 | 1834 - 546 pages
...overtures or regulations proposed by the Assembly to be established as constitutional rules, shall be obligatory on the churches, it shall be necessary...Presbyteries, and to receive the returns of, at least, a major^y of them in writing approving thereof." This provision of our constitution was not attended... | |
 | United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1836 - 552 pages
...overtures or regulations proposed by the Assembly to be established as constitutional rules, shall be obligatory on the churches, it shall be necessary...and to receive the returns of at least a majority of them in writing, approving thereof." This was not done with the Plan; and the only question before... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Isaac Wharton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 648 pages
...overtures or regulations proposed by the assembly to be established as constitutional rules, shall be obligatory on the churches, it shall be necessary to transmit them to all the presbyteries, and receive the returns of at least a majority of them, in writing, approving thereof." Also the following... | |
 | Absalom Peters - 1837 - 202 pages
...overture or regulations proposed by the Assembly to be established as constitutional rules, shall be obligatory on the churches, it shall be necessary...and to receive the returns of at least a majority of them, in writing, approving thereof." The resolution proposed by Dr. Palmer, therefore, that this whole... | |
 | Zebulon Crocker - New England - 1838 - 326 pages
...overtures or regulations proposed by the Assembly to be established as constitutional rules, shall be obligatory on the churches, it shall be necessary...and to receive the returns of at least a majority of them, in writing, approving thereof." The question then arises, are the provisions of the Plan of Union,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 568 pages
...overtures or regulations proposed by the Assembly to be established as constitutional rules, shall be obligatory on the churches, it shall be necessary...and to receive the returns of at least a majority of them, in writing, approving thereof. VII. The General Assembly shall meet at least once in every year.... | |
 | Samuel Miller, Pennsylvania. Supreme Court - Church polity - 1839 - 606 pages
...or regulations proposed by the General Assembly to be established as constitutional rules, shall be obligatory on the churches, it shall be necessary...and to receive the returns of at least a majority of them, approving thereof. Nor is it, in the opinion of the Court, in conflict with the constitution,... | |
 | Oxford (Ohio) - 1839 - 438 pages
...proposed by the General Assembly, to be established at constitutional rules, shall be obligatory upon the cHURcHES — it shall be necessary to transmit...all THE PRESBYTERIES, and to receive the returns of a majority of them in writing, approving thereof." (Conf. p. 365.) Have not the Assemblies of 1837... | |
 | James Todd, Ashbel Green - Presbyterian Church - 1839 - 636 pages
...overtures or regulations proposed by the Assembly to be established as constitutional rules shall be obligatory on the churches, it shall be necessary...transmit them to all the presbyteries, and to receive the return of at least a majority of them in writing, approving thereof." Form of Government, cap. xii.... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...overtures or regulations proposed by the Assembly to be established as constitutional rules, shall be obligatory on the churches, it shall be necessary...and to receive the returns of at least a majority of them, in writing, approving thereof." Form of Gov. ch. xii. sect. 6. This must decide the case, unless... | |
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Before any overtures, or regulations, proposed by the assembly to be established as constitutional rules, shall be obligatory on the churches, it shall be necessary to transmit them to all the presbyteries, and to receive the returns of at least a majority... 
