From time to time general synods with legislative power were summoned.
Annual provincialsynods have the initiative in calling in, when necessary for legislative purposes, the aid of the general synod.
The Rhenish and Westphalian synodsbewailed the offence given by Bender’s address, and protested against its hard and unfounded attacks upon the confessional writings.
At all these synods the lay members had persistently repeated the proposal to abolish the obligatory celibacy of the clergy.
Several French synods condemned this doctrine, and affirmed an immediate as well as a mediate operation of the Spirit and providence.
In the retirement of his later years he wrote a history of the church synods of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, which gave great offence to the ultramontanes.
He confirmed the Bishop of Carthage in his metropolitan dignity; he restored sees, allowed synods to meet, gave special privileges to the clergy.
The synodsof Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan have united to form a general synod and possess several institutions for the education of pastors and teachers.
At present this is composed of the synods of Missouri, of Wisconsin, of Minnesota, of Michigan, and of the English Evangelical-Lutheran Synod of Missouri and other States.
All these synods are indefatigable in the work of mission and in the preservation of the pure doctrine.
This teaching was confirmed by several provincial synods in France and Germany, as well as by many of the universities.
Footnote 1141: The synods were not the first means taken by the insulated churches to enter into communion and to assume a corporate character.
But these synods were not subject to any regular form or periodical return; this regularity was first established with the provincial synods, which were formed by a union of the bishops of a district, subject to a metropolitan.
The provincial synods did not commence till towards the middle of the third century, and were not the first synods.
The institution of synods was so well suited to private ambition, and to public interest, that in the space of a few years it was received throughout the whole empire.
We have seen that the audiencia labored in the interests of the royal authority when it passed on the acts of provincial synods and councils, and it inspected bulls and briefs before they were allowed to become operative in the colony.
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The meeting of the synods was very difficult, partly because of the suspicions of the government, and partly from the unwillingness of the communes to bear the expense connected therewith.
Again, the synods themselves answered but imperfectly to the design of their institution, and their influence on the spiritual state of the church very small.
Apparently diocesan synods may still enact valid canons without the king's authority; but these bodies are not now called.
In the West Indies, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, provincial and diocesan synods or conventions have been formed on one or other of the types above mentioned and have enacted canons.
The particular constitutions of English synods are numerous and cover a large field.
The addition of houses of priests to the provincial synods seems peculiar to England and Ireland.
The enlarged district synods are an additional safeguard for the privileges of the people.
The committee appointed to consider the matter having done its work, the report was submitted to the districtsynods and then to Conference.
Of those who had been active in bringing back the King, many were zealous for Synods and for the Directory, and many were desirous to terminate by a compromise the religious dissensions which had long agitated England.
For nearly a century the Moravians in America had felt as uncomfortable as David in Saul's armour; and the armour in this particular instance was made of certain iron rules forged at the General Synods held in Germany.
For forty-eight years their Provincial Synods had been attended by ministers only; but now by special permission of the U.
Provinces, elected by the Synods of these Provinces.
For thirty years the Brethren had been content to hold Provincial Synods every four or five years {1890.
It is true that so-called "Provincial Synods" were held; but these Synods had no power to make laws.
Of all the Provincial Synods held in England the most important in many ways was that which met at Ockbrook a few months after the publication of this pamphlet.
There all General Synods were held; there lay all supreme administrative and legislative power.
It is ruled by committees, conferences and synods; and these committees, conferences and synods all consist, to a large extent, of elected deputies.
They appointed ministers to their several posts; they summoned Provincial Synods when they thought needful; and thus each Province possessed Home Rule in all local affairs.
Probably the Lithuanian Jews were represented at a later period, and the synods were called the Synodsof the Four Countries (Vaad Arba Arazoth).
The synods also exercised a literary censorship by granting permission for certain books to be printed and sold, and refusing it in the case of others which seemed to them harmful.
Mordecai Jafa may very possibly have gained from this the idea of transforming these chance synods into regular conferences and of drawing up rules for them.
The whole of the Brethren were governed ecclesiastically by a series of Synods corresponding to those in the Presbyterian Churches.
It encouraged the meeting of Synods all over its territories.
Syrian bishops held three large Synods in regard to him at Antioch, to which also many other famous bishops of the East were invited.
The decrees of Synods were communicated to distant churches by means of Synodal rescripts, and even in the 3rd century the claim was made in these, in accordance with Acts xv.
In the time of Cyprian, the presbyters and deacons took an active part in the Synods alongside of the bishops, and the people generally were not prevented from attending.
Several Synods found it necessary to forbid the absurdity of squeezing the consecrated elements into the lips of the dead or laying them in the coffin.
Hence instead of one, two synods assembled, the one in October at Anspach, the other in November at Baireuth.
But James went on to repeal the Act which had confiscated the episcopal estates, endowed the bishops, and made them moderators of both synods and presbyteries within their own districts.
But James, with the blind hardihood of a true Stuart, went on, and in 1606 appointed thirteen clergymen to the ancient abolished bishoprics, and gave them precedency in the synods and Assembly.
They were only carrying out strenuously the principles laid down under Gregory's guidance in many acts of synods and inculcated by Gregory in numberless private letters.
English and French Synods tried to insist on communion three times a year, but could not enforce the rule.
Some Protestant Synods had ventured to decide that the Pope was Antichrist; and this extravagance, gravely delivered by the Ministers, was regarded by the zealous Schismatics as a fundamental truth.
The rabbinical synods were not attended with that pomp which transformed such councils into theaters in which vanity and ambition are fostered.
The decisions of the rabbinical synods included not only religious and communal matters, but also questions of civil laws, as the Jews still possessed their own jurisdiction.
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