An Abridgment Of The Acts Of The General Assemblies Of The Church Of Scotland

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Excerpt from An Abridgment of the Acts of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland: From 1560 to 1830 Inclusive Mr. Dundas's Abridgment embraced only the acts of the Assemblies from the restoration of Presbytery in 1638 to 17 20. But one of the first acts of the celebrated Assembly of Glasgow (28th November 1638) was to ascertain and declare the authenticity of the registers of the Church from the year 1560 to 1590 and of the various acts of the Church during that early period of its history, no trace is to be found in the abridgments now referred to. Although these embrace the first of our ecclesiastical statutes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from An Abridgment of the Acts of the General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, From the Year 1638 to 1820 Inclusive: To Which Is Subjoined an Appendix, Containing an Abridged View of the Civil Law Relating to the Church Besides inserting the procedure respecting church censures, under the various heads where they natu rally occur, the Form of Process is also, from its high importance, given at large at the end of the Assembly's Acts. An Appendix is subjoined which chiefly consti tutes the superiority of the present edition to that of 1801 The former Appendix consisted only of a collection of the acts of parliament, relating to the church; but the present contains the existing state of the civil law applicable to the church, and em. Braces all the decisions of the supreme civil court, with the opinions of the ablest commentators, on every subject on which a minister may require infer mation. The author has particularly enlarged upon the present situation of the law of augmentation, with the mode of conducting the actions respecting them; and those cases in which presbyteries act in a civil capacity respecting man ses, glebes, churches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.