Canons for the Government of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America: Being the Substance of Various Canons Adopted in General Conventions of Said Church, Held in the Years of Our Lord 1789, 1792, 1795, 1799, 1801, and 1804, and Set Forth with Alterations and Additions, in General Convention A.D. 1808; Together with the Canons Passed in General Conventions in the Years of Our Lord 1811, 1814, 1817 1820, 1821, and 1823. To which are Annexed the Constitution of the Said Church, and the Course of Ecclesiastical Studies Established by the House of Bishops in the General Convention of 1804

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T. and J. Swords, 1825 - 48 páginas

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Página 3 - I do believe the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the word of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation ; and I do solemnly engage to conform to the doctrines and worship of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.
Página 6 - We, whose names are underwritten, fully sensible how important it is that the sacred office of a Bishop should not be unworthily conferred, and firmly persuaded that it is our duty to bear testimony on this solemn occasion, without partiality or affection, do, in the presence of Almighty God, testify that...
Página 14 - Agreeably to the practice of the primitive Church, the stated times of ordination shall be on the Sundays following the Ember Weeks ; viz. the second Sunday in Lent, the Feast of Trinity, and the Sundays after the Wednesdays following the 14th day of September and the 13th of December.
Página 27 - Lord's Day, commonly called Sunday, and other holy-days, according to God's holy will and pleasure and the orders of the Church of England prescribed in that behalf; that is, in hearing the Word of God read and taught ; in private and public prayers; in acknowledging their offences to God, and amendment of the same; in reconciling...
Página 18 - Diocese where there is a Bishop, the Standing Committee shall be a council of advice to the Bishop. They shall be summoned on the requisition of the Bishop, whenever he shall wish for their advice. And they may meet of their own accord, and agreeably to their own rules, when they may be disposed to advise the Bishop.
Página 36 - SECT. 2. The evidence of the consent of the different Standing Committees shall be in the form prescribed for the House of Clerical and Lay Deputies in General Convention; and without the aforesaid requisites no consecration shall take place during the recess of the General Convention.
Página 3 - ... and every bishop of this church shall confine the exercise of his episcopal office to his proper diocese*, unless requested to ordain or confirm, or perform any other act of the episcopal office by any church destitute of a bishop.
Página 4 - ... the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, articles of religion, and a form and manner of making, ordaining and consecrating bishops, priests and deacons, when established by this or a future General Convention, shall be used in the Protestant Episcopal Church in those dioceses which shall have adopted this Constitution.
Página 26 - State ; it is hereby determined and declared that all such unions shall be considered as irregular and void; and that every congregation of this Church, shall be considered as belonging to the body of the Church of the diocese...
Página 7 - ... partiality or affection, do, in the presence of Almighty God, testify, that AB is not, so far as we are informed, justly liable to evil report, either for error in religion or for viciousness of life ; and that we do not know or believe there is any impediment on account of which he ought not to be consecrated to that holy office ; but that he hath, as we believe, led his life for three years last past, piously, soberly, and honestly.

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