Practical Remarks on the Scotch Church Question [By Sir G. Sinclair.]. - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841. Excerpt: ... 'into effect his will in regard to the settlement of his ministers in their several stations, and having committed to the rulers and members of the Church the formal cull to the pastoral office, this meeting do declare it to be their conscientious conviction, that patronage, in every form, in the Church of Scotland, is incompatible with the unfettered exercise of functions so sacred and responsible, and therefore ought to be entirely swept away." In support of that resolution the reverend mover said--"I am not deterred from taking up this ground by the taunts which are sometimes addressed to us from various quarters, I believe that our friends generally are finding it to be their duty more and more, regardless of these taunts, and regardless of those aspersions, which are employed for the purpose of preventing us from taking up this ground of so decided a character--the friends of evangelical truth in the Church of Scotland are more and more coming to be as one on the point that patronage is a system radically bad, and completely opposed to the Word of God; and that it should be denounced as anti-scriptural--not only as unscriptural, but contrary to the Word of God, and in that view to be removed. Mr. Chairman, I believe it will be agreed by most that are here, that there are, in the words of Andrew Melville, two kingdoms in Scotland--the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ and the kingdom of Queen Victoria--two distinct kingdoms, under distinct heads, having distinct laws and distinct objects--having each a distinct government, and each having a separate statute-book. (Hear, hear.)" Then he explained how patronage could not subsist in this separate kingdom of a national Church; and summed up his argument by the declaration that patronage was " an ungodly pr...

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