The History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut: From the Settlement of the Colony to the Death of Bishop Seabury, Τόμος 1

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Hurd and Houghton, 1869 - 470 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 375 - That the Clergy and Laity, assembled in convention, shall deliberate in one body, but shall vote separately : and the concurrence of both shall be necessary to give validity to every measure.
Σελίδα 389 - ... we cannot but be extremely cautious, lest we should be the instruments of establishing an ecclesiastical system which