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Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… were agreed upon:First, "It is found that all such as the Scripture appointeth governours of the Kirk, to wit, … because they are neither commanded nor warranded by Scripture, and that such as observe them be punished by … of controversie and chronologie, anent particular texts of Scripture, how they may be interpreted according to the …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… use small and minced oaths. 9. Some so great strangers to Scripture, that except in their publike ministerie, though … read many things, yet they are little conversant in the Scripture, and in meditation thereofa dutie incumbent to all … their time in private, in reading of and meditating on Scripture, that the Word of God may dwell plentifullie in …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… or mentioned to have been inflicted in that portion of Scripture which is read, use may be made to make all the … counsell of Godand as he hath occasion from the text of Scripture, to reprove the sins and errours, and presse the …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… of all ranks, not sparing kings, states, nor kingdoms, the Scripture maketh it most plain to all that look thereon. … it be any ways credible or probable, or agreeable to Scripture rules, that the generality of all that have been … publishing the particular grounds and reasons thereof from Scripture, (a work more proper for full tractates, then for …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… performance of his duty to his people, it is consonant to Scripture and reason, and the laws of the kingdom, that they …
Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
… of the deadand, in a word, the certainty and authority of Scripture revelation; as also, their asserting that there …