page_title: John Glas
section_title: Treatise
hierarchical_section_title: John Glas / Biography / Treatise
caption_attribution_description: English: The pulpit, designed by David Bryce, was installed in 1873. The Church of Christ had no central figure as minister. Services were led by elected elders and deacons. The pulpit was arranged with three seats: the deacons occupying the lowest seat with the precentor and reader above them and four elders in the top row. No baptisms, marriages or funerals were conducted as they were seen as lacking authority in Scripture.
context_page_description: John Glas was a Scottish clergyman who started the Glasite church movement.
context_section_description: This argument is most fully exhibited in a treatise entitled The Testimony of the King of Martyrs (1729). For the promulgation of these views, which were at variance with the doctrines of the national church of Scotland, he was summoned (1726) before his presbytery, where in the course of being investigated, he affirmed his belief that every national church established by the laws of earthly kingdoms is anti-Christian in its constitution and persecuting in its spirit, and further declared opinions upon the subject of church government which amounted to a repudiation of Presbyterianism and an acceptance of the puritan type of Independence.
caption: Glasite pulpit by David Bryce
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