This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...controversy resulting in the expulsion from its fellowship of James Morrison, an able exegetical scholar. In 1847 the more comprehensive union with the Relief Church led to the organization of the United Presbyterian Church, one of the most aggressive religious agencies in Scotland. Overtures for union with the Free ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...controversy resulting in the expulsion from its fellowship of James Morrison, an able exegetical scholar. In 1847 the more comprehensive union with the Relief Church led to the organization of the United Presbyterian Church, one of the most aggressive religious agencies in Scotland. Overtures for union with the Free Church were begun in 1862, which resulted, however, only in a mutual eligibility scheme, which permitted a congregation of either church to call a minister from the other. The Presbyterian Church in England had its origin independently of that in Scotland. Its genealogy has been traced back to the Culdees and the Lollards, but more directly it was the offspring of the sturdy Puritanism which was developed in opposition to the Prelatic Church of Queen Elizabeth, with its theory of the absolute supremacy of the sovereign over both Church and State. "The first English presbytery," says Dr. William Graham, ."was organized in 1572 near London. It is interesting to note that fourteen days afterwards John Knox died in Edinburgh. The cradle of English Presbyterianism was rocked beside the death-bed of the great Reformer, who, twenty years earlier, had sown in England the seeds from which came the harvest." Within the Church of England, too, the Puritan doctrinal element developed in opposition to the prelatic teachings of Laud. In 1647 the Long Parliament abolished Prelacy and established Presbyterianism. The Westminster Assembly had already drawn up its memorable Confession and Shorter and Longer Catechisms. For twenty years Presbyterianism was the national Church. But by the Act of Uniformity on St. Bartholomew's day, 1662, Presbyterianism was disestablished, and two thousand ministers, most of them Presbyterian, were ejected from ...
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Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 3/4 burgundy leather binding with marbled boards and gilt decoration and titles. Marbled endpapers with name/nameplate/sticker to front endpapers. Gilt top edge. Bright clean book with very healthy leather binding with just slight shelfwear. Clean unmarked text; slightly shaken front hinge. An attractive book, illustrated. 463 pp + index.
