PRESBYTERIANISM
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Doctrine, or church government, of Presbyterians.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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That form of church government which, discarding prelacy, regards all ministers in conclave as on the same level in rank and function.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The form of church government by presbyters-that is, by ministers and elders, without the intervention of prelates or superior ecclesiastics.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. The doctrines, principles, and discipline of presbyterian churches ;¬the theory and practice of vesting the government of the church in ministers or elders, possessed of equal power and having no superiority one over the other in office, dignity, or title Scotland, the government of the church by ministers and elders in the four courts called kirk-sessions, presbyteries, synods, and general assemblies.
