CODE OF CANONS

OF THE

EPISCOPAL CHURCH

1。

SCOTLAND,

DRAWN UP AND ENACTED BY AN

Ecclesiastical Synod,

HOLDEN FOR THAT PURPOSE AT ABERDEEN, ON THE XIXTH AND
XXTH DAYS OF JUNE, IN THE YEAR

M.DCCC.XI

ABERDEEN:

PRINTED BY D. CHALMERS AND CO.

1811.

CONTENTS.

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CANON XVI.

(iv)

Pointing out what uniformity is to be observed

in the ordinary parts of the Morning and

Evening Service.

CANON XVIL

CANON XXI.

Appointing Confirmation to be administered in

every Diocese once in three years; and the

care to be taken, that due preparation be made

for that solemn Service.

CANON XXII.

Enjoining all due reverence and attention in time Respecting the Solemnization of Matrimony.

of Divine Service.

CANON XVIII.

Requiring due Intimation, and Preparation to be

made for the Holy Communion.

CANON XIX.

Respecting the Administration of the Sacrament

of Baptism.

CANON XXIII.

Respecting the Visitation of the Sick, and the

Burial of the Dead.

CANON XXIV.

Notorious Offenders not to be admitted to the

Communion.

CANON XXV.

Requiring the Clergy of this Church to continue.

in their sacred Profession.

CANON XX.

CANON XXVI.

Requiring a regular course of Catechising in all Declaring what Censure, or spiritual penalty,

Congregations.

is to be incurred by a breach of these Canons.

No. I.

APPENDIX.

No. IV.

A Form of Letters Testimonial for Holy Orders,

to be subscribed by three or more Episcopal

Clergymen.

No. II.

A Form of Subscription to the Thirty-nine Ar-
ticles of Religion.

No. III.

The Form of Subscription promising Obedience
to the Canons.

The Form of a Deed of Presentation to a Pastoral

Charge.

No. V.

A Form of Testimonial for Institution to a Pasto-

ral Charge, to be subscribed by three or more

Episcopal Clergymen.

No. VI.

A Form of Institution to a Pastoral Charge.

No. VII.

Recommendation of the proper Clerical Habit.

CODE

THE

CODE OF CANONS

OF THE

EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND,

DRAWN UP, AND ENACTED BY AN ECCLESIASTICAL SYNOD HOLDEN FOR THAT
PURPOSE, AT ABERDEEN, ON THE XIXTH AND XXTH DAYS OF JUNE,
IN THE YEAR M.D.CCC.XI.

INTRODUCTION.

RELIGION, implying the obligation which we lie under to

the service of God, must be of divine Institution; because God alone can tell how he will be worshipped and served by his creatures. Having revealed his will for this purpose, he has also from the beginning constituted, and set apart certain persons, to act as his more immediate Servants, or Officers; and in that official relation to assist mankind in the performance of their religious duties. That this was the case under the Patriarchal and Mosaic Institutions, is evident from the history of both contained in the Old Testament; and that the case is the same under the Dispensation of the Gospel, is no less manifest from the account which the New Testament gives of the Establishment of the Christian Church. It is there recorded for our instruction, that our blessed Saviour, the Author, and Finisher of our Faith, and the Head over all things to his Church, when he had " called his Disciples unto him, chose twelve of them;" whom he was pleased to distinguish by the title of "Apostles," or persons sent with a particular Commission to preach the Gospel; and with power to work miracles for evincing the authority with which they were vested. The appointment afterwards of other

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