Excerpt from Report of Proceedings of the First General Presbyterian Council: Convened at Edinburgh, July 1877, With Relative Documents, Bearing on the Affairs of the Council, and the State of the Presbyterian Churches Throughtout the World A few years later, the authors of the Second Book of Discipline, in Scotland, after enumerating the various assemblies or courts proper to the Presbyterian Church within any country, added There is besides these, another more general kind of Assembly, which is of all nations and estates of persons within the Kirk, representing the universal Kirk of Christ, which may be called properly the General Assembly, or General Council of the whole Kirk of God. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.