consistory, (from Latin consistorium, “assembly place”), a gathering of ecclesiastical persons for the purpose of administering justice or transacting business,
(Entry 1 of 3) archaic. : theone addressed thou shalt have no other gods before me— Exodus 20:3 (King James Version) —used especially in ecclesiastical or literary language and by Friends as the universal form of address to one person — compare thee, thine, thy, ye, you. ...
In almost every instance “church” is a translation of the Greek ekklesia (from which we get words like “ecclesiastical” and “Ecclesiastes”). Never does ekklesia refer to a building in which people gathered, for worship or for any other purpose. (In fact, the earliest Christians didn’...
dears). It is straight out of the “Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” stable, in an attempt to discriminate against homosexuals, with people with as much of an understanding of human behaviour, biology, gender, and sexuality as Sharron Davies evidently has. Indeed, one person replying on...
governance. He can do this when, with deepest understanding he lays upon himself the reproach. Caesar non est supra grammaticos. Far more does he injure his own majesty when he degrades his supreme power by supporting the ecclesiastical despotism of some tyrants in his state over his other ...
It is not composed, as in Europe, of great lords who possess every thing and of a herd of people who have nothing. Here are no aristocratical families, no courts, no kings, no bishops, no ecclesiastical dominion, no invisible power giving to a few a very visible one; no great ...
The teaching of the Church has indeed been handed down through an order of succession from the apostles and remains in the churches even to the present time. That alone is to be believed as the truth which is in no way at variance with ecclesiastical and apostolic tradition” (The ...
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A person who is plucked, that is, refused an academic degree. Disciple To teach; to train. That better were in virtues discipled. Apostle (legal) A letter dismissory. Disciple To punish; to discipline. Apostle (legal) A note sent to an appeals court presenting the appeal in summary. Dis...
(Ecclesiastical) The ceremony of consecration to the ministry. Consecration The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of being consecrated; dedication. Until the days of your consecration be at an end. Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemnly declares it so. Ordination An ...