| Hannah Adams - Religions - 1805 - 514 pages
...Holland. They derive their name from their maintaining that every particular congregation of christions has an entire and complete power of jurisdiction over its members, to be exercised by the elders of each church within itself, without being subject to the authority of bishops, synods, presbyteries,... | |
| John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...dissenting brethren, and with great ability and boldness contended for the scheme of independency, viz. "that every particular congregation of Christians has an entire and complete power of juris diction over its members, to be exercised by the elders thereof within itself." This party, though... | |
| Daniel Neal, Edward Parsons - Dissenters, Religious - 1811 - 802 pages
...churches. °5 T'' t The scheme they embraced was a middle way between Brownism and presbytery, (viz.) THAT EVERY PARTICULAR CONGREGATION OF CHRISTIANS HAS...BE EXERCISED BY THE ELDERS THEREOF WITHIN ITSELF. This they are sure must have been the form of government in the primitive church, before the numbers... | |
| Hannah Adams - Religion - 1817 - 392 pages
...protestants in England and Holland, originally called Brawnists. They derive their name from maintaining that every particular congregation of Christians has...jurisdiction over its members to be exercised by the elders of each church within itself; independent of the authority of bishops, synods, presbyteries, or any... | |
| Hannah Adams - Religion - 1817 - 390 pages
...scripture, every church ought to be confined within the limits of a single congregation, and have the complete power of jurisdiction over its members, to be exercised by the elders within itself, without being subject to the authority of bishops, synods, presbyteries, or any ecclesiastical... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 376 pages
...scripture, every church ought to be confined within the limits of a single congregation, and have the complete power of jurisdiction over its members, to be exercised by -the elders within itself, without being subject to the authority of bishops, synods, presbyteries, or any ecclesiastical... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 370 pages
...scripture, every church ought to be confined within the limits of a single congregation, and have the complete power of jurisdiction over its members, to be exercised by the elders within itself, without being subject to the authority of bishops, synods, presbyteries, or any ecclesiastical... | |
| Oliver Cromwell - History - 1821 - 668 pages
...that every particular congregation of Christians had an entire and complete power of j udrisdiction over its members, to be exercised by the elders thereof within itself: that this they were sure must have been the form of government in the primitive church, before the... | |
| Benjamin Allen - Church history - 1824 - 492 pages
...room for alteration upon any further views and inquiry. On these principles they built a system, " that every particular congregation of Christians has...be exercised by the elders thereof within itself." But they did not claim such an entire independency with regard to other churches, as that an offending... | |
| Congregationalism - 1824 - 744 pages
...modifications, by most who have borne the name, down to the present day. The apologists maintain, that " every congregation of Christians has an entire and complete...be exercised by the elders thereof within itself," — at the same time insisting on the duty of maintaining communion with other churches, and giving... | |
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