Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Proceedings of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 1842
I. Christ the Head of his body the Church - None may inter fere between the head and the members - Christ the only King and Lawgiver of his Church - No appeal in matters spiritual or ecclesiastical to any civil tribunal upon earth - All encroachment upon this jurisdiction to be protested against and resisted to the uttermost. - No possibility of compromise or concession on this point; (see Claim of Rights, Protests against the Civil Interdicts, Refusals to go into Court upon Spiritual Matters, Different Deci sions pronounced in the face of Interdicts.) II. Laws of Christ's Church - These distinct from and beyond the control of civil laws - NO human-judge may abrogate, alter, or interfere with them - Not founded upon expediency, but on 'the word of god.-by these laws all courts ecclesiastical entirely regulated. - Erastianism condemned. (see Cases of Discipline Cambusnethan - Stranraer.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
