Sir, you are in covenant with God and His people, and are obliged to maintain presbyterial government, as well against erastians as sectaries.
They deceive kings who make them believe that the government of the kirk--I mean presbyterial government--cannot suit with monarchy.
Finally, That the pattern of the said presbytery and presbyterial government is for a rule to the churches of Christ in all after ages, may appear as followeth: 1.
That Jesus Christ hath laid down in his word a pattern of a synod, yea, of a juridical synod, consisting of governing officers of divers presbyterial churches, is manifest, Acts xv.
All censures and acts of government are dispensed in congregational presbyteries subordinately, dependently, with liberty of appeal in all cases to presbyterialor synodal assemblies; where parties grieved have sufficient remedy.
That there is in the word a pattern of one presbyterial government in common over divers single congregations in one church.
What true excellency is there at all in the whole independent government, save only in those particulars wherein it agrees with the presbyterial government; and only so far as it is presbyterial?
What probability or possibility of tyranny in the presbyterial government?
The imputation itself is, that the presbyterial government is likely to be an arbitrary and tyrannical government.
A heinous charge, could it be proved against the presbyterial government.
The guides of the church are worthy of double honor, both in respect of governing and teaching, but especially for their pains in teaching; so noting two parts or duties of presbyterial offices, not two sorts of presbyters.
How many true excellences are there in the way of the presbyterial government, wherein it utterly surpasses the independent government!
Of healing common scandals and errors, troubling divers presbyterial churches by the authoritative decrees of a synod, made up of members from divers presbyterial churches, as Acts xv.
The officers of such presbyterial churches met together for acts of church government: as, to take charge of the church's goods, and of the due distribution thereof, Acts iv.
I admire what opinion Mr Hussey can have of the Parliamentary vote concerning presbyterial government.
After it was resolved and voted in both the honourable houses of Parliament, and sent as one of the propositions to the treaty at Uxbridge, “That many particular congregations shall be under one presbyterial government.
But I must first ask, Whence is this fear of the proud swelling waves of presbyterial government?
I should have expected some examples of evils and mischiefs which presbyterial government hath brought upon other reformed churches.
If no church government, then no presbyterial government.
Having told us of the proud swelling waves of presbyterial government, I asked upon what coast had those waves done any hurt, France, or Scotland, or Holland, or terra incognita?
There were no diocesan, no presbyterial or other courts.
So also Zwingli’s view of the relation of church and state was in much greater favour than the Calvinistic Presbyterial church government with its terrorist discipline.
Spener himself indeed preferred the Calvinistic presbyterial constitution, because only in it could equality be given to all the three orders, ministerium ecclesiasticum, magistratus politicus, status œconomicus.
The Presbyterians=, of Scotch origin, have the same confession as the Congregationalists, but differ from them by having a common church government with strict Synodal and Presbyterial constitution.
In autumn, 1884, the movement on behalf of the restoration of a presbyterial and synodal constitution of the Hessian evangelical church, which had been delayed for fourteen years, was resumed.
If this church is Presbyterial in practice, it is on no better footing than that of the Revolution Church of Scotland.
Second, when this paper comes to be interpreted by its framers and signers, it seems to cover only the American Testimony and Terms, as remodeled by breach of presbyterial order.
The unfaithfulness of this body appears further, in shunning to declare the divine right and unalterableness of Presbyterial Church Government, she testifies not against Prelacy or Independency.
In the above mentioned year 1560, the first book of policy and discipline, containing the form and order of presbyterialchurch government, was composed, approven and subscribed by the ministry, and a great part of the nobility.
In the event of the presbyteries refusing to return the King's nominees, these were instructed to appear without anypresbyterial mandate.
The Superintendents were only ministers, or elders appointed provisionally by the General Assembly, to whom such presbyterial functions were delegated as the exigencies of the Church required.
Farther it was announced that Parliament reserved the question of the amount of toleration to be granted under the new Presbyterial rule to "tender consciences that differ not in fundamentals of Religion.
