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See also:GLAS, See also:JOHN (1695-1773) , Scottish divine, was See also:born at See also:Auchtermuchty, See also:Fife, where his See also:father was See also:parish See also:minister, on the 5th of See also:October 1695. He was educated at Kinclaven and the See also:grammar school, See also:Perth, graduated A.M. at the university of St See also:Andrews in 1713, and completed his See also:education for the See also:ministry at See also:Edinburgh. He was licensed as a preacher by the See also:presbytery of See also:Dunkeld, and soon afterwards ordained by that of See also:Dundee as minister of the parish of Tealing (1719), where his effective See also:preaching soon secured a large See also:congregation. See also:Early in his ministry he was " brought to a stand " while lecturing on the " Shorter See also:Catechism " by the question " How doth See also:Christ execute the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of a See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king ? " This led to an examination of the New Testament See also:foundation of the See also:Christian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, and in 1725, in a See also:letter to See also:Francis See also:Archibald, minister of See also:Guthrie, See also:Forfarshire, he repudiated the See also:obligation of See also:national covenants. In the same See also:year his views found expression in the formation of a society " See also:separate from the multitude " numbering nearly a See also:hundred, and See also:drawn from his own and neighbouring parishes. The members of this ecclesiola in See also:ecclesia pledged themselves " to join together in the Christian profession, to follow Christ the See also:Lord as the righteousness of his See also:people, to walk together in brotherly love, and in the duties of it, in subjection to Mr Glas as their overseer in the Lord, to observe the See also:ordinance of the Lord's Supper once every See also:month, to submit themselves to the Lord's See also:law for removing offences," &c. (Matt. xviii. 15-20). From the scriptural See also:doctrine of the essentially spiritual nature of the See also:kingdom of Christ, Glas in his public teaching See also:drew the conclusions: (I) that there is no See also:warrant in the New Testament for a national church; (2) that the See also:magistrate as such has no See also:function in the church; (3) that national covenants are without scriptural grounds; (4) that the true See also:Reformation cannot be carried out by See also:political and See also:secular weapons but by the word and spirit of Christ only.
This See also:argument is most fully exhibited in a See also:treatise entitled The Testimony of the King of Martyrs (1729). For the promulgation of these views, which were confessedly at variance with the doctrines of the See also:standards of the national church of See also:Scotland, he was summoned (1726) before his presbytery, where in the course of the investigations which followed he affirmed still more explicitly his belief that " every national church established by the See also:laws of earthly kingdoms is antichristian in its constitution and persecuting in its spirit," and further declared opinions upon the subject of church See also:government which amounted to a repudiation of See also:Presbyterianism and an See also:acceptance of the puritan type of Independency. For these opinions he was in 1728 suspended from the See also:discharge of ministerial functions, and finally deposed in 1730. The members of the society already referred to, however, for the most See also:part continued to adhere
to him, thus constituting the first " Glassite " or " Glasite " church. The seat of this congregation was shortly afterwards transferred to Dundee (whence Glas subsequently removed to Edinburgh), where he officiated for some See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time as an " See also:elder." He next laboured in Perth for a few years, where he was joined by See also:Robert See also:Sandeman (see GLAS1TES), who became his son-in-law, and eventually was recognized as the See also:leader and See also:principal exponent of Glas's views; these he See also:developed in a direction which laid them open to the See also:charge of antinomianism. Ultimately in 1730 Glas returned to Dundee, where the See also:remainder of his See also:life was spent. He introduced in his church the See also:primitive See also:custom of the " osculum pacis " and the " See also:agape " celebrated as a See also:common See also:meal with broth. From this custom his congregation was known as the " kail See also:kirk." In 1739 the See also:General See also:Assembly, without any application from him, removed the See also:sentence of deposition which had been passed against him, and restored him to the See also:character and function of a minister of the See also:gospel of Christ, but not that of a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, declaring that he was not eligible for a charge until he should have renounced principles inconsistent with the constitution of the church.
A collected edition of his See also:works was published at Edinburgh in 1761 (4 vols., 8vo), and again at Perth in 1782 (5 vols., 8vo). He died in 1773.
Glas's published works See also:bear See also:witness to his vigorous mind and scholarly attainments. His reconstruction of the True Discourse of See also:Celsus (1753), from See also:Origen's reply to it, is a competent and learned piece of See also:work. The Testimony of the King of Martyrs concerning His Kingdom (1729) is a classic repudiation of erastianism and See also:defence of the spiritual See also:autonomy of the church under Jesus Christ. His common sense appears in his rejection of See also:Hutchinson's See also:attempt to prove that the See also:Bible supplies a See also:complete See also:system of See also:physical See also:science, and his shrewdness in his Notes on Scripture Texts (1747). He published a See also:volume of Christian Songs (Perth, 1784). (D.
End of Article: GLAS, JOHN (1695-1773)
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