Journals of the General Conventions of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in the United States of America, from A.D. 1785 to A.D. 1853, Inclusive, Volume 1 |
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Page 1
... England . The Letter to the English Prelates . The original Draft , as proposed by Mr. Francis Hopkinson . The Conditions proposed by the Archbishops and Bishops . The adjourned meeting at Wilmington , Delaware . Dr. Griffith's ab ...
... England . The Letter to the English Prelates . The original Draft , as proposed by Mr. Francis Hopkinson . The Conditions proposed by the Archbishops and Bishops . The adjourned meeting at Wilmington , Delaware . Dr. Griffith's ab ...
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... England and America . Characteristic letters from Dr. Peters to Rev. Dr. Parker and others . His Pastoral Epistle . Failure of his applica tion . Dr. Henry Purcell and his " Strictures of the Love of Power in the Prelacy . " The ...
... England and America . Characteristic letters from Dr. Peters to Rev. Dr. Parker and others . His Pastoral Epistle . Failure of his applica tion . Dr. Henry Purcell and his " Strictures of the Love of Power in the Prelacy . " The ...
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... England again for a continuance of the Succession . Application of the Convention to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel , in England , for the Church lands in Vermont . Action on the subject of Lay Baptism . The second ...
... England again for a continuance of the Succession . Application of the Convention to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel , in England , for the Church lands in Vermont . Action on the subject of Lay Baptism . The second ...
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... England ; and shall adhere to the Liturgy of the said Church , as far as shall be consistent with the American Revolution and the Constitu- tions of the respective States . V. That in every State where there shall be a Bishop duly ...
... England ; and shall adhere to the Liturgy of the said Church , as far as shall be consistent with the American Revolution and the Constitu- tions of the respective States . V. That in every State where there shall be a Bishop duly ...
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... England for that purpose . The Rev. Dr. Smith from the Committee for revising , etc. , reported that they had made further progress in the business referred to them , but not having finished the same , desired leave to sit again , which ...
... England for that purpose . The Rev. Dr. Smith from the Committee for revising , etc. , reported that they had made further progress in the business referred to them , but not having finished the same , desired leave to sit again , which ...
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Popular passages
Page 421 - 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 415 - 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 shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 20 - 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.
Page 396 - Dominions ; that all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours, upon the best and surest foundations, that peace and happiness, truth and justice, religion and piety, may be established among us for all generations.
Page 398 - ... through our Lord Jesus Christ ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, •whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.
Page 422 - 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 398 - Dost thou believe all the Articles of the Christian Faith, as contained in the Apostles
Page 399 - WITH this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow: In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Page 204 - Of the Lord's Supper. The Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves one to another; but rather it is a Sacrament of our Redemption by Christ's death: insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith, receive the same, the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ; and likewise...
Page 422 - 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, arid 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.