He no doubt had been taught by the presbytery to mock religious rites; and when desired to give God thanks for his meat, he said, "Take a sackful of prayers to the mill and grind them, and take your breakfast of them.
The presbytery being deeply affected with this new and strange appearance, do publish these sentiments,'" &c.
The pavement in the presbyteryis different, and is made principally of incised stone, with marble borders.
The works at York followed in the same order, but forty or fifty years later, by first erecting the presbytery outside the existing choir, and then taking down the latter and continuing the work of the presbytery to form the new choir.
By these arrangements the aspect of the whole interior of the choir and presbytery was made uniform.
In this way the choir and presbytery acquired a uniform appearance, both inside and out; for the portion of the old side aisle on the south is hidden by the sacristry, and that on the north by the chapter-house and vestibule.
The architectural history of the choir and presbytery is very interesting.
Probably the roof was lowered when the presbytery was built, and the whole roofing of the cathedral brought down to the same level.
Parliament, all the time, was trying to reconcile parties by changes in the law, but as it always insisted on making the presbytery the final judge of the fitness of presentees, the non-intrusionists would not hear of legislation.
The House of Lords had just declared that also to be illegal, when the Presbytery of Irvine met to elect commissioners to the General Assembly.
The presbytery thundered hoarsely against the profanation of the Sabbath as practised on Leith Pier, or round Arthur’s Seat.
The presbytery gave him a dinner, at which the chair was taken by the chief Sabbatarian.
And so it was; he had not retracted a syllable, nay more, he had distinctly stated in the presbytery that he departed from the Confession of Faith.
In defence of his action he delivered before thepresbytery a speech which lasted for nearly four hours.
The General Assembly ordered the presbyteryof Strathbogie not to take on trials a certain presentee who had been vetoed.
The presbytery of Glasgow, impelled by a public agitation against the running of trains on Sunday, issued a pastoral letter in which the sanctity of the Lord’s day was based on the Fourth Commandment.
But from that time until the opening of the West Branch Valley to settlement, following the first treaty at Fort Stanwix, nothing concerning the area appears on presbytery records.
In the days of the Fair Play system the area was assigned to Donegal Presbytery, although in 1786 the Carlisle Presbytery was formed out of the western part of Donegal.
Although Fithian was the first "orderly" preacher assigned to the West Branch, the Donegal Presbytery had received an application from "setlers upon the W.
Pennington is a member of the presbytery of New York; and within the last six months he has been chosen moderator of that presbytery.
Behold how that fire hath destroyed the presbyteryand at the same time hath consumed him who lay therein.
Those of the inhabitants who had not fled were engaged in the obsequies of the hermit who had been burned when the presbytery took fire, and whose charred remains had been extricated from the ruins.
Although thepresbytery was lacking in beauty, of outline and detail, it was convenient as a dwelling.
When they come to-morrow they will find the presbytery destroyed by fire, and we will say that the Archpriest has perished in it.
To judge from the borough records of the former city,[37] the prevalency of the habit was a source of great scandal to the presbytery of that town.
A few years later the presbytery went further than even the magistracy had already done.
It was the Assembly itself which consented to curtail the liberty of preaching and the liberty of assembling in presbytery and synod, as well as to make the king's consent needful for the appointment of every minister.
The bishops were owned as permanent heads of each provincial synod; the power of ordination was committed to them; the ecclesiastical sentences pronounced by synod or presbytery were henceforth to be submitted for their approval.
The Presbytery ruled, "that the use of organs in the public worship of God is contrary to the law of the land, and to the law and constitution of our Established Church.
The act was clamorously opposed outside his own following, and the Relief Presbytery called upon the minister, John Johnston, to remove the offending instrument, under pain of deprivation.
But Presbytery gave little countenance to such a hand-maid.
In 1731, an irregular marriage came before the Presbytery of Ayr.
The Presbytery was convened, and the Lord Provost appeared before that grave body, at the head of a deputation of influential citizens, to protest against the minister's innovation on long established custom.
In 1650 the Presbytery of Biggar called on the Presbytery of Haddington, as well as the civil power, to secure Cathie's services whenever they were required.
