| Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1863 - 408 страница
...itself in the soil of the New Testament, namely : " Let the Elders that rule well, be 1 " Ruling Elders are properly the representatives of the people, chosen...discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers. This office has been understood, by a great part of the Protestant Reformed Churches, to be designated... | |
| Henry Martyn Dexter - 1865 - 352 страница
...this office roots itself in the soil of the New Testament, namely : 1 " Ruling Eldera are properly tho representatives of the people, chosen by them for...discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers. This office hae been understood, by a great part of the Protestant Reformed Churches, to be designated... | |
| Jesse Truesdell Peck - 1868 - 774 страница
...right of appeal for the maintenance of religious liberty and justice. ' Ruling elders are properly representatives of the people, chosen by them for...purpose of exercising government and discipline in connection with pastors and ministers.' The great republican principles of our National Constitution... | |
| Henry Martyn Dexter - 1871 - 426 страница
...is claimed that this office roots itself in the soil of the New Testament, namely: 1 u Ruling Elders are properly the representatives of the people, chosen...discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers. This office has been understood, by a great part of the Protestant Reformed Churches, to be designated... | |
| Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 страница
...teaches that, in all other cases, the exercise of it is to be continued. "Ruling elders," we read, " are properly the representatives of the people chosen...discipline in conjunction with pastors or ministers." What words could express more decidedly than these that the characteristic work of the elder is to... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1860 - 868 страница
...representatives of the people (ch. iii.);" or, as it is more fully given in chapter v., "Ruling elders are properly the representatives of the people, chosen...discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers." Such is the definition. The description, as given in ch. iii. is, that they are those officers who... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1873 - 734 страница
...to the pastoral office. Also Chap, x., sec. viii.] CHAPTER V. OF RULING ELDERS. RULING ELDERS sire properly the representatives of the people, -chosen...discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers. This office has been understood, by a great part of the Protestant Reformed Churches, to be designated... | |
| 1873 - 826 страница
...ministers in governing the church. It asserts that, " Ruling elders are properly the representatices of the people, chosen by them for the purpose of exercising...government and discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers."i This theory has lately been put forward in this country by Principal Campbell of Aberdeen,... | |
| Charles Seymour Robinson - 1873 - 440 страница
...i FLDER8. К ti LINO elders are properly the representativos of tho people, chosen by them for tho purpose of exercising government and discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers. This оШсо has been understood, by u «reat part of tho Protestin t líeformed Churches, to bo designated,... | |
| Henry Martyn Dexter - 1874 - 448 страница
...claimed that this office roots itself in the soil of the New Testament, namely : 1 " Iluling Elders are properly the representatives of the people, chosen by them for the pnrpose of exercising ¡rovernment anil discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers. Thij... | |
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