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Sentence Examples He supported the elders in their stance and together they established the first presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church. The Religious Society of Friends and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland declined to join. The temperance advocates got strong support from the Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist and Anglican churches. In previous years the house has served as a manse for the United Presbyterian Church. The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Presbyterian minister Matthew Peterson. I was brought up in a manse as a Presbyterian and I find Presbyterianism a comfortable jacket. Thirdly, his idea of Presbyterian church government avoided the hierarchical idea. However, written from a Presbyterian perspective, it would be difficult to fully implement within independency. There was difficulty in a number of places over sites for Presbyterian meeting houses. The Presbyterian merchant sought to follow ethical principles in all his business affairs and to make merchandising a public service. How does this history affect the way that the gospel message is shared by Presbyterian churches today? He has been the moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church since he founded it in 1951, a longer run in power than most popes. Intolerant of dissent, he wrote several pamphlets replying robustly to vindications of separatism by the Presbyterian Owen and the deist Dodwell. His was a strict Presbyterian Scottish background, and his father just browbeat him to get him to work so he'd get into university. Many came from Scotland where they had been ordained as Presbyterian ministers in the Scottish church. A number of Presbyterian ministers grew increasingly sceptical of the enduring value of revival. He was invited to speak in Belfast by Rev Ruth Patterson, the first woman ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church. He settled down and became the minister of the Salem Presbyterian Church, marrying Delilah Jane Cruise a short time later. In the meantime, many Presbyterian ministers have said they will continue to bless gay couples. The main talents were the three Caldwell brothers, sons of the Reverend James Caldwell, minister at the Presbyterian Church. Show More Sentences Guthrie also referred to another controversy, one stemming from remarks on pluralism by a Presbyterian minister and interfaith leader. This is a most refreshing new look at the book of Ecclesiastes, by the minister of Ravesby Presbyterian Church, Sydney. My father was a Presbyterian minister, which means we didn't have any money. Neu MacQueen is a Presbyterian minister and founder of Sunday Software Ministries. I have an uncle, for example, who is both theologically conservative and an elder in a mainline Presbyterian church. His father was a Presbyterian minister and, together with his mother, was devoted to the community. The Presbyterian Church is the largest Presbyterian denomination in the US, with around 2.5 million members. He is a physically imposing man, tall and big-boned, who looks as earnest and stern as a Presbyterian minister. Union between the Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches has been in a palpitant state of slow motion for six years. It is, he believes, an accelerating decline, even in conservative Presbyterian denominations. I suppose he had that Presbyterian character that hangs like a pall over Scotland. I have a sneaking hope that Wallace will order custard tart for pudding but this lunch is a Presbyterian affair. Fred, freshly ordained as a Presbyterian minister was about to start service as a patrolling padre for the Australian Inland Mission. Frustrated by her friend's dim-wittedness and by the community's obdurate Presbyterian mentality, she rushes to help. Leading fee-paying schools in Edinburgh, meanwhile, have a Presbyterian chaplain. Upwardly mobile Evangelicals used to mark their arrival in the local establishment by joining the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church. Participants in the ordination ceremony included Morrison's father, Steve, who is an elder at Pasadena Presbyterian Church. He's in the New York Presbyterian Hospital that is uptown on the upper west side called the Columbia. He was finally ordained as a Presbyterian minister after moving to Utica, New York, in 1822 to become principal of a school. In Book VII, Hooker defends episcopal organization as being superior to the Presbyterian structure favored by most Puritans. Show More Sentences He was ordained as a Lutheran minister in 1819 and later entered the Presbyterian ministry. He graduated in 1931 and pastored a small church in Covington, Georgia, before returning to preach at Atlanta's Westminster Presbyterian Church. His mood seems to have been one of stoic resignation, rather than despair, as reported by James Sharp, a leading Scots Presbyterian. With the help of a Creek student named James Perryman, Presbyterian minister John Fleming created a phonetic alphabet for Muskogee. In the last two years of his life, he became a