Memoirs of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: From Its Organization Up to the Present Day: Containing, I. A Narrative of the Early Measures of the Church; II. Additional Statements and Remarks; III. An Appendix of Original Papers. By William White...Swords, Stanford, and Company, 1836 - 377 pages |
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... Lay Deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the States of New - York , New - Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware , and South - Carolina , held at Wilmington , in the State of Delaware , on Wednesday , the 11th of October , 1786 318 ...
... Lay Deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the States of New - York , New - Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware , and South - Carolina , held at Wilmington , in the State of Delaware , on Wednesday , the 11th of October , 1786 318 ...
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... lay deputies to a meeting to be held in Philadelphia , on the 27th of September in the following year . D. Although at the meeting last held , there were present two clergymen from the eastern states ; yet it now ap- peared , that there ...
... lay deputies to a meeting to be held in Philadelphia , on the 27th of September in the following year . D. Although at the meeting last held , there were present two clergymen from the eastern states ; yet it now ap- peared , that there ...
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... deputies , who must vote , when re- quired by the clerical or by the lay representation from any state , as under ... laid before the convention , and by them ordered to be recorded , evidence of that bishop's consecration ; which had ...
... deputies , who must vote , when re- quired by the clerical or by the lay representation from any state , as under ... laid before the convention , and by them ordered to be recorded , evidence of that bishop's consecration ; which had ...
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... Lay Deputies proposing others . The result was the Book of Common Prayer , as then established , and has been ever since used . Some canons had been passed in the preceding session ; but they were reconsidered and passed with sundry ...
... Lay Deputies proposing others . The result was the Book of Common Prayer , as then established , and has been ever since used . Some canons had been passed in the preceding session ; but they were reconsidered and passed with sundry ...
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... Lay Deputies . And a committee was appointed , who drew up a body of articles ; which were not acted on , but ordered to be printed on the journal , as a report of a committee of one of the houses , to lie over for the con- sideration ...
... Lay Deputies . And a committee was appointed , who drew up a body of articles ; which were not acted on , but ordered to be printed on the journal , as a report of a committee of one of the houses , to lie over for the con- sideration ...
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Page 367 - Holy Scripture containeth all things necessary to salvation: so that whatsoever is not read therein, nor may be proved thereby, is not to be required of any man, that it should be believed as an article of the Faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 368 - The condition of man, after the fall of Adam, is such, that he cannot turn and prepare himself, by his own natural strength and good works, to faith, and calling upon God : wherefore we have no power to do good works pleasant and acceptable to God, without the grace of God by Christ preventing us, that we may have a good will, and working with us, when we have that good will.
Page 368 - We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own works or deservings...
Page 370 - IT is not lawful for any man to take upon him the office of public preaching, or ministering the Sacraments in the Congregation, before he be lawfully called, and sent to execute the same. And those we ought to judge lawfully called and sent, which be chosen and called to this work by men who have public authority given unto them in the Congregation, to call and send Ministers into the Lord's vineyard.
Page 371 - The offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual ; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone.
Page 371 - Baptism is not only a sign of profession, and mark of difference, whereby Christian men are discerned from others that be not christened ; but it is also a sign of regeneration, or new birth, whereby, as by an instrument, they that receive Baptism rightly are grafted into the Church...
Page 160 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 369 - Albeit that Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith; insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 362 - For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure •offering : for my name diatt be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 360 - For as the heaven is high above the earth, So great is his mercy toward them that fear him.