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The law of creeds in Scotland : a treatise on the legal relation of churches in Scotland established and not established, to their doctrinal confessions / by Alexander Taylor Innes, 1867

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Identifier: I0690202231

Dates

  • Publication: 1867

Creator

Full Extent

1 Volumes (Book) : Harcover ; xvi, 495 pages ; 23 cm.

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Table of contents

CHAPTER I. The Scottish Confession. 1560 and 1567. -- CHAPTER II. The Westminster Confession. 1647 and 1690. -- CHAPTER III. The Treaty of Union, and the Definition of 1843. -- CHAPTER IV. The Present Legal Relation of the Established Church to its Creed. -- CHAPTER V. The Legal Theory of Non-Established Churches. -- CHAPTER VI. Questions of Property of Non-Established Churches in Relation to Creeds. -- CHAPTER VII. The Position Assumed by Non-Established Churches in Scotland in Reference to their Creeds. -- Appendix -- Note A. Act of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland anent Questions and Formula -- Note B. Declaration by the Free Church Assembly as to Standards, 1851 -- Note C. The United Presbyterian Church. Basis of Union of 1847 -- Note D. United Presbyterian Formula -- Note E. Documents of the Scottish Episcopal Church: 1. Preface to Code of Canons, 2. Extracts from Canons, 3. The Thirty-Nine Articles -- Note F. Notes on the theory of a Church and its creed, with special reference to the "Doctrine of the Reformed Churches" (Act 1690, c. 5) -- Index of Matters -- Index of Cases -- Index of Statutes.

Publisher

Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1867.

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Repository Details

Part of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria Archives Repository

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