Elder-Moderatorship: A Discussion of the Elder-Moderator Overtures (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Elias Riggs Monfort

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331809762 ISBN 13 : 9781331809760

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This discussion grew out of declarations of Dr. Gray in answer to articles by Rev. Drs. Patterson and Kitchie, as well as the editors of the Herald and Presbyter, defying us to meet him in the discussion of the Elder-M oderator Overtures on Scripture ground. After six articles had been published, it was agreed that the propositions to be discussed should be :I. Ruling elders and ministers are not of the same scriptural order, though they have some functions in common. II. It is inexpedient to adopt the overtures now before the Church concerning the eligibility of ruling elders to the moderatorship. I agreed to discuss the scriptural questions involved, although the A ssembly, in submitting the overtures, did not intend any investigation or change of the Bible basis of our church polity. In defending our system, I have tried to show that Jesus Christ, the antitype of prophets, priests and kings of the Jewish Church, became, when on earth, the visible Head of the Church, claiming all power in heaven and on earth; appointed his apostles, the first presbytery, to be his representatives and witnesses, and sent them to preach and dispense the sacraments and ordination; they first chose a successor to Judas, to take part with them in this ministry and apostleship, and then began to preach and dispense boly ordinances; that they soon ordained Paul as an apostle and a preacher, and with him, Barnabas as a minister; that Timothy, Titus, and others, were ordained ministers by the laying on of the hands of the presbytery; that ministers were preachers and rulers in unity of office, exercising rulership in the churches where they were pastors, and general rulership over all the churches, in virtue of their presbyterial ordination, authority and membership; that they and the churches they planted were the visible Church superseding the Jewish economy and administration, w
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331809762
• ISBN 13: 9781331809760
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 54
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