Presbyterian, pastoring a church in Westchester, Pennsylvania. Two nice old dears are sitting in the foyer of Woburn Elderly Care, a rest home and hospital run by the Presbyterian Church. James was also a devout Presbyterian who saw his management system as an expression of his obligation to other human beings. His father intended him for the Presbyterian ministry and sent him to a dissenting academy, first at Gloucester and then at Tewkesbury. Sigrid accompanies the Bryan Chorale and serves as pianist at Hixson Presbyterian Church. The disintegration of Puritanism preceded any attempt to impose the Presbyterian system. The Presbyterian medical missionary had a reputation among French colonists as a ferocious Francophobe. His nine sermons were preached in Presbyterian, Congregational, and Baptist churches. The World Alliance of Reformed Churches consists of Congregational, Presbyterian, Reformed, and United churches. Let Us Pray consists of new prayers for public worship by twenty-nine pastors, predominantly Presbyterian. Although D' Ewes has been called a Presbyterian, his position in this treatise is more in line with the Independents. There are Presbyterians in bad Presbyterian churches, who have lost the message of the gospel. A leading layman in the Presbyterian Church, he held for years the post of honorary director of the Union Theological Seminary. In 1989 I was in Ireland doing a film, and in my spare time was a youth minister at the local Presbyterian church. The city's Presbyterian propriety and Calvinist self-denial combined to outlaw libidinousness as an affront to polite society. The rigorous self-discipline of the Presbyterian work ethic, however, did not grip the Kane household. Show More Sentences The priest has met other churchmen to discuss the impasse, including 12 Presbyterian ministers from the north of the city. William Tennent, therefore, established a small school for Presbyterian ministers in a log cabin on the farm he owned in Bucks County. The Uniting Church was formed in 1977, drawing membership from the Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational churches. After a few weeks of attending Methodist, Baptist, and Lutheran churches, her parents finally decided their new denomination was Presbyterian. Protestant groups include the United Church of Canada and the Anglican, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Lutheran churches. She has added an element of sophisticated glamour to his image of Presbyterian austerity. She starts kindergarten today at Riverside Presbyterian Day School. When they grow up and move to another town, they don't end up in Presbyterian churches but in Baptist or Charismatic ones, which feel familiar to them. One of the systemic realities of our Presbyterian polity is that we have moved issues from the local presbytery to the national body, the General Assembly. That continued when we moved to Minnesota, and I started as a lay volunteer with the church staff and elders at Christ Presbyterian, a very large Presbyterian church. Many of the Korean ethnic churches started during the first fifty years of the twentieth century were affiliated with the Methodist and Presbyterian denominations. That is to say, Milton at this time had notions that would have been deemed as heretical by the Calvinist theology of the ascendant Presbyterian Puritans. The American Presbyterian Church recently approved gay marriages. The mission of the Presbyterian Homes in the Presbytery of Lake Erie is to provide the best care for seniors and older adults in a nurturing, secure, home-like community. In the English dissenting churches and the Presbyterian churches of Scotland, which until the later 19th century had no organs, the precentor was an important official. Alan's concern was that as a Presbyterian clergyman he might not be permitted to preach in pulpits of the Church of England, but this was not a problem. He could see the Presbyterian Church's steeple over the low roofs of the office buildings and warehouses, and he could hear cars, so he knew where to go. The first-born son of strict Republican parents, one a nonpracticing Jew and the other an atheist who was raised Presbyterian, Tim gets top grades in the hardest classes. This fall I was in a large suburban Presbyterian church in Kansas City. As a result, a generation of young people has spent the past ten years looking for alternatives to the Presbyterian church, and many have ended up in Pentecostal churches. Show More Sentences In 1972 the Presbyterian church of England merged with most of the congregational unions to create the United Reform Church, but the decline in membership was not arrested. I can remember echoes of that Presbyterian morality in Scotland as late as the 1980's and think they probably exist still today in very diluted form. The country's first presbytery would be organized in Philadelphia and a later influx of Scotch-Irish would keep the state a Presbyterian stronghold. The grandson of a Scottish Presbyterian minister, Murdoch fancies himself something of a moralist. Josafa Vasconcelos, a Presbyterian pastor from Brazil, preached with unction in Portuguese, enjoying the benefit of not having to use an interpreter. The senior Taylor, an aggressive soulwinner, pastored the Queen Anne Hill United Presbyterian Church where the family resided in the parsonage next door. