[279] [In some editions of the Genevan version the word "eldership" is thus explained in the margin: "Under this name he containeth the whole ministerie of the church which was at Ephesus."] [280] Assertion of the Government of the Church of Scotland, 1641, pp. 128-130, 136-147. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)
"AgeSong's nationally recognized approach to building design and programming is reflected throughout the building and redefines the concept of" eldership "with architecture and landscaping that affirm the residents 'dignity and wisdom," said Massih. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I am privileged to be thought of as a senior staffer at this point, and to provide some significant part of the eldership our organization honors. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I think part of the problem is the lost sense that the priesthood/pastor/eldership is a CALLING and not a job. ❋ Nomad (2009)
Stuarts; also against the infringements and invasions of the just powers of eldership, whereanent, I uttered my paper, called a ❋ Unknown (2007)
And you have a double reason to do so, both from eldership and from the offence so studiously given to one in affliction. ❋ Unknown (2006)
What confirmed me in this, was, that the younger lady was a good deal more free when her sister was withdrawn, than when she was present; and again pursed-up her really pretty mouth when she re-turned: and her sister addressed her always by the word child, with an air of eldership; while the other called her sister, with a look of observance. ❋ Unknown (2006)
"They do not prefer to eldership out of the land of Israel: no, not although they that do prefer, have themselves been preferred within the land." ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)
And both these, the authority of the eldership and the consent of the brethren, are necessary to the validity of the sentence, and that according to the appointment of ❋ 1616-1683 (1965)
[200] Even the Second Book of Discipline does not sharply distinguish between the lesser and greater eldership or presbytery; and Gillespie admits they were not distinguished in the primitive church, though he holds that both were needed in Scotland to do the work which the one presbytery did in the primitive church (_infra_, pp. 230-233). ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)
Election is defined to be the choosing out of a person or persons most able for the office that is vacant, by the judgment of the eldership and consent of the congregation to which the person or persons are appointed. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)
The ceremonies of ordination are declared to be fasting, earnest prayer, and imposition of the hands of the eldership. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)
The weight of authority is certainly very decidedly in favour of the opinion which identifies this eldership with the presbytery. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)
Discipline really designed was one presbytery or eldership governing a larger or smaller number of churches in common; and that we owe the distribution of the power between the two courts rather to the Act of ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)
In St. Cuthbert's, the pride of eldership was chiefly vested in their wives and daughters. ❋ Robert E. Knowles (N/A)
I took the eldership at your hands, I know, saying nothing of the dark blot that soiled the past. ❋ Robert E. Knowles (N/A)
He was a zealous member of the Free Church, and being admitted to the eldership, was on two occasions sent as a representative to the General ❋ Various (N/A)
This being the case, we are not guilty of any anachronism in attributing substantially presbyterian opinions to our reformer, even if we have to grant that the particular church court first known as the greater eldership or presbytery, and now exclusively enjoying the title of presbytery, existed at that time only in a rudimentary form. ❋ Alexander F. Mitchell (N/A)
