 The which our duty being well considered, we do promise, before the majesty of God and His Congregation, that we (by His grace) shall with all diligence continually apply our whole power, substance, and our very lives, to maintain, set forward, and establish...  History of Scotland - Sida 133efter Robert Anderson (schoolmaster.) - 1874Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Charles Sumner Lobingier - 1909 - 466 sidor
...gathered at Edinburgh and signed what is known in history as the First Covenant.2 By it they agree "to maintain, set forward and establish the most blessed Word of God and His Congregation . . . forsake and renounce the Congregation of Satan with all the superstitious abomination and idolatry... | |
 | David Hay Fleming - 1910 - 742 sidor
...that by His grace they shall with all diligence continually apply their whole power, substance and very lives, to maintain, set forward, and establish...the most blessed Word of God and His congregation ; and labour to have faithful ministers ; and maintain and defend them, and the whole congregation... | |
 | Williston Walker - 1908 - 402 sidor
...Scotland. On December 3, 1557, its leaders drafted at Edinburgh the first Scottish "Covenant," agreeing "to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed Word of God and His congregation," from which they soon obtained the nickname of the " Lords of the Congregation." The political situation... | |
 | Albert Henry Currier - 1915 - 340 sidor
...Covenant says, "that we by His grace shall with all diligence apply our whole power, substance and our very lives to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed Word of God and His Congregation ; and shall labor at our possibility to have faithful ministers purely and truly to minister Christ's... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - 1917 - 368 sidor
...'we, by his grace, shall, with all diligence, continually apply our whole power, substance, and our lives to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed word of God.'. At Perth, in, 1559, they entered into covenant ' to put away all things that dishonor his name that... | |
 | Ninian Hill - 1919 - 308 sidor
...That we, by His Grace, shall with all diligence continually apply our whole power, substance, and our very lives, to maintain, set forward, and establish...the most blessed Word of God, and His Congregation ; and shall labour at our possibility to have faithful Ministers, purely and truely to minister Christ's... | |
 | Preserved Smith - 1920 - 894 sidor
...headed by the earls of Argyle, Glencairn and Morton, promised to apply their whole power, substance and lives to maintain, set forward and establish "the most blessed Word of God and his congregation." Under the protection of this bond, reformed churches were set up openly. The Lords of the Congregation,... | |
 | Charles Sanford Terry - 1920 - 766 sidor
...was accelerated. In December 1557 the first Covenant was signed, a' band' pledging its signatories ' to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed word of God' and to labour for the institution and support of ' faithful ministers purely and truly to minister Christ's... | |
 | Charles Sanford Terry - 1921 - 302 sidor
...movement, its progress was rapid. In December 1557 the first Covenant was signed, pledging its signatories 'to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed word of God.' The 'Congregation of Jesus Christ,' or 'Lords of the Congregation,' as the new organization came to... | |
 | 1916 - 568 sidor
...covenant in which they pledged themselves "to apply their CALEDONIAN whole power substance and their lives to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed word of God." Again in 1581, when a great fear of the Jesuit influence arose all over the country, a similar document... | |
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