...in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches;—that they, and their posterity after them, might, as brethren, live in faith and love;...

...- * Rushworth, vol. v. pp. 472, 475 07 what they meant, when they agreed to a reformation according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches. The second article has, with equal unfairness, been urged against the contracting parties, as if they...

...studied ambiguity — the religious system of England, it was provided, should be reformed " according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches." The Scots, usually more cautious in their transactions, never allowed themselves to doubt for a moment,...

...sectaries, who did or should refuse to submit to that discipline and government which was most agreeable to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches ; and it was also implored, that, agreeably to the advice of the assembly of the divines of both kingdoms,...

...it was merely stipulated that the reformation of religion in England should be effected " according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed churches ": A captious clause evidently left, as between the presbyterians and the independents, to the interpretation...

...against the common enemy, and to reform that of England (not so as it is in Scotland, but) according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches ; and to endeavour an uniformity, which might be as well by reforming that of Scotland, as that of...

...against the common enemy, and to reform that of England (not so as it is in Scotland, but) according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches ; and to endeavour an uniformity, which might be as well by reforming that of Scotland, as that of...

...establish Presbytery in its stead. The judgment of the Westminster Assembly settled, that, " according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches," the government of the church consisted in congregational, classical, and synodical assemblies. Immediately...

...length, the general, though by no means ambiguous declaration, that it should be conducted, " according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed churches," was unanimously adopted ; both parties being content to leave the settlement of such modifications...

...in the kingdoms of England and Ireland, in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed churches ; and we shall endeavour to bring the churches of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest conjunction...