This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...AND REIDARIS IN THAIR OFFICE.. "According to all that I shew theo, both after tho fashion of the tabernacle, and after the fashion of all the ornaments thereof, even 80 shall ye make it." Exon. xxr. 9. BOOKS OF DISCIPLINE. Previously to the legal establishment of the Protestant religion in 1560, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...AND REIDARIS IN THAIR OFFICE.. "According to all that I shew theo, both after tho fashion of the tabernacle, and after the fashion of all the ornaments thereof, even 80 shall ye make it." Exon. xxr. 9. BOOKS OF DISCIPLINE. Previously to the legal establishment of the Protestant religion in 1560, the Book of Common Order used by the English Church at Geneva was generally followed as the rule of worship and discipline by the Soots Reformers; but that being found inadequate to the regulation of a church consisting of numerous congregations, a Book of Discipline adapted to the state of the Church was, soon after that event, urged upon the Parliament as a necessary accompaniment to the legal institution of the National Church. Parliament, however, was dissolved without any thing being done on this subject. But the Beformed clergy persevered, and the Privy-Council were induced to grant a commission to five ministers to frame such a standard of ecclesiastical government. When they had completed their task on 29th May, 1560, the "Book of Policy," or "First Book of Discipline," was submitted to the General Assembly, by whom it was approved; and, though not formally ratified by the Council, it was subscribed by a great portion of the members. Many of them, however, were opposed to it; and by some it was stigmatized as a "devout imagination." The " First Book of Discipline," therefore, though thus sanctioned by the Church, was never formally and fully approved by the civil authorities. After many commissions and conferences, with a view to the settlement of the discipline of the Church, it was finally agreed on by the General Assembly in 1581, and registered in the Acts of the Kirk. The Confession of...
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