...Jerusalem were passed also by them and went forth with their name.! From hence we infer, that although no case occurs in the inspired history, where it is mentioned that a church elected its pastor, yet it so entirely accords with the practice of the church in other respects, that an exception in...

...standard. In the Election of Pastors they " appeal to the suffrages of the people." Mr. James admits that " no case occurs in the inspired history, where...it is mentioned, that a church elected its pastor;" (Church Member's Guide 2d. Edition p. 12.) nor have we any recorded direction given by Christ or his...

...with strong feelings of abhorrence, the unhallowed practices of Dissenters, who are forced to confess that " no case occurs in the Inspired History, where it is mentioned that a Church elected Us own Pastor," and yet presume, in spite of the convictions of their own consciences, and • Acts,...

...de bataille here is a concession of Mr. James in his ' Church Member's Guide,' in which he says, ' no case occurs in the inspired history where it is mentioned that a church elected its pastor.' Over this Mr. G. chuckles with all the obstreperous joy of a hen that has laid its first egg"!!! What...

...irrelevant are the precedents appealed to for lay-ordination. It is acknowledged by Dissenters themselves that " no case occurs in the inspired history where...it is mentioned that a church elected its pastor, no one instance of a mere popular ordination '." It would be strange indeed, if there did ; for how...

...constitute a Christian minister, is the fact confessed by the most ardent advocates for such elections, that, " No case occurs in the inspired history where it is mentioned that a church elected its pastor "." This fact is undeniable, and it is conclusive. Popular election alone cannot constitute a minister...

...passed also by them, and went forth with their name. Acts xv. 23. From hence we infer, that although no case occurs in the inspired history, where it is mentioned that a church elected its pastor, yet it so entirely accords with the practice of the church in other respects, that an exception in...

...thing so solemn and weighty as the election of the pastor by the flock to which he is to minister. " No case occurs in the inspired history where it is mentioned that a Church elected its pastor ; yet it so entirely accords with the practice of the Church in other respects, that an exception in...

...Scripture evidence on the point is so weak, that a dissenter of high character has not hesitated to say, ' that no case occurs in the inspired history where it is mentioned that a Church elected its pastors.' See Mr. James' Church Members' Guide, p. 12. K all, I admit, respectable and weighty. Milner,...

...principles be compared with the admission of Mr. James, himself a celebrated Dissenting Minister. " No case occurs, in the inspired history, where it is mentioned that a Church elected its Pastor." — James's " Church Members' Guide," 8th edition, page 1 0. It is curious to compare the assertions...