 | Samuel Simon Schmucker - 1834 - 430 pages
...obligation, which are contained in the New Testament, and such other regulations dictated by reason, best adapted to the genius of our free republican institutions,...the purpose of holding stated protracted meetings. These Conferences are subdivisions of Synods, embracing from five to ten ministers each, who are annually... | |
 | Well-wisher to society - 1834 - 434 pages
...obligation, which are contained in the New Testament, and such other regulations dictated by reason, best adapted to the genius of our free republican institutions,...Christ. The fundamental features of this system are Art. VIII. j THE ECLECTIC, Oi1 AMERICO-LUTHERAN SYSTEM. 187 the following, viz. 1. Parity of ministers,... | |
 | Samuel Simon Schmucker - 1846 - 528 pages
...Testament, and such other regulations as are dictated by 1 Upham's Ratio Disciplina;, p. 98. reason, best adapted to the genius of our free republican institutions,...as representatives of the church, 3. Union of the cfrurches within the limits of a Synod for the regular purposes of review and government, 4. Special... | |
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Lutheran, as found in the United States. This, in reference to the systems before mentioned, is Eclectic in its nature. It embraces all those principles and precepts, of permanent obligation, which are contained in the New Testament, and such other regulations... 