| Church of Scotland - 1722 - 846 páginas
...fome of the Living to prepare themfelves tor Death, yet fhall fome fuperftitious think that finging and reading of the living may profite the dead. And therefore we think it moft expedient, that the dead be conveyed to the place of Buriall with fome honeft Company of the Kirk,... | |
| George Cook - 1819 - 444 páginas
...the way for renewing the enormous abuses which the.y were anxious for ever to banish. " For avoiding all inconveniencies, we judge it best that neither singing nor reading be at the burial ; for although these things may admonish the living to prepare themselves for death, yet superstitious and... | |
| 1831 - 532 páginas
...expresly repugne to the manifest Scriptures and veritie thereof. 2. For avoiding of all inconveniences we judge it best, that neither singing nor reading be at [the] buriall: For albeit things sung and read may admonish some of the living to prepare themselves for... | |
| William Maxwell Hetherington - 1848 - 570 páginas
...expresly repugne to the manifest Scriptures and veritie thereof. 2. For avoiding of all inconveniences, we judge it best that neither singing nor reading be at [the] buriull: For albeit things sung and read may admonish some of the living to prepare themselves for... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1870 - 538 páginas
...and do repugne to the plain Scriptures of God." The conclusion is : " For avoiding all inconvenients, we judge it best that neither singing nor reading...themselves for death, yet shall some superstitious and ignorant persons ever think that the singing and reading of the living do and may profit the dead.... | |
| John Hill Burton - 1873 - 506 páginas
...and do repugne to the plain Scriptures of God." The conclusion is : " For avoiding all inconvenients, we judge it best that neither singing nor reading...themselves for death, yet shall some superstitious and ignorant persons ever think that the singing and reading of the living do and may profit the dead.... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1878 - 592 páginas
...inconvenience — * We judge it best that neither singing nor reading be at a burial ; for, although it may admonish some of the living to prepare themselves for death, yet it is the view of some superstitious persons that the singing and the reading of the living may benefit... | |
| Andrew Edgar - 1886 - 436 páginas
...at funerals. In the First Book of Discipline, the Reformers said, " for avoiding all inconveniences, we judge it best that neither singing nor reading be at the burial," and that " the dead be conveyed to the place of burial with some honest company of the kirk, without... | |
| John Knox - 1898 - 400 páginas
...be converted ! Services at Funerals optional, but not recommended. For avoiding all inconveniences, we judge it best, that neither singing nor reading...themselves for death, yet shall some superstitious and ignorant persons ever think, that the works — singing or reading of the living — do and may... | |
| William Andrews - 1899 - 312 páginas
...and the Westminster Directory, the compilers of the former saying, " for avoiding all inconveniences, we judge it best that neither singing nor reading be at the burial, . . . yea, without all kind of ceremony heretofore used, other than that the dead be committed to the... | |
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