The Centenary of the King's Chapel Liturgy: Discourse by Rev. Henry Wilder Foote and Address by Rev. James Freeman Clarke, D. D., Given in King's Chapel, Sunday, April 12, 1885 |
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Page 34 - Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
Page 21 - More especially, we pray for the good estate of the Catholic Church; that it may be so guided and governed by Thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.
Page 7 - Scriptures contain 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 faith, or be thought requisite or necessary to salvation.
Page 3 - Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
Page 25 - Ereeman, who has for some time past been their Reader, and of themselves have authorized or pretendedly authorized him to administer the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord's Supper, and at the same time most inconsistently and absurdly take to themselves the name and style of an Episcopal Church,— We, the Ministers of the Protestant Episcopal Church, whose names are underwritten...
Page 25 - Protestant Episcopal Church, whose names are underwritten, do hereby declare the proceedings of said congregation, usually meeting at the Stone Chapel in Boston, to be irregular, unconstitutional, diametrically opposite to every principle adopted in any Episcopal Church; subversive of all order and regularity, and pregnant with consequences fatal to the interests of religion. And we do hereby, and in this public manner, protest against the aforesaid proceedings, to the end that all those of our communion,...
Page 10 - Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory, through Jesus Christ, for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 25 - Church in said town, have, in an irregular and unconstitutional manner, introduced a Liturgy essentially differing from any used in the Episcopal Churches in this Commonwealth and in the United States, not to mention the Protestant Episcopal Church in general; and have also assumed to themselves a power, unprecedented in said Church, of separating to the work of the Ministry Mr. James Freeman, who has for some time past been their Reader, and of themselves have authorized or pretendedly authorized...
Page 33 - ... means of his mental integrity and powers of exposition, did the First Episcopal Church in New England, become the First Unitarian Church in the New World. I mention this not as a matter of boasting, but as an historical fact. He, our departed father, never boasted of it, or indeed of any thing which he ever did or helped to do ; and at that time the change in doctrine and service which was effected, was not certainly regarded by pastor or people as a subject of triumph, but of serious and arduous...
Page 33 - Freeman, by following the dictates of his reason and conscience, become the first preacher in this country of what we hold to be a purified Christian faith ; and thus, through the means of his mental integrity and powers of exposition, did the First Episcopal Church in New England, become the First Unitarian Church in the New World.