Author: Samuel RutherfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church polity
Languages : en
Pages : 807
Book Description
The Due Right of Presbyteries
Author: Samuel RutherfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church polity
Languages : en
Pages : 807
Book Description
The Book of Church Order
Author: Presbyterian Church in the U.S. General AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780804239042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Letters of Samuel Rutherford
Author: Samuel RutherfordPublisher: Fig
ISBN: 1623140056
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
An Essay on the Warrant, Nature, and Duties of the Office of the Ruling Elder, in the Presbyterian Church
Author: Samuel MillerPublisher:
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Category : Elders (Church officers)
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Westminster Confession of Faith and the Cessation of Special Revelation
Author: Garnet Howard MilnePublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1556358059
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
In the opening chapter of the Confession, the divines of Westminster included a clause that implied that there would no longer be any special immediate revelation from God. Means by which God had once communicated the divine will, such as dreams, visions, and the miraculous gifts of the Spirit, were said to be no longer available. However, many of the authors of the WCF accepted that prophecy continued in their time, and a number of them apparently believed that disclosure of God's will through dreams, visions, and angelic communication remained possible. How is the cessationist clause of WCF 1:1 to be read in the light of these claims? This book reconciles this paradox in a detailed study of the writings of the authors of the Westminster Confession of Faith.
The New England Way
Author: John CottonPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Legal Resource Manual
Author: Scots Confession
Author: John KnoxPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522865865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
"Scots Confession" from John Knox. Scottish religious reformer who played the lead part in reforming the Church in Scotland in a Presbyterian manner (1510-1572).
Presbytery and Not Prelacy
Author: Thomas SmythPublisher:
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Category : Presbyterian Church
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Lex, Rex, Or the Law and the Prince
Author: Samuel RutherfordPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781986531238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Reverend Samuel Rutherford wrote Lex, Rex to defend and advance the Presbytarian ideals in government and political life, and oppose the notion of a monarch's Divine Right to rule. Writing in the 1640s, Rutherford lived in a time of political tumult and upheaval. The notion of Divine Right - whether a monarch ruled with the authority of God - was under increasing question. The steadily waning power of the monarch, increasing rates of literacy and education, and enfranchisement of classes that followed the Renaissance bore fruit in demands for governmental reform. No greater were these trends felt than in England, whose Parliament had over centuries gained power. Shaken to its foundations by the aftermath of religious Reformation in the 1500s, the authority of the monarch was under great scrutiny. The follies of absolute power, whereby one ruler had capacity to take decisions affecting the lives of millions, were now an active source of agitation and discontentment in both the halls of power and amid the wider populace. The luxuries and excesses of King Charles I, and the resultant taxes, were likewise cause for agitation. Lex, Rex would prove a forerunner to the Enlightenment era theories of democratic government and the notion of a government for the people. It demolishes the notion of divine right by referring to the actual tenets of the Biblical Old Testament. Most poignantly of all, Rutherford proposes a series of radical reforms such as the establishment of a Constitution, and the delegation of rights to the population to rule themselves; a measure foretelling 'small government' philosophies that followed. The book is organized into forty-four questions, each of whom considers and answers common arguments of the author's fractious era. Rutherford's ideas were in direct contravention to the monarchic societies in Europe at the time. They undoubtedly gave the Parliamentarian movement, and educated Republicans in general, a sound scholarly ground with which to begin the English Civil War and enact long-lasting reforms. The questions answered in Lex, Rex - persuasively, convincingly and explosively as they were - would lead England on the road to enshrining its own Parliamentary democracy.