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Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… 2. Even where there is a minister and elders in a congregation constiuting a session, there may be need of more … the heads of families, and of those quarters of the congregation to which the elders wanting belonged, thereby to … where others can be had, and the edification of the congregation would therein be studied. 6. When the …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… to bring the persons guilty oftener than once before the congregation, the General Assembly does hereby appoint and … be publicly pronounced against them in face of the congregation, from which they are not to be relaxed, nor … that he admitted a man belonging to another planted congregation to a public profession of repentance, and …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… and require their appearance in presence of the congregation to be rebuked, before relaxation; but the weight … to bring the persons guilty oftener than once before the congregation, the rules prescribed by the fourth Act of the … that a true narrative of the case be laid before the congregation, and intimation given, that there can be no …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… ought, besides what is incumbent to them in the public congregation, to take special care and inspection of the … than it is to dispense the word in common in the public congregation. "2. That such a time in the year be chosen for … settling any minister or probationer having Irish in any congregation in the Lowlands, unless such persons have been …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… of God in this Church, entitled, "Of the Assembling of the Congregation, and their Behaviour in the Public Worship of … the premises, and settle any in these circumstances in a congregation having only the English language, the Assembly … person so settled shall be transportable to any Highland congregation that shall call him, and shall be liable to be …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… any minister to take upon him to preach in any vacant congregation, not within the bounds of his own Presbytery, …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… or mother, give evidence to Church judicatories, and the congregation offended, of their repentance for removing the … commenced, that they may cause intimate the same in their congregation. And the Assembly advises Church judicatories to …