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and complementary medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. The unbending Presbyterian Scots, refusing to set foot in a pub, retaliated by building the stern little post office that still stands on the opposite corner. For that paternal love he hath for and towards the propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, agreeable to the Articles of the Kirk of Scotland in the Presbyterian Faith. In Scotland too, holy wells in remote places attracted the attentions of Presbyterian devotees, often despite the baleful stares of ordained Kirk ministers. The census also noted a reverse in the long-term decline in the Church of Ireland, Presbyterian and Methodist faiths, with sizeable increases witnesses across the board. He has been invited to train students for the Presbyterian ministry where heretofore they had been trained only for ministry in the Dutch Reformed Church. Last month the former moderator of the Presbyterian Church, went so far as to call for an end to the withdrawal by Protestants from mixed towns and areas. Now a museum, this house was built in 1859 as Presbyterian manse. That and incompetence at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital may have caused the deadly disease to spread. That same year, 1926, John Finley Williamson, music director at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Dayton, Ohio, began a choir school and named it for his church. Prior was brought up as a Methodist, but while he was a student he came to consider Methodistic theology too unsystematic, and he became a Presbyterian. His father, the brilliant Presbyterian theologian Francis Schaeffer, was the intellectual father of the movement. A similar struggle is under way in the Lutheran, Presbyterian and Methodist denominations. Dr. Gentry is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. Show More Sentences Priestley, a nonconformist Presbyterian minister, was supported in his scientific studies by the patronage of the Earl of Shelburne, in whose house Priestley was tutor. In Presbyterian denominations, the local church is ruled by elected elders, some of which are ministerial. Since 1689 it has had a Presbyterian system of church government, and enjoys independence from the state. The Presbyterian Church of Wales, which follows Calvinistic Methodism, is the largest denomination in Wales. The Church of South India was formed in 1947 by the union of Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Congregationalist and Presbyterian churches. Having little opportunity to replenish them, in May 1646 he sought shelter with a Presbyterian Scottish army at Southwell in Nottinghamshire. He put himself into the hands of the Scottish Presbyterian army besieging Newark, and was taken northwards to Newcastle upon Tyne. By the end of this period some Independent Puritans were again derisively using the term Roundhead to refer to the Presbyterian Puritans. The Scots forces were divided into royalist Engagers and Presbyterian Covenanters, who even fought each other. The outgoing Parliament defined the electoral qualifications so as to ensure, as they thought, the return of a Presbyterian majority. The Presbyterian members, excluded in Pride's Purge of 1648, were recalled, and on 24 December the army restored the Long Parliament. It was then applied to Scottish Presbyterian rebels who were against the King's Episcopalian order in Scotland. In Scotland the main Protestant body is the Church of Scotland which is Presbyterian. Thomas Bayes was the son of London Presbyterian minister Joshua Bayes, and was possibly born in Hertfordshire. Other contemporary denominations that contain high church wings include some Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Methodist churches. The Church of Bangladesh is the result of a merge of Anglican and Presbyterian churches. Cotton's writings persuaded the Calvinist theologian John Owen to separate from the Presbyterian church. The Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church, also uses a system of parish churches, covering the whole of Scotland. Most Presbyterian churches have an evening service on Maundy Thursday that includes the celebration of the Lord's Supper. The Presbyterian Church in Sudan is the third largest denomination in Southern Sudan. Show More Sentences Significant Protestant denominations are the Presbyterian Church and Methodist Church. Later on, Scotland became involved in the English Civil War when Charles I threatened the country's Presbyterian Church. The Presbyterian Church in Ireland and the Church of Scotland have been closely tied in the past. The Scottish colonists were mostly Presbyterian and the English mostly members of the Church of England. In 1607 Sir Randall MacDonnell settled 300 Presbyterian Scots families on his land in Antrim. The same was attempted in Ireland, where most Scots colonists were Presbyterian. The Scottish Presbyterian army sided