The system further exalted the eldership and the pastoral power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference

The eldership has ever been a tower of strength in the Covenanted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference

In St. Cuthbert's, the pride of eldership was chiefly vested in their wives and daughters.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Cuthbert's] Reference

I took the eldership at your hands, I know, saying nothing of the dark blot that soiled the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Cuthbert's] Reference

Whether the power of censures in the congregational eldership, or any other assembly, be of divine right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference

I think part of the problem is the lost sense that the priesthood/pastor/eldership is a CALLING and not a job.    From Wordnik.com.  [You cannot serve two masters] Reference

Such intricate cases may fall out as cannot be determined and settled by the eldership of a single congregation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference

The ceremonies of ordination are declared to be fasting, earnest prayer, and imposition of the hands of the eldership.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics] Reference

And you have a double reason to do so, both from eldership and from the offence so studiously given to one in affliction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Stuarts; also against the infringements and invasions of the just powers of eldership, whereanent, I uttered my paper, called a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference

The evident advance along the line of a more authoritative eldership had developed out of the experience of the first two English churches in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut] Reference

I am privileged to be thought of as a senior staffer at this point, and to provide some significant part of the eldership our organization honors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Clothier: Men's Warrior Weekend] Reference

"They do not prefer to eldership out of the land of Israel: no, not although they that do prefer, have themselves been preferred within the land.".    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

But the proper, public, official, authoritative power, is quite denied to the body of the people, furnished with an eldership or destitute thereof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference

And both these, the authority of the eldership and the consent of the brethren, are necessary to the validity of the sentence, and that according to the appointment of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brief Instruction in the Worship of God] Reference

The lesser assemblies, consisting of the ministers and ruling elders in each single congregation; which, for distinction's sake, is styled the congregational eldership.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Right of Church Government by Sundry Ministers Of Christ Within The City Of London] Reference

Mode of appointing the president of the eldership changed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution] Reference

Amen! Now, I have to admit that I have the ear of the eldership already.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

You've been dinging me doited about that eldership, and we'll play for't.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Minister] Reference

On the question of lay-eldership, indeed, there was a more extensive contest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference

I am eighteen months older than my brother, and up rises the claim of eldership!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna St. Ives] Reference

"I wudna wonder if ye didna come yont to tell me aboot the eldership," he said slowly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dominie in Doubt] Reference

Thanks also to Bill as always for his bit of historical perspective and sage eldership.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily News - News] Reference

"He was to ha 'Janet on condeetion that he made the eldership," he fulsomely explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quaint Courtships] Reference

"To talk up Dunlop, who doesna care a cent for the eldership, an 'then spring the Apoos-tate on him.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Quaint Courtships] Reference

Nay I will allow you to grow as old as you please, you shall have full enjoyment of the rights of eldership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna St. Ives] Reference

What if liked two girls at a time, did this mean that I was not a "one-woman" man (per Paul's requirements for eldership)?.    From Wordnik.com.  [de-conversion] Reference

English to the principle of lay-eldership, to associate with these ministers the Earl of Cassilis, Lord Maitland, and Johnstone of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference