The Life of the Late George Hill, D.D., Principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews

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A. Constable, 1820 - 402 من الصفحات
 

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الصفحة 280 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
الصفحة 148 - Election is the choosing out of a person, or persons, most able, to the office that takes, by the judgment of the eldership, and consent of the congregation to which the person or persons shall be appointed.
الصفحة 371 - Playfair has very great merit, and more knowledge and a better judgment than any of his class-fellows. I make no exceptions ; my parts might be more showy, and the kind of reading to which my inclination led me, was calculated to enable me to make a better figure at St Andrews ; but, in judgment and understanding, I am greatly inferior to him.
الصفحة 24 - I am sure I am pliable enough, more than I think sometimes quite right. I can laugh or be grave, talk nonsense, or politics, or philosophy, just as it suits my company, and can submit to any mortification to please those with whom I converse. I cannot flatter; but I can listen with attention, and seem pleased with everything that anybody says. By arts like these, which have perhaps a little meanness in them, but are so convenient that one does not choose to lay them aside, I have had the good luck...
الصفحة 148 - It is to be eschewed that any person be intruded in any offices of the Kirk contrary to the will of the congregation to which they are appointed, or without the voice of the eldership.
الصفحة 400 - Ut ergo velimus sine nobis operatur, cum autem volumus " et sic volumus, ut faciamus, nobiscum cooperatur, tamen " sine illo vel operante ut velimus, vel cooperante cum " volumus, ad bona pietatis opera nihil valemus.
الصفحة 303 - House, and urged every resistance, in his power to a "measure subversive of all the principles which placed the House of Brunswick upon the throne of these realms.
الصفحة 219 - No theology in the belief that God is, and that He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him...
الصفحة 145 - Declaring, That the moderation of a Call in settling Ministers, is agreeable to the immemorial and constitutional practice of this Church ; and that it ought to be continued...
الصفحة 148 - Ordains all presentation to benefices to be direct to the particular Presbyteries, in all time coming ; with full power to give collation thereupon ; and to put order to all matters and causes ecclesiastical within their bounds, according to the discipline of the kirk : Providing the foresaid Presbyteries be bound and astricted to receive and admit whatsoever qualified minister, presented by his Majesty, or lay patrons.

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