with the King and the Laggan Army sided with the English Parliament. Maxwell was an evangelical Presbyterian and in his later years became an Elder of the Church of Scotland. Presbyterian church government was ensured in Scotland by the Acts of Union in 1707 which created the Kingdom of Great Britain. Some Presbyterian churches have entered into unions with other churches, such as Congregationalists, Lutherans, Anglicans, and Methodists. Presbyterian governance is practised by Presbyterian denominations and also by many other Reformed churches. It was enacted as law by the Scottish Parliament, and became one of the foundational documents of Presbyterian church legislation elsewhere. The Presbyterian Church of India is the result of this missionary activity. Some Presbyterian church buildings are often decorated with a cross that has a circle around the center, or Celtic cross. Some Presbyterian churches will also have ornate statues of Christ or Graven Scenes from the Last Supper located behind the Chancel. The Church was eventually organised by Andrew Melville along Presbyterian lines to become the national Church of Scotland. Within Scotland the term kirk is usually used to refer to a local Presbyterian church. By the 18th century many English Presbyterian congregations had become Unitarian in doctrine. A number of new Presbyterian Churches were founded by Scottish immigrants to England in the 19th century and later. Even before Presbyterianism spread with immigrants abroad from Scotland, there were divisions in the larger Presbyterian family. Show More Sentences Presbyterian influence, especially through Princeton theology can be traced in modern Evangelicalism. In the late 1800s, Presbyterian missionaries established a presence in what is now northern New Mexico. However, there are still stalwart Presbyterians and Presbyterian churches in the area. The Conservative Presbyterian Church was founded in 1940 and has eight presbyteries. There are probably more than four million members of Presbyterian churches in all of Latin America. Some Latin Americans in North America are active in the Presbyterian Cursillo Movement. Also the Southminster Presbyterian Church, located near Pittsburgh, has partnerships with churches in Malawi and Kenya. The Presbyterian Church of East Africa, based in Kenya, is particularly strong, with 500 clergy and 4 million members. Cumberland Presbyterian Church Yao Dao Secondary School is a Presbyterian school in Yuen Long, New Territories. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church also have a church on the island of Cheung Chau. Presbyterian churches were founded in each colony, some with links to the Church of Scotland and others to the Free Church. There were also congregations originating from United Presbyterian Church of Scotland as well as a number founded by John Dunmore Lang. A number of small Presbyterian denominations have arisen since the 1950s through migration or schism. The two churches merged in 1901, forming what is now the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand. There are some Presbyterian people, but no organised Presbyterian churches in Penama and Torba, both of which are traditionally Anglican. Vanuatu is the only country in the South Pacific with a significant Presbyterian heritage and membership. The Church of Scotland, a Presbyterian denomination often known as The Kirk, is recognised in law as the national church of Scotland. The Church of Scotland continues to foster relationships with other Presbyterian denominations in Scotland even where agreement is difficult. It is strongly associated with French, Dutch, Swiss and Scottish Reformation movements, and the Reformed and Presbyterian churches. Scottish and English law remained separate, as did the Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the Anglican Church of England. Show More Sentences The Presbyterian Church of East Africa has 3 million followers in Kenya and the surrounding countries. The result left the nation divided between a predominately Presbyterian Lowland and a predominately Episcopalian Highland region. In 1578 a Second Book of Discipline was adopted, which was much more clearly Presbyterian in outlook. In Geneva, he met John Calvin, from whom he gained experience and knowledge of Reformed theology and Presbyterian polity. In that regard, Knox is considered the notional founder of the Presbyterian denomination, whose members number millions worldwide. In North America Covenanters became known as members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. As a Presbyterian church, the Church of Scotland is governed by courts of elders rather than by bishops. That vision also affected the mainstream Presbyterian churches, and by the 1870s it had been assimilated by the established Church of Scotland. However some joined the United Presbyterian Church in calling for the Disestablishment of the Church of Scotland. However, the Free Presbyterian Church considers it a sin to use public transport to go to church on the Sabbath, while the Free Church does not. The individual churches of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland are each