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Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… this opportunity to do what may be further necessary for promoting religion, discouraging profaneness and immorality, and preventing the growth of Popery. For these ends, we recommend to you to continue your care for providing for such churches as are still vacant with …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… is enjoined in the first head of the Assembly's Directory for the Public Worship of God in this Church, entitled, "Of … is to take a young man under trial, who hath lived for some time of his younger years in the Highlands, or where … observed the rules sent with these libraries, and what improvements they are making of them, and other things …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… cheerful concurrence in whatever methods shall be taken for the promoting true religion and piety, the discouraging profaneness and immorality, and for the preventing the growth of Popery. The differences which have for some time been among you on account of the oaths, I hope, …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… many proofs we have received of your zeal and affection for our person and government, of your care and concern for the peace and welfare of the Church, for the suppressing of profaneness and immorality, and the …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… last General Assembly in favour of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge. There was brought into the General Assembly, from their Committee for Bills, the petition and representation of the Society in Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, showing that the …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… 1744.Act appointing Presbyteries to keep separate Records, for inserting Particulars relating to the Scheme for a … also, all other lists that shall be found necessary by the trustees, which lists are to be "attested by the moderator … and clerk of every Presbytery, and transmitted to the trustees' clerk residing at Edinburgh, under a certain …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… remarkable loyalty and affection you have ever expressed for our person and government in your former Assemblies, … having had laid before them a representation of the trustees, nominated and appointed by the late Act of … the lists of particulars necessary to be known by the trustees, it was with the utmost difficulty that they could …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… attachment to our person and government, and of your zeal for the support of the Protestant succession, engage us to … our person in this Assembly, who, from his known zeal for our service, his firm adherence to the true interest of … in putting so high an honour upon us, as to give us thanks for doing what we were unquestionably bound to do, we look …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… you have given in your former Assemblies of your zeal for the advancement of true religion, and the experience we … Widows, &c., and enjoining Presbyteries to transmit to the Trustees regularly their Annual Lists. The General Assembly … collector for the L.30 sterling ordered for them by the trustees, according to the directions of the Assembly; …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… &c. IV. Sess. 8, May 19, 1749.Act and Recommendation for Preaching on the Principles of the Reformation and … and art with which they endeavour to lessen people's zeal for the Protestant religion, and to carry them off from their … our liberties and properties under a legal government. And for these purposes, and perpetuating the memory of the great …