Resolved: That many particular Congregations shall be under one Presbyterial government.
But, apart from the Covenant, how did the Propositions treat the cause of Presbyterial government in England and of conformity of Church-rule in the two kingdoms?
But was it not the main end of the Covenant that Presbyterial Government should be legally settled in England?
The hierarchical system should be replaced by the apostolic presbyterial constitution.
Its ideal embraced the restoration of the primitive apostolic presbyterial and synodal constitution, together with the church’s unconditional independence of the State.
The introduction of this presbyterial constitution into Reformed national churches of large extent must have contributed to their further extension and to the maintenance of the national church unity.
The purport of the paper was to signify that the signers were doubtful of the validity, or persuaded of the invalidity, of presbyterial as distinguished from episcopal ordination.
The ladies of the Winnipeg Presbyterial had arranged a series of meetings for me in Winnipeg, Brandon, and other places in that vicinity, about ten in all.
A few days later I was speaking at a Presbyterial gathering in western Ontario.
And the same year the book of discipline, containing the form and order of presbyterial government, was subscribed by a great part of the nobility.
These charges were contemptuously dismissed by the presbyterial court.
Now it is indeed quite conceivable that in these cases he adhered more closely to the already existing presbyterial constitution of the mother church at Jerusalem (Acts xi.
In this case the rigorist and presbyterialinterests coincide.
The most essential and proper are these two: overthrow of the Episcopal, and erection of Presbyterial authority.
In the Presbyterial Government every Congregation hath a voyce, by the Pastors and Elders thereof, and so is governed by a power intrinsecall to it self, which cannot in its own nature be tyrannicall.
And thus we have shewed that the Presbyterial Government is not new to the Word of God, as some falsly object.
That this charge, if understood of those Congregations, that are reformed according to the rules of the Presbyterial Government, is most untrue and unrighteous.
The Presbyterial Government challengeth no power over mens bodies or estates.
My Communion, put off till the end of a longsome and rainy harvest, and the presbyterial exercise (as the bearer can inform your Ladyship), hindered me to see you.
Nor was it either necessary or expedient, that your w[isdoms] should be troubled and put to any presbyterial testimony, upon the ground of a private missive letter, written by misinformation.
This was true: the ruling classes had seen too much of presbyterial government, and would prefer bishops as long as they were not pampered and all-powerful.
Long experience had taught him the inconveniences of presbyterial government as it then existed in Scotland.
Whether he had assertedpresbyterial government to be jure divino?
He refuted the independents and asserted presbyterial government, as is evident from that work of his, wrote in opposition to Nicolas Lockier's little stone hewed out of the mountain, and his other books that are in print.
God; commending the institution, dignity, and blessing ofpresbyterial government; he said, The last words of the national covenant had always a great weight upon his spirit.
The General Synod did, in 1840, abolish its own deligation form and the Subordinate Synods in violation of conventional law and Presbyterial order, and still continues to adhere to this two-fold breach of the brotherly covenant.
The allegation that presbyterial government existed in all its integrity towards the end of the second century does not rest on the foundation of obscure intimations or doubtful inferences.
This extract proves that the Church of Smyrna continued under presbyterial government long after the time of Polycarp.
If our Presbyterial order be scriptural, all these churches at Amoy, growing out of each other, are bound to associate together, ecclesiastically.
Hence, even yet, the principles for which the Missionaries contend must remain the true policy of our Church, for they lie at the very foundation of Presbyterial order.
It will be destroying a real unity for the sake of creating one, which, at the best, can be only nominal, and hence will really be a violation of Presbyterial order.
I would use the phrase Scriptural church polity, but I suppose it is the universal belief of our Church, that Presbyterial polity is scriptural.
The continuance of the former is subject to renewal every two or three years by the Presbyterial Council.
But his decline into Rationalism had been so rapid that the Presbyterial Council refused to renew the mandate, and he lost his position as suffragan by a vote of twelve against three.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presbyterial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
