Documentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Volume 2Lambert Lilly, William Stevens Perry J. Pott, 1864 |
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able ABRAHAM JARVIS acquaint alterations America appointed Archbishop Archbishop of Canterbury Archbishop of York ARTHUR PETRIE attend baptized beg leave BELA HUBBARD Bishop of Connecticut Bishop Provoost Bishop Seabury Bishop White blessing brethren Christ Christian Church of England Churchmen Clergy of Connecticut Clergymen Colony communion congregation consecration Convention copacy copy dear Sir desire dissenters Divine doctrine duty ecclesiastical endeavours Episcopacy Episcopal Church esteem families favour friends gentlemen give Grace hath Hebron Holy holy orders honour hope humble Servant Jarvis Laity land late letter Liturgy London Lord Malbone Massachusetts matter meeting miles minister Mission Missionary obedient obliged opinion ordination parish Parker peace persons Philadelphia pious Prayer Book preached Presbyters present proposed received religion religious request respect Reverend Right Rev Samuel Parker Samuel Seabury Scotland Seabury's Secretary-Extract Society's Stratford Symsbury thing tion town union venerable Society wish worship worthy York
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Page 279 - Church. 1 have no idea of aggrandizing the clergy at the expense of the laity; nor indeed of aggrandizing them at all. Decent means of living is all they have a right to expect. But I cannot conceive that the laity can, with any propriety, be admitted to sit in judgment on bishops and presbyters ; especially when deposition may be the event ; because they cannot take away a character which they cannot confer.
Page 347 - Diocese shall nevertheless be considered as duly represented by such deputy or deputies as may attend, whether Lay or Clerical. And if, through the neglect of the Convention of any of the Churches which shall have adopted, or may hereafter adopt this Constitution, no...
Page 341 - Prcvoost be. and they hereby are requested to join with the Right Rev. Dr. Seabury, in complying with the prayer of the Clergy of the states of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, for the consecration of the Rev. Edward Bass, Bishop elect of the Churches in the said States...
Page 282 - A Bishop is a Minister of God, unto whom, with permanent, continuance, there is given, not only power of administering the Word and Sacraments, which power other Presbyters have; but also a further power to ordain Ecclesiastical persons, and a power of chiefty in government over Presbyters as well as Laymen, a power to be by way of jurisdiction a Pastor even to Pastors themselves.
Page 341 - That the said three Bishops are fully competent to every proper act and duty of the Episcopal office and character in these United States, as well in respect to the consecration 'of other Bishops, and the ordering of Priests and Deacons, as for the government of the Church, according to such rules, canons and institutions, as now are, or hereafter may be duly made and ordained by the Church in that case.
Page 250 - Eucharistick service, in which the Scottish Bishops so earnestly wish for as much unity as possible, Bishop Seabury also agrees to take a serious view of the Communion Office recommended by them, and if found agreeable to the genuine standards of antiquity, to give his sanction to it, and by gentle methods of argument and persuasion, to endeavour, as they have done, to introduce it by degrees into practice, without the compulsion of authority on the one side, or the prejudice of former custom on...
Page 347 - I agree with you, that there may be a strong and efficacious union between churches, where the usages are different. I see not why it may not be so in the present case, as soon as you have removed those obstructions which, while they remain, must prevent all possibility of uniting. The Church of Connecticut consists, at present, of nineteen clergymen in...
Page 331 - Body," etc., which words are not consecration at all, nor were they addressed by Christ to the Father, but were declarative to the Apostles. This is so exactly symbolizing with the Church of Rome in an error; — an error, too, on which the absurdity of Transubstantiation is built, — that nothing but having fallen into the same error, themselves, could have prevented the enemies of the Church from casting it in her teeth. The efficacy of Baptism, of Confirmation, of Orders, is ascribed to the Holy...
Page 29 - Truth to discern the error of their ways, and to return to the fold which they have forsaken. But their unhappy trespass will, surely, read a lesson of seasonable warning to each of us, and remind us that we cannot with impunity pour contempt upon the Church of our baptism, in which we have grown in grace and in the saving knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ...
Page 250 - Offices with those persons, who under pretence of ordination by an English, or Irish Bishop, do, or shall take upon them to officiate as Clergymen in any part of the National Church of Scotland, and whom the Scottish Bishops cannot help looking upon as schismatical Intruders, designed only to answer worldly purposes and uncommissioned Disturbers of the poor Remains of that once flourishing Church, which both their predecessors, and they have under many difficulties, laboured to preserve pure and...