 | Hiram Van Kirk - 1907 - Страниц: 152
...reformation in earnest. His supporters met at Edinburgh (1557) and took the old feudal oath of man-rent "to maintain, set forward and establish the most blessed Word of God and His congregation." This was the first of the Covenants, from which the reforming party were called the "Congregation"... | |
 | Charles Sumner Lobingier - 1909 - Страниц: 466
...gathered at Edinburgh and signed what is known in history as the First Covenant.2 By it they agree "to maintain, set forward and establish the most blessed Word of God and His Congregation . . . forsake and renounce the Congregation of Satan with all the superstitious abomination and idolatry... | |
 | David Hay Fleming - 1910 - Страниц: 742
...that by His grace they shall with all diligence continually apply their whole power, substance and very lives, to maintain, set forward, and establish...most blessed Word of God and His congregation ; and labour to have faithful ministers ; and maintain and defend them, and the whole congregation of Christ,... | |
 | Williston Walker - 1908 - Страниц: 402
...Scotland. On December 3, 1557, its leaders drafted at Edinburgh the first Scottish "Covenant," agreeing "to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed Word of God and His congregation," from which they soon obtained the nickname of the " Lords of the Congregation." The political situation... | |
 | Albert Henry Currier - 1915 - Страниц: 340
...majesty of God," the Covenant says, "that we by His grace shall with all diligence apply our whole power, substance and our very lives to maintain, set forward,...blessed Word of God and His Congregation ; and shall labor at our possibility to have faithful ministers purely and truly to minister Christ's Evangel and... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - 1917 - Страниц: 368
...'we, by his grace, shall, with all diligence, continually apply our whole power, substance, and our lives to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed word of God.'. At Perth, in, 1559, they entered into covenant ' to put away all things that dishonor his name that... | |
 | Ninian Hill - 1919 - Страниц: 308
...His Congregation, That we, by His Grace, shall with all diligence continually apply our whole power, substance, and our very lives, to maintain, set forward,...Word of God, and His Congregation ; and shall labour at our possibility to have faithful Ministers, purely and truely to minister Christ's Evangel and Sacraments... | |
 | Preserved Smith - 1920 - Страниц: 894
...headed by the earls of Argyle, Glencairn and Morton, promised to apply their whole power, substance and lives to maintain, set forward and establish "the most blessed Word of God and his congregation." Under the protection of this bond, reformed churches were set up openly. The Lords of the Congregation,... | |
 | Charles Sanford Terry - 1920 - Страниц: 766
...was accelerated. In December 1557 the first Covenant was signed, a' band' pledging its signatories ' to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed word of God' and to labour for the institution and support of ' faithful ministers purely and truly to minister Christ's... | |
 | Charles Sanford Terry - 1921 - Страниц: 302
...movement, its progress was rapid. In December 1557 the first Covenant was signed, pledging its signatories 'to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed word of God.' The 'Congregation of Jesus Christ,' or 'Lords of the Congregation,' as the new organization came to... | |
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The which our duty being well considered, we do promise, before the majesty of God and His Congregation, that we (by His grace) shall with all diligence continually apply our whole power, substance, and our very lives, to maintain, set forward, and establish... 
