| 单词 | presbytery of relief |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPresbytery of Relief (a) Usually with capital initial. Freedom from a system of ecclesiastical patronage; applied spec. to a movement within the 18th-cent. Church of Scotland which asserted the right of a congregation to elect its own ministers. Chiefly in Church of Relief, Presbytery of Relief, etc. Now historical.The Relief movement resulted in a secession from the Establishment in 1761, and the formation of the Relief Church by Thomas Gillespie (1708–74) and others. In 1847 the church amalgamated with the United Secession to form the United Presbyterian Church. ΚΠ 1736 in J. MacKerrow Hist. Secession Church (1841) 101 This Presbytery should make some step towards the relief of the Lord's oppressed heritage. 1761 in J. MacKerrow Hist. Secession Church (1841) 283 The presbytery did, and hereby do, form themselves into a Presbytery of Relief, for the relief of Christians. 1775 M. J. Armstrong Compan. Map of Peebles 57 The town..Has a meeting house, or church of relief. 1794 Z. Yewdall in Arminian Mag. Aug. (1795) 371 Here I found a large parish church, two meeting-houses, and a Kirk of relief. 1847 Mem. Union of Secession & Relief Churches 7 To begin and maintain a friendly intercourse with the Synod of Relief. 1867 Chambers's Encycl. at United Presb. Ch. They boldly resolved to deprive the people of all right to elect..ministers. Never were forced settlements more shameless... Relief was felt to be a necessity. 1909 New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 84 The ‘free church’ movement manifested itself first and most forcibly in Scotland, in the Secession Church of 1733, the Church of Relief of 1752 [etc.]. 2004 K. B. E. Roxburgh in A. E. McGrath & D. C. Marks Blackwell Compan. Protestantism i. vii. 113 The three ministers and an elder from each of the three congregations met together and constituted themselves into the Presbytery of Relief. < as lemmas |
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