Westminster Assembly
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The minutes of the Westminster Assembly show that some of the divines maintained that a promise of marriage was a “covenant of God,” and could not be broken, even by mutual consent.
From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various
On the other hand, the Westminster Assembly advised that marriages should not be solemnised on the Lord’s day.
From Bygone Church Life in Scotland by Various
Either he or his father, James Rowlandson, also of Queen's College, was sequestered by the Westminster Assembly to the vicarage of Battle, Sussex, in 1644.
From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by E. K. (Edmund Kerchever) Chambers
He was one of the Commissioners from the Church of Scotland, to the Westminster Assembly.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
Such was the famous Westminster Assembly, called together by the Parliament of England to consider the entire state of the country in matters of religion.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
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