part of one of six Presbyteries. Calvinism is largely represented by Continental Reformed, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. In 1900 the Free Church of Scotland united with the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland to form the United Free Church of Scotland. There is a close relationship with the Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia. The Fourth Presbyterian Church is one of the largest Presbyterian congregations in the United States based on memberships. In 1928 it officially adopted the name Presbyterian Church in Wales but still retained the name Welsh Calvinistic Methodism with equal standing. In 1933 its constitution was modified as a result of the Presbyterian Church in Wales Act of Parliament in 1933, receiving Royal assent. The Presbyterian Church of Wales has around 24,000 members who worship in around 620 churches. The agreement guaranteed the permanent status of the Presbyterian church in Scotland, and the separate system of laws and courts in Scotland. The United Reformed Church resulted from the 1972 union of the Presbyterian Church of England and the Congregational Church in England and Wales. Show More Sentences In 1969 the International Presbyterian Church was founded in England with its first congregation in Ealing. In 1996 the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in England and Wales was established as a presbytery. The Presbyterian church traces its ancestry back primarily to England and Scotland. Over the last half a century it is much more common in Presbyterian churches to have Holy Communion monthly or on a weekly basis. The Moderator of the General Assembly in a Presbyterian church is similarly designated as a primus inter pares. The Presbyterian schools in particular later became the nucleus of the governmental system. Due to such migration, there was rapid growth in the number of Protestant churches, especially Methodist, Presbyterian and Baptist. In 1973 the Presbyterian Church in America attracted numerous conservative congregations. The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church has as its highest Church court the General Synod. The Independent Presbyterian Church in Brasil was founded in 1903 by pastor Pereira, has 500 congregations and 75 000 members. Since his paternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, Beck grew up influenced by church music and hymns. Dawson retired recently after thirty-three years as regional judicatory staff for the Presbyterian Church. The United Presbyterian Church of North America was a small denomination formed in 1858 from Scottish Covenanter and Seceder traditions. He is currently a member of the Rotary Club of Birmingham, the Monday Morning Quarterback Club and an officer at Independent Presbyterian Church. And when the toyful saints went marching through Presbyterian Valley Hospital on Sunday, parents and children beamed. Virginia Dean Hammett and Michael David Bowling were united in marriage on the evening of June 30, 2012, at First Presbyterian Church in Jackson. Howie is a humorlessly devout Scots Presbyterian, which makes him the brunt of much amusement among the more libertine villagers. Youngsters from Ely Presbyterian Primary School made drawings of jewelery and tools from the museum's Bronze Age collection, and made their own versions in clay. Vinson was one of the more than 70 medical personnel who were involved in the care of Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. Eritrean independent Pentecostal and Charismatic churches as well as Presbyterian, Assemblies of God and Methodist-linked churches are reported to be targeted. Show More Sentences Knox Presbyterian Church, Ottawa is an established congregation that values workship with strong preaching, quality music, education for all ages, and social action. The United Presbyterian Church in Brazil has around 4 000 members. On the charge of intent, the response argued that the readmission of the required phrases in 1662 were addressed more to the Presbyterian rather than the Roman controversy. In the Presbyterian system of church governance the synod is a level of administration between the local presbytery and the national general assembly. Various Congregational, Reformed, Reformed Baptists and Presbyterian churches, which look to Calvin as the chief expositor of their beliefs, have spread throughout the world. Congregationalist, Methodist and Presbyterian churches united in 1925 to form the United Church of Canada, and in 1977 to form the Uniting Church in Australia. It is in this region of Virginia that two future Presbyterian colleges trace their origins to lower level institutions founded in this time period. In 1618, King James had promulgated the Five Articles of Perth which were seen in Scotland as an attempt to encroach on their Presbyterian tradition. Other Protestant groups took a different attitude, with most Anabaptists, Quakers, Congregationalists and Presbyterian Puritans regarding such festivals as an abomination. The Calvinism of the reformers led by Knox resulted in a settlement that adopted a Presbyterian system and rejected most of the elaborate