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It is believed to be the first ecclesiastical organization for actual union and co-operation in mission lands by the representatives of churches holding the Reformed faith and Presbyterial polity.
Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. Rev. John Gerardus Fagg
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If this church is Presbyterial in practice, it is on no better footing than that of the Revolution Church of Scotland.
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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A few days later I was speaking at a Presbyterial gathering in western
How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time Rosalind Goforth
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The ladies of the Winnipeg Presbyterial had arranged a series of meetings for me in Winnipeg, Brandon, and other places in that vicinity, about ten in all.
How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time Rosalind Goforth
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Presbyterial church government, exclusive of all superior dignity above
Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive The Reformed Presbytery
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Presbyterial, consisting of the ministers and elders of several adjacent or neighboring single congregations, or parish churches, ruling those several congregations in common; this kind of assembly is commonly called the presbytery, or, for distinction's sake, the classical presbytery, i.e. the presbytery of such a rank of churches.
The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London
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The local government was changed from the democratic to something more Presbyterial than Congregational, because of the belief that the Negroes were not prepared
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Presbyterial colleges appointed by election, frequently at the suggestion of apostles and prophets who happen to be present, are the constant characteristic of the sub-apostolic age.
The Beginnings of Christianity. Vol. II. 1872-1939 1904
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At a Presbyterial meeting in north China, the native ministers held a two-hours 'prayer-meeting before daylight.
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These are a sort of godless politics, who, perceiving the plot of discipline to consist of these two parts, the overthrow of Episcopal, and erection of Presbyterial authority; and that this latter can take no place till the former be removed; are content to join with them in the destructive part of discipline, bearing them in hand, that in the other also they shall find them as ready.
Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898
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