Of course it is an open secret that what is aimed at is the destruction of the Catholic Church in France, and the establishment, if possible, of a national church with a "civil constitution of the clergy" as was attempted in 1792.
But let it be what it will, so as still a due respect be paid to those congregations and churches which desire an exemption, and liberty of enjoying Christ's ordinances in such purity as a National Church is not capable of.
Absolute Liberty of Conscience, and No National Church, or State- interference with Religion, of any kind whatsoever.
And so it was maintained, against the Roman Catholics, and against the Confessions of all the various established Protestant Churches, that there could be, and ought to be, no Imperial or National Church.
He did not think there could be Liberty of Conscience, in the perfect and absolute sense, where there was a National Church, even if free dissent were allowed from that Church.
That which is essential to a National Church is, that it should undertake to assist the spiritual progress of the nation and of the individuals of which it is composed, in their several states and stages.
A national Church must be concerned with the ethical development of its members.
This measure would have embarrassed a national church, and thus (1834) the general assembly repudiated an appellate jurisdiction.
The usual argument against the universal equality of the Scots' national church, was the fact that the laws of England, and not the laws of Scotland, were binding in the colonies.
The patriarch and his synod now stigmatized Phyletism, the struggle for a national church establishment, as accursed heresy, and excommunicated the exarch and the whole Bulgarian church.
The Byzantine church, on the other hand, falling into a state of inward stagnation, and pressed from without by the forces of Islam, passes into decay as a national church.
A national church cannot do it; far less can the sects do it.
So it will be before long in all Protestant nations that have a national church.
The Italians have a national church in San Francisco, and the French have a special pastor attached to one of the parochial churches of the city for their benefit.
Thus, a National Church is the local presentment of the Catholic Church in the nation.
As such, the duty of a National Church is two-fold.
Thus, the faith of a National Church is not the changing faith of a passing majority; it is the unchanging faith of a permanent Body, the Catholic Church.
Where his idea of a National Church prevailed, there the strongest bond of union disappeared completely.
Yet, at the same time, he was working for a National Church, albeit he was convinced that such a Church would for the most part be composed of non-Christians.
A national church is to be established in Germany, just as it is in Russia.
On the other hand, I do not deny that liberalism in its spiritually rotten condition, devoid as it is of every high aspiration, is ripe for the establishment of a national church, which is to be fashioned after the Russian model.
The earliest practical attempts began with the union of German Churchmen at Constance and the scheme for a National Church of Germany; and the dream of ecclesiastical unity brought in its train the aspiration after political oneness.
Gradually under Frederick and his successors there arose what was practically a national Church of Brandenburg, which was almost completely under the control of the civil power, and almost entirely separated from Roman control.
And everywhere his object was the same--the formation of societies for Christian fellowship within the National Church.
The first is the only one which may justly claim the title of a national church, because she has at her head a Christian King of the same rite, which circumstance is absolutely required to constitute a national church.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "national church" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
