| 单词 | the secession church |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Secession Church b. spec. The separation from the Established Church of Scotland, initiated in 1733 by the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine and other ministers; the religious body (more fully the Secession Church) which originated from this separation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Secession secession1733 secessionism1899 society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Secession > person > collective secession1733 1733 E. Erskine, etc. Protest in A. Thomson Hist. Secession Ch. (1848) 72 Therefore we do..protest that we are obliged to make a secession from them [the prevailing party in this Established Church], and that we can have no ministerial communion with them, till [etc.]. 1782 J. Brown Addr. Students Divinity in Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. p. xviii I look upon the Secession as indeed the cause of God. 1860 J. Cairns Mem. J. Brown i. 3 That form of Scottish dissent, called the Secession..had taken its rise in 1733. < as lemmas |
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