trappings of the Medieval church. The largest denominations, the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches, split over the slavery issue into regional organizations of the North and South. Some of us pure laine types are slow learners, but I would like to think most of us delight in the variety of people God has made and more specifically, has made Presbyterian. It remains a distinct Presbyterian denomination in Scotland. However, it lives on in small denominations such as the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States and as a minority position in other denominations. The first court of Presbyterian polity where the Elders of a particular congregation gather as a Session or meeting to govern the spiritual and temporal affairs of the church. Covenanters fleeing persecution had set up churches in Ireland and North America and several small denominations were founded, including the Reformed Presbyterian Church. Presbyterian denominations tracing their history to the Covenanters and often incorporating the name continue the ideas and traditions in Scotland and internationally. The story is told from the point of view of Henry Morton, a moderate Presbyterian, who is unwittingly drawn into the conflict and barely escapes summary execution. Scott was ordained as an elder in the Presbyterian Church of Duddington and sat in the General Assembly for a time as representative elder of the burgh of Selkirk. Some Presbyterian denominations enroll ministers as members of their respective congregations, while others enroll the minister as a member of the regional presbytery. Show More Sentences The Church of Scotland is Presbyterian in polity and Reformed in theology. Some independent Scottish Presbyterian denominations still remain. To reduce their influence the Scots Parliament guaranteed Presbyterian governance of the Church by law, excluding what became the Scottish Episcopal Church. The Church of Scotland was then established on a Presbyterian basis. The second largest Presbyterian denomination in Scotland is the Free Church of Scotland with 10,896 people identifying as being of that church at the 2011 census. After the reunification of the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church, some independent Scottish Presbyterian denominations still remained. During the 16th century, Scotland underwent a Protestant Reformation that created a predominately Calvinist national kirk, which was strongly Presbyterian in outlook. The Church of Scotland, which is Presbyterian, and the Anglican churches in Wales and Northern Ireland, which are no longer established churches, are not represented. In addition to the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, there is also a more conservative Presbyterian church called Grace Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Most of these bodies merged between 1859 and 1870, and in 1901 formed a federal union called the Presbyterian Church of Australia but retaining their state assemblies. In South Korea there are 100 different Presbyterian denominations. In addition also there are a number of Presbyterian Churches in north Africa, the most known is the Nile Synod in Egypt and a recently founded synod for Sudan. Southern Africa is a major base of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches. Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Malawi is an existing small church. It was a mission of the Free Presbyterian church of Scotland. African Presbyterian churches often incorporate diaconal ministries, including social services, emergency relief, and the operation of mission hospitals. There are also ethnic Korean Presbyterian churches in the country. They were originally known as the Calvinist Methodist connexion and in the 1920s it became alternatively known as the Presbyterian Church of Wales. There is also a congregation in the heart of London's financial district called London City Presbyterian Church that is also affiliated with Free Church of Scotland. Thomas Cartwright is thought to be the first Presbyterian in England. Show More Sentences Presbyterian architecture generally makes significant use of symbolism. Prosperous congregations built imposing churches, such as Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, and many others. Over subsequent centuries, many Presbyterian churches modified these prescriptions by introducing hymnody, instrumental accompaniment, and ceremonial vestments into worship. Presbyterian theology typically emphasizes the sovereignty of God, the authority of the Scriptures, and the necessity of grace through faith in Christ. Presbyterian churches derive their name from the presbyterian form of church government, which is governed by representative assemblies of elders. Attitudes among the Presbyterian middle class, however, tended to change in the second half of the 19th century as the Gaelic Revival became associated with Irish nationalism. There are a number of Brethren Assemblies in Cardiff and in the Swansea area and Free Presbyterian Churches in Rhiwderin, near Newport and at Merthyr Tydfil. A strong Presbyterian following had developed, but the Church of Scotland did