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31 results for “The Sacraments”, plus 6 in the Atlas
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Book of Church Order (PCA)
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30-3
30-3. Suspension from Sacraments is the temporary exclusion from those ordinances, and is indefinite as to its duration. …
37-3
… court alone or publicly. At this time the offender shall be restored to the Sacraments of the Church, and/or to his office, if such shall be the judgment of …
36-5
36-5. Indefinite suspension from office or the Sacraments should be administered after the manner prescribed for definite suspension, but with added solemnity, …
36-7
… say: We do moreover, by the same authority, suspend the said ____________________ from the Sacraments of the Church, until he shall exhibit satisfactory evidence of sincere repentance, or We …
37-8
37-8. In the restoration of a minister who is under indefinite suspension from the Sacraments, and/or his office, or has been deposed, it is the duty of the Presbytery …
38-3
… judged by the court of original jurisdiction as failing to maintain the Word and Sacraments in their fundamental integrity (BCO 2-2), that member or minister shall be warned of …
Preliminary Principles
… His body, has appointed officers not only to preach the Gospel and administer the Sacraments, but also to exercise discipline for the preservation both of truth and duty. It …
2-2
… different denominations of professing Christians; but all of these which maintain the Word and Sacraments in their fundamental integrity are to be recognized as true branches of the Church …
3-2
… twofold. The officers exercise it sometimes severally, as in preaching the Gospel, administering the Sacraments, reproving the erring, visiting the sick, and comforting the afflicted, which is the power …
4-4
… are prayer; singing praises; reading, expounding and preaching the Word of God; administering the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper; public solemn fasting and thanksgiving; catechizing; making offerings …
5-10
… be taken to secure, as soon as practicable, the regular administration of Word and Sacraments.
8-5
… flock by reading, expounding and preaching the Word of God and to administer the Sacraments. As he is sent to declare the will of God to sinners, and to …
8-6
… for a renewable term of twelve months to preach the Word, to administer the Sacraments, to receive and dismiss members of mission churches, and to train potential officers. By …
11-2
11-2. The jurisdiction of Church courts is only ministerial and declarative, and relates to the doctrines and precepts of Christ, to the order of the Church, and to …
12-5
… time and place of the preaching of the Word and the administration of the Sacraments, over all other religious services, over the music in the services, and over the …
13-6
… personal character and family management), and also as to his views in theology, the Sacraments, and church government. If the examining Presbytery does not accept the Minister seeking admission, …
14-1
… to be examined in the areas of: a. Christian experience, b. Theology, c. The Sacraments, d. Church government, e. Bible content, f. Church history, and the g. History of …
19-1
… minister’s own Presbytery administers against him a censure of suspension from office or the sacraments, or deposition from office, or of excommunication (in the event of such censures, the …
19-15
… He shall have the right to conduct funerals. An intern may not administer the Sacraments. He may serve on committees of the church he serves.
21-4
… knowledge of the Greek and Hebrew languages, (c) Bible content, (d) theology, (e) the Sacraments, (f) Church history, (g) the history of the Presbyterian Church in America, and (h) …
30-1
… The censures, which may be inflicted by church courts, are admonition, suspension from the Sacraments, excommunication, suspension from office, and deposition from office. The censures of admonition or definite …
33-2
… accused person is found contumacious (cf. 32-6), he shall be immediately suspended from the sacraments (and if an officer from his office) for his contumacy. Record shall be made …
34-4
… an offense is found contumacious (cf. 32-6), he shall be immediately suspended from the sacraments and his office for his contumacy. Record shall be made of the fact and …
36-6
… we, the Session of ________________________ church do pronounce him to be excluded from the Sacraments, and cut off from the fellowship of the Church. Prayer shall then be made …
37-2
37-2. After any person has been indefinitely suspended from the Sacraments, it is proper that the rulers of the church should frequently converse with him …
Also in the Atlas
Divines, cruxes, schools, and heads of doctrine
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Heads of doctrine
Religious Worship and the Sabbath
… Worship includes prayer, the reading and preaching of the Word, the administration of the sacraments, singing of psalms, religious oaths, and the keeping of the Lord's Day. WCF XXI.7-8 …
The Sacraments (General)
Sacraments are holy signs and seals of the covenant of grace, immediately instituted by God, …
Schools & traditions
English Presbyterian Majority
… a significant hypothetical-universalist minority within their own ranks), strict-Sabbatarian, three-uses-of-the-law, and signs-and-seals on the sacraments. The Smectymnuans (Calamy, Marshall, Young, Newcomen, Spurstowe) were the most publicly visible subgroup. Most …
The Savoy Declaration (1658)
… Westminster Confession nearly verbatim on doctrine (including the decree, justification, the law, and the sacraments) but rewrote the polity chapters to replace presbyterianism with gathered-church Independency and softened the …