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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 1834-1843 CHURCH OF SCOTLAND 69 CHAPTER III. CHURCH OP SCOTLAND, 1834-1843. The Ten Years' Conflict?Patronage?' Taking on Trials '?The Call?Veto Act?Collision with Civil Courts?A Policy of Reserve?Spiritual Independence?Demand for Abolition of Patronage?Claim of Kight?Convocation of Ministers?Answer from the Crown?Answer from Parliament ?Letters to and from the Queen?Secession?Majority or Minority? ?Free Church and Old Church. Scotland seldom troubles Prime Ministers, and of Sir Robert Peel's letters Irish are to Scotch as ten to one. But on one question in his time the Church of Scotland urgently invoked his aid. It has been surmised that Peel, absorbed in other duties, did not fully attend to Scottish Church affairs, but was misled by colleagues. His letters do not confirm this. He was the last man, in a crisis, to throw his responsibility on others. In this, as in all other business of the State, he took great pains, and used his own best judgment. The years 1842-3 brought to an end the strife which had been going on for ten years (1834-1843) in Scotland between Church and State. The occasion of this contest was Patronage, as opposed to popular choice of ministers. The deeper cause lay in conflicting views of ' spiritual independence.' According to the Free Church historian of this contest, the chief issues raised were unfamiliar to Protestants, except in Scotland. Since the Reformation ' neither States nor Churches had had much recourse to the great principles involved in these questions. Scotland had been almost exclusively the battle-field for them. By none of the Reformed Churches out of Scotland was the doctrine of Christ's Headship thoroughly investigated. What the Confession of Augsburg stigmatised with the greatest energy was the intrusion of the C...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217555302 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217555306 |
| Weight | 1.64 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.14 In |
| List Price | $29.69 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 510 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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