 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 974
...(Moore's Digest, 1886, p. 139). Adopted.— 1895, p. 102. " CHAPTER V. OF RULING ELDERS. Ruling Elders are properly the representatives of the people, chosen...discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers. This office has been understood, by a great part of the Protestant Reformed Churches, to be designated... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...their weleome and affectionate regard. THE ORDER FOR THE ORDINATION OF RULING ELDERS. U Ruling Elders are properly the representatives of the people, chosen...discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers (Form of Government, Chap. v). When any person shall have been elected to the office of Ruling Elder,... | |
 | 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 178
...church, ambassador, and steward of the mysteries of God. Second — RULING ELDERS. Ruling elders are representatives of the people, chosen by them for the purpose of exercising government or discipline in conjunction with pastors or ministers. They not only have authority to receive members,... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...common title of "ruling elders" yet fully and advisedly define and characterize these officers as being "properly the representatives of the people, chosen...discipline in conjunction with pastors or ministers. This office," it is added, "has been understood by a great part of the Protestant Reformed churches... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 620
...persons, in subordination to the laws of the church. 'Hence,' says our Form of Government, 'ruling elders are properly the representatives of the people, chosen...purpose of exercising government and discipline.'^ As to the necessity for some such officers, who, that reflects, can doubt. Does the church, we ask,... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 618
...persons, in subordination to the laws of the church. 'Hence,' says our Form of Government, 'ruling elders are properly the representatives of the people, chosen...them for the purpose of exercising government and discipline.'J As to the necessity for some such officers, who, that reflects, can doubt. Does the church,... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...well, it teaches that elders were commonly so called ruling elders by the reformers, because they are representatives of the people, chosen by them for the purpose of exercising government (or rule) and discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers. CALVIN AND THE NEW THEORY. That... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...well, it teaches that elders were commonly so called ruling elders by the reformers, because they are representatives of the people, chosen by them for the purpose of exercising government (or rule) and discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers. CALVIN AND THE NEW THEORY. That... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly, Benjamin Franklin Bittinger - 1913 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...Commission.—MGA, 1907, p. 449-b. XLV. For Rule 45, see Sec. 1254. 803 Ruling Elders.—Ruling elders are properly the representatives of the people, chosen...government and discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers.—FG, chap. v. 804 Every congregation shall elect persons to the office of ruling elder... | |
 | Charles Zebina Lincoln - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 1016
...agreeably to the Holy Scriptures, and submitting to a certain form of government." Ruling elders are representatives of the people, chosen by them for...exercising government and discipline in conjunction with the pastors or ministers. The pastor and ruling elders compose what is called the church session. This... | |
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RULING elders are properly the representatives of the people, chosen by them for the purpose of exercising government and discipline, in conjunction with pastors or ministers. This office has been understood, by a great part of the Protestant Reformed... 
