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Probation, Ministerial

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

signifies among some English dissenters the state of a student or minister while supplying a vacant church, with a view, on their approval of his character and talents, to his taking the pastoral oversight of them.

Bibliography Information
McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Probation, Ministerial'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​p/probation-ministerial.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.