Terrier, a formal survey and plan or schedule of Church property, ordered by English canon law to l>e made and preserved in tlie bishop's registry. A terrier of glebe lands made under queen Elizabeth is preserved in the British Exchequer.
Territorial System. This title is applied to that theory of Church government which assumes that the ruler of a country possesses, 6y virtue of his sover- eignty, the right to govern the Church, if Protestant, which iias been established within his realm.
The IMiddle Ages had witnessed a constant a.'isocia- tion of the Church with the State, which was at times carried so far as to include the one under tlie other as one of its parts. When the principles of the Jewish theocracy could be asserted, the Church would attempt to subject the State to its authority ; but when a re- lapse into heathen principles took place, the State was ready to enforce the authority of the civil power over the religion of the land. When the reformatory move- ments of the 1 5th century had failed, the renewed agi- tation, of which Zwingli, Luther, etc., were the repre- sentatives, addressed itself to the princes and estates of the land. The sovereign powers of either party as- sumed the right to dictate the creed of their subjects. The Roman Catholic prince who became a Protestant sought to carry his country with him over to Protes-
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tantism; the Lutlioran who passed over into the Re- I'oraietl Cluirch assumeil to traiisltr his siilijects also. The belier of the prince was to determine the creed of the land. The Peace of Westphalia ended this anom- alous practice, but expressly recognised the sovereignty of the prince as the source of the Jus refornntiuK.
The dangerous character of the princii)le which de- rived all the rights belonging to an evangelical Cluirch from the head of the State was soon recogniseil. and led to the development of the theory which is usually known as the ejiigciijnil system.
The territorial system was formulated at the close of the 17lh century as a foil to that theory, finding its leading advocates in Christian Thomasius (q. v.) and his pupil Hrenneisen (JJe Jure Principis circa Adia- pltma [Ilahe, 1G75], in Thomasius, /h^'c/'^e^'Wie deutscfie ^chrif/eii, Ui9(), p. 70 sq.), and its principal opponent in Johann lienedikt Carjizov (q. v.). As formulated by Thomasius, the reigning prince possesses, as a natural right, the authority to regulate the ecclesiastical af- fairs of his country, and of banishing persons who dis- turb the peace of the Church. He may dismiss a preacher who dispenses false teachings, and may for- bid the introduction of new confessions, etc. ; but he cannot impose his own creed upon his subjects, nor finally determine in matters of religion. The theory found many supporters, jurists as well as theologians, among them J. H. Bijhmer and Job. Jac. Moser (q. v.). It has been defended in quite recent times, in connec- tion with their liturgical disputes, by Mliller, Mar- heinecke, Augusti, and others. The coUer/ial systc7n deprived the territorial theory of every sn]iport ; and the present tendency towards an entire separation be- tween State and Church is wholly antagonistic to its prevalence. Both legislation and praxis have suffered from its influence to the present day.
On the entire subject, see Stahl, Kirchenverfassung nach Lehre u. Recht cl. Pt-olestanten, y). 22 sq. ; Kichter, Gesck. d. eraiiff. Kirchenverfassimg in Deuischlund, p. 212 sq.*, Friedberg, De Finihus inter Ecclesiam et Civitatem, etc. (Lips. 18tjl); Lehmann, De Pace Reliffiosa, i, 23; Nettelbladt, Oii»-f/T«^/. ./;/m Ecclesiastici (Hate, 1783, 8vo) ; the works of Thomasius, Carpzov, etc. ; Bohmer, ConsUia et Decisiones, torn, i, pars i, respons. xv. — Her- zog, Real-Encyklop. s. v. See Church and State; CoLLiiGiAL System.
Terry, Pakshalt,, a Presbyterian minister, was born at Aquebogue, Long Island, N. Y., Nov. 3, 1806 ; was licensed to preach by the Methodist Protestant Church of New Y<»rk ; preached at Aquebogue for two years; was ordained by the Congregational Convention of Long Island in 1831, and labored for a number of years at Patchogue; but, feeling the need of a more thor- ough course of theology, studied in the seminary at- tached to Yale College, graduated in 1840, and became a member of Onondaga Presbytery. In 1843 he was editor of the Religious Recorder at Syracuse, N. Y. ; in 1848 removed to Marathon, N. Y., and was received by Cortland Presbytery ; thence, in 1853, to Painesville, O., where he ministered three years. He subsequently la- bored, in 18.')7, at Unionvillp.O.; 1858, Thompson ; iSGl, Hudson; 1862, Franklin Mills; 1863, Troy. He died Oct. 20, I8(;5. He was a man of more than usual tal- ents, whicli he improved bv culture. See Wilson, P;es6. Hist. A Imomic, 18G7, p. 322*. (J. L. S.)
Ter Saiictus is the triumphal hymn of the an- cient liturgies, "Holy, holy, holy. Lord (iod of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory," etc., and is based on the three holies (Isa. vi, 3; Kev. iv, 8), In all an- cient liturgies the Ter Sanctus comes near, but before, the prayer of consecration, and is sung by the choir and the people. "The pontiff who is to celebrate ap- proaches the altar and praises the works of God, and, giving thanks for all, associates himself with the an- gels, and vociferates with them the triumphal hymn Holy, holy, holy; and the people also recite it, typify-