The Case of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Before the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Impartially Reported by Disinterested Stenographers: Including All the Proceedings, Testimony, and the Arguments at Nisi Prius, and Before the Court in Bank, with the Charge of Judge Rogers, the Verdict of the Jury, and the Opinion of Chief Justice GibsonTrial involved "the question at issue of whether the respondents in this case are entitled to hold their office of Trustees of the General Asembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America. The secondary issue is whether that body which elected these relators was truly the General Assambly of the Presbyterian Church..." : p. 268. Concerns the church's split into old school and new school. |
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... Plan of Union ( 1801 , ) 77 - Ab- rogation , Plans of Union and Correspon- dence , & c . , Pleadings , Plumer , Wm . , D. D. , testimony of , Potts , Stacy G. , testimony of , Presbytery , how formed , & c . , Preston , Mr. , argument ...
... Plan of Union ( 1801 , ) 77 - Ab- rogation , Plans of Union and Correspon- dence , & c . , Pleadings , Plumer , Wm . , D. D. , testimony of , Potts , Stacy G. , testimony of , Presbytery , how formed , & c . , Preston , Mr. , argument ...
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... union , they agreed to adopt the Confession of Faith , Catechisms and ... plan of correspondence with the Congregational bodies of New England , which ... Plan of Union , which is the one so often alluded to in this trial , and is fully ...
... union , they agreed to adopt the Confession of Faith , Catechisms and ... plan of correspondence with the Congregational bodies of New England , which ... Plan of Union , which is the one so often alluded to in this trial , and is fully ...
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... plan of proceeding is circumstantially prescribed . There must always be an accusation of crime , witnesses and ... Union , entered into in the year 1801 , between the General As- sembly of the Presbyterian Church , and the General ...
... plan of proceeding is circumstantially prescribed . There must always be an accusation of crime , witnesses and ... Union , entered into in the year 1801 , between the General As- sembly of the Presbyterian Church , and the General ...
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... plan of fellowship , of the same character as that adopted with the General Association of New Hampshire , Ver- mont , Massachusetts , the Associate Reformed Church and Dutch Reformed Church , both before and after the Plan of Union in ...
... plan of fellowship , of the same character as that adopted with the General Association of New Hampshire , Ver- mont , Massachusetts , the Associate Reformed Church and Dutch Reformed Church , both before and after the Plan of Union in ...
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... Plan of Union , and then declared that this plan having been unconstitutional and void from the beginning , no rights had ever been acquired by it ; and therefore that the four synods , which were alleged to have been formed under its ...
... Plan of Union , and then declared that this plan having been unconstitutional and void from the beginning , no rights had ever been acquired by it ; and therefore that the four synods , which were alleged to have been formed under its ...
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Page 52 - THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America would proceed forthwith to the First Presbyterian Church.
Page 222 - Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.
Page 223 - He shall preserve order and decorum ; may speak to points of order in preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose ; and shall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the house by any two members, on which appeal no member shall speak more than once, unless by leave of the house.
Page 222 - For this cause we also, since the day we heard it. do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding...
Page 82 - Esq., a committee to cooperate with committees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, and the General Association of Connecticut, in...
Page 219 - Seminary, solemnly and sincerely receive and adopt the Westminster Confession of Faith, as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures.
Page 128 - I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 11 For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. 12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
Page 511 - And provided the said standing committee of any church shall depute one of themselves to attend the Presbytery, he may have the same right to sit and act in the Presbytery, as a ruling elder of the Presbyterian Church.
Page 156 - I. It is absolutely necessary that the government of the church be exercised under some certain and definite form : And we hold it to be expedient, and agreeable to scripture and the practice of the primitive Christians, that the church be governed by congregational, presbyterial and synodical assemblies.
Page 165 - Church consent to a further appeal to the Synod, or to the General Assembly, and in the latter case, if the party condemned shall wish for a trial by a mutual council, the cause shall be referred to such a council.