A Compendium of the Laws of the Church of Scotland ...

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R. Buchanan, 1831

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Page 283 - AB do swear and as I shall answer to God at the great day of judgment...
Page 239 - Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him ; to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by...
Page 222 - I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the word of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation; and I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrines and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
Page 393 - That if any person shall forge or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be forged or counterfeited, any...
Page 100 - Assembly understandeth some parts of the second article of the thirtyone chapter only of kirks not settled, or constituted in point of government : And that although, in such kirks, a synod of Ministers, and other fit persons, may be called by the Magistrate's authority and nomination, without any other call, to consult and advise with about matters of religion...
Page 385 - AND be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said lords of council and session as commissioners aforesaid, and they are hereby empowered and required, to establish rules and regulations for abridging the forms and...
Page 355 - Parliament, do statute and declare that in case of the vacancy of any particular church, and for supplying the same with a minister, the heritors of the said parish (being Protestants) and the elders are to name and propose the person to the whole congregation, to be either approven or disapproven by them...
Page 100 - Assembly to be most agreeable to the Word of God, and in nothing contrary to the received doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of this Kirk.
Page 363 - ... not already provided, by advice of the heritors and minister of the parish ; and for that effect, that the heritors in every parish meet, and provide a commodious house for a school, and settle and modify a...
Page 400 - An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of Corn," it is enacted, that whenever foreign corn, meal, or flour, shall be admissible under the provisions of an act, passed in the fifty-fifth year of the reign of his late majesty, king George the third, intituled " An Act to amend the Law now in force for regulating the Importation of Corn...

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