In 1689, one John Meikle was cited to appear before the Presbytery of Ayr, to show cause why he forbade the banns of Janet Campbell.
The Presbytery pronounced them guilty of incest, prohibited them from cohabitation, and the interdict being disregarded, passed sentence of excommunication.
These charges were considered sufficient by the Presbytery of Kincardine, and were duly signed by "Mr Jhone Ros, Minister at Lumphanan.
And in fact the door of the presbytery grated; Abbe Bournisien appeared; the children, pell-mell, fled into the church.
He had come for his umbrella, that he had forgotten the other day at the Ernemont convent, and after asking Madame Lefrancois to have it sent to him at the presbytery in the evening, he left for the church, from which the Angelus was ringing.
The second presbytery of Philadelphia was also exscinded by that Assembly.
In November 1844 be applied to the Edinburgh Presbytery of the Secession Church for license, and he received it at their hands in the following February.
The Hall session of 1844 was Cairns's last, and the next step for him to take in ordinary course was to apply to a Presbytery for license as a probationer.
During the remaining ten months of each year the student, except that he had to prepare a certain number of exercises for the Presbytery which had him under its charge, was left very much to do as he pleased.
He was one of those who brought this project before the Synod of the United Presbyterian Church in May 1863, when he appeared in support of an overture from the Berwick Presbytery in favour of Union.
The marquis refused, on which thePresbytery of Edinburgh cited them.
If that is what you be at, then I tell you that a Scottish presbytery agreeth with monarchy as well as God with the Devil.
Beyond thepresbytery extended the provincial synod, and the General Assembly claimed the supreme management of the affairs of the Church under God.
No bishop no king," was his favourite motto; and the hatred of presbytery which he expressed at Hampton Court led him to seek its utter overthrow in Scotland.
Presbytery met in town that year, and all the big preachers in the state was there.
I was summoned before the Presbytery for my conduct in attending the play, but was exonerated by the General Assembly.
He was educated at Edinburgh University, and was licensed as a clergyman of the Church of Scotland by the Presbytery of Edinburgh.
Presbytery Examined: an Essay on the Ecclesiastical History of Scotland since the Reformation, by the late Duke of Argyll; and the various books on Scottish Church history.
Not only the General Assembly, but the Synod or the Presbytery or the Kirk Session, was a court of justice.
A Presbytery never died: its members might change, but it continued its work, calmly and relentlessly, "grinding exceeding small.
In 1594, King James asked the presbytery of Edinburgh to "procure the leveing of six hundreth footmen, and four hundreth horsemen" to suppress a rebellion; and the presbytery complied with his request.
It fell eastward, damaging the presbytery so badly that the clerestory had to be rebuilt.
The spire, we know, was again overtaken by misfortune in 1463, when it was struck by lightning, and again falling eastward, went through the presbytery roof.
The battlementing to the presbytery also was added at the same time as the flying buttresses.
In Dean Goulburn's time the floor of the presbytery was raised by two steps, which occurred one bay past the tower arch eastward.
The level of thepresbytery floor has been brought forward to the tower arch, and at the same time the floors of both transepts and choir were brought to one level, and various obstructions in the way of pews and raised floors removed.
Illustration: Detail of the Presbytery Clerestory and Vaulting.
The presbytery was filled with stalls, which have been lately removed, and in part refixed in the nave.
It may be as well here to give a brief sketch of the various re-modellings which have been effected in the arrangement of the choir and presbytery of the cathedral.
At the yearly examination of the school-room by the Presbyteryand Maister Wiggie, he aye sat at the head of the form, and never failed getting a clap on the head and a wheen carvies.
He died 1565, and the Arch-Presbytery expired with him.
In a short time afterward he commenced the study of Theology under the care of the Presbytery of South Carolina, and was licensed to preach in October, 1789.
In the spring of 1776 he was licensed by the Presbytery of Orange to preach the Gospel of everlasting Peace.
He was licensed a preacher of the everlasting gospel, of the Presbytery of Donegal in 1766, and rested from his labors A.
Bell, Presbytery Clerk), placed on the same footing as the ministers of the Kirk.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "presbytery" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
