| George Gould - Church and state - 1862 - 538 pages
...authority in such things as being merely circumstantial, are common to human actions and societies, and are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed. And as to divers ceremonies formerly retained... | |
| Sir James Fitzjames Stephen - Trials (Heresy) - 1862 - 392 pages
...God to be necessary for the " understanding of such things as are revealed in the " word, and that there are some circumstances concerning " the worship of God and government of the church com" mon to human actions and societies, which are to be " ordered by the light of nature and Christian... | |
| William Cunningham - Church - 1863 - 582 pages
...Confession, 1560, ch. xx. t Calderwood, p. 25 of old printed edit, in folio. Confession, — namely, "That there are some circumstances concerning the worship...of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the word, which are always to be observed."* Common sense requires this limitation,... | |
| Robert Lee - Church music - 1864 - 238 pages
...expediency, good order, decency, and edification, according to the dictum of the Westminster Confession, " There are some circumstances concerning the worship...human actions and societies, which are to be ordered according to the light of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word,... | |
| Joseph M. Wilson - Presbyterian Church - 1868 - 436 pages
...them, for God hath showed it unto them (Rom. i. 19), so that they are without excuse. (Rom. i. 19.) " Some circumstances concerning the worship of God and...of the Church common to human actions and societies are to be ordered by the light of nature." (Conf. i. 6.) "Infidelity or difference in religion doth... | |
| Theology - 1865 - 912 pages
...the Confession of Faith, I believe " that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God, which are to be ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence." And just as a dear friend of my own, who had hardly ever sung anything but a Hebrew Psalm, or rather... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S. General Assembly - 1866 - 500 pages
...them, for God hath showed it unto them, (Horn. 1 : 19;) so that they are without excuse." (Rom. 1:20.) "Some circumstances concerning the worship of God...the Church, common to human actions and societies, are to be ordered by the light of nature." (Conf. ] : 6.) " Infidelity or difference in religion doth... | |
| Joseph M. Wilson - Presbyterian Church - 1868 - 426 pages
...by the law of Christ. Since, according to our Standards, even though "there are some cireimistances concerning the worship of God and government of the...ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence ; ' ' yet even these ' ' must be ordered according to the general rules of the word, which arc always... | |
| Edwin Clennell Leaton BLENKINSOPP - Theology, Doctrinal - 1869 - 388 pages
...God to be necessary for the saving understanding of such things as are revealed in the Word, and that there are some circumstances concerning the worship...of nature and Christian prudence, according to the general rules of the Word, which are always to be observed." Again : — " The Supreme Judge, by which... | |
| 1869 - 436 pages
...Confession of Faith teaches "that there are some circumstances concerning the worship of God and the government of the church, common to human actions...ordered by the light of nature and Christian prudence." But the practice in question is not a circumstance.. It is an institution, and so viewed by those bodies... | |
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