Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 48 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: T II E BIBLIOTHECA SACRA. ARTICLE I. A PRESBYTERIAN'S VIEW OF CONGREGATIONALISM. BY THE REV. . HASTINGS ROSS, !).l).. I-ort HURON, MICH. THE prayer of the poet? " O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us. To see oursels as others see us!" is, providentially, not often answered. But when it is answered, those who make it ought not to forego the pleasure of a careful scrutiny. Congregationalists have now that privilege. A Presbyterian after a half-century of study has drawn their portrait.1 And let us look at it. Rev. Dr. Killen, " after a brief but remarkably useful pastoral life, was called to the Professorship of Church History in the Presbyterian College, Belfast, and a large proportion of the clergy of the Irish Presbyterian Church have caught the spirit of his Lectures on 'Church History' and 'Pastoral Theology.' Dr. Killen is a pronounced Presbyterian, but not from mere hereditary leaning; but, as the lawyers say,' for cause.'" 2 1 The Framework of the Church. A Treatise on Church Government. By W. D. Killen, D.D., President of Assembly's College, Belfast, and Principal of the Presbyterian Theological Faculty, Ireland. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark; New York: Scribner and Welford. 1890. (Pp. xvi, 355- 96.) 3-5o- 2 Rev. John Hall, D.D., Minister Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New- York, in Preface, p. v, to a new and revised edition of Dr. Killen's Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution, Traced for the First Three Hundred Years. 1883. 8vo. pp. xvii, 612. VOL. XLVIII. NO. 190. i Our author divides his "Framework of the Church" into four parts: The Church and its Government (six chapters, pp. 1-51); Congregationalism (six chapters, pp. 53-110); Prelacy (thirteen chapters, pp. 111-235); Presbyterianism (eleven chapters, pp....