whereof he hath power to... | |
| Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...Heb. v. 4. And no man taketh this honour unto himself, hut he that is called of God, as was Aaron. discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of God duly settled, administered, and observed f. For the better ( Isa. ilix. 23. And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their queens thy nursing-mothers... | |
| Nathaniel MORREN - 1813 - 132 pages
...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...is transacted in them be according to the mind of God." Then it is said in the next section, that it is the duty of people (among other things) to obey... | |
| Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...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...discipline prevented or reformed, and all the ordinances of Goct duly settled, administered, and observed f. * For the better incense: go out of the sanctuary,... | |
| Robert Adam - Deism - 1818 - 520 pages
...mi* The Confession of Faith admits that the civil magistrate may call Synods, be present at them, and provide that whatsoever is transacted in them be according to the mind of God.— Dr. Hill's Theol. Instit. p. 152. nisters and one ruling elder; — if it contain between 12... | |
| William Johnson Fox - Christianity - 1819 - 344 pages
...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...is transacted in them, be according to the mind of God." Many of the sects which had not the opportunity of forming this unholy alliance, yet retained... | |
| Thomas M'Crie - Christian union - 1821 - 192 pages
...Parliament of Scotland. ' After stating that the magistrate has power to call synods, it is added, " to be present at them, and to provide that whatsoever...is transacted in them, be according to the mind of God." Not to insist here, that these words ought, in fair construction, to be understood of such synods... | |
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