not agree with King Charles I's expectations of the Protestant religion. The monarch additionally swears a separate oath to preserve Presbyterian church government in the Church of Scotland and this oath is taken before the coronation. The history of the city is displayed at the Museum of Bath Architecture, which is housed in a building built in 1765 as the Trinity Presbyterian Church. John Calvin's theological thought influenced a variety of Congregational, Continental Reformed, United, Presbyterian, and other Reformed churches. The authorities attempted some accommodation with Presbyterian dissidents, introducing official 'Indulgences' in 1669 and 1672, meeting with some limited success. Consequently, as a Calvinist and Presbyterian he was now in the unenviable position of being the head of the Church of England, while technically being a Nonconformist. On 21 February 1660, Monck reinstated the Presbyterian members of the Long Parliament 'secluded' by Pride, so that they could prepare legislation for a new parliament. Thomas Murray, a Presbyterian Scot, was appointed as a tutor. Charles tried to rally support in the Midlands, but by May 1646 he sought shelter with a Presbyterian Scottish army at Southwell, Nottinghamshire. A body within the Puritan movement in the Church of England sought to abolish the office of bishop and remake the Church of England along Presbyterian lines. In the 17th century, political and religious disputes raised the Puritan and Presbyterian faction to control of the church, but this ended with the Restoration. However, in the October 1770 elections, because of the fight over nonimportation, Philadelphia mechanics and carpenters abandoned the Quaker party for the Presbyterian party. The case came to light last week after witnesses said they saw a Hollywood Presbyterian van drop off a paraplegic in Skid Row, without a wheelchair and a broken colostomy bag. Examples from Classical Literature The Presbyterian church is a good, old-fashioned, well-preserved specimen of coquina walls. Papist and sceptic, mystic and ceremonialist, latitudinarian and Presbyterian, all were hostile. He represented the Presbyterian and congregational element in the University. The presiding judge is a member of the congregational church, which is nearly allied to the Presbyterian. The congregationalist, as far as I can learn, is very near to a Presbyterian. The two churches most congenial to the American feelings and institutions are the Presbyterian and congregationalist. I have abandoned such belittling views of God as the Presbyterian sublapsarian view of election. She had made him turn Presbyterian and kept him toeing the Presbyterian mark all his life. All his classmen are leaders in the Presbyterian church as well as of the Nestorian nation. His father was a Presbyterian of the Scotch type, and a ruling elder in the church. This pastoral letter gave rise to a protracted discussion for and against the Presbyterian side of the question. His Protestantism was of the most decided character, but he was not a Presbyterian. Mather Byles, whose Presbyterian scruples had not kept him from the entertainment. Himself he was Presbyterian, while in his own community five men were all that ever mustered at a meeting in the Orange Men's Hall. He was an Antrim man, a Black Presbyterian, and a total abstainer. You can picture a Presbyterian minister in some cold church in Scotland facing pews full of glowers. At its best, the Presbyterian Church in Canada bears witness to a Christ-centred faith that is both robust and inclusive. Everything went well, and with all the fervor of a Presbyterian, he did not forget to thank heaven for it. Daniel Blaine, of Williamsburg, since the war a Presbyterian divine. Her dream was to make me a Presbyterian minister and I was studying with that end in view. Show More Sentences You might as well want to go to that Presbyterian hole in Belfast! Although Driscoll was a freethinker and Howard a strong and determined Presbyterian, their warm intimacy suffered no impairment in consequence. The Presbyterian Church held itself somewhat aloof from the other churches of Winesburg. A nez perce Presbyterian minister was to be their visitant evangelist. Stephanie Brooke Dearman and Kyle Joseph Tootle were united in holy matrimony at five o'clock in the afternoon on April 26, 2014, at First Presbyterian Church in Biloxi. Leavitt fell short in some ways, but he was a good, sound Presbyterian. The house next door to the Presbyterian Church, through the windows of which the minister had seen the sight that had so upset him, was occupied by two women. John Siebert, executive director of Project Ploughshares, a peace and disarmament organization supported by the Presbyterian Church, has resigned after 10 years of service. Occupied by Chippewa, Potawatomi, and Ottawas, the first white settlers were two Presbyterian ministers, Reverend Peter Dougherty and Reverend Smith. It seems to me the back rows of most Presbyterian churches are filled with life forms whose work and dedication and faith are the cornerstone of all our activities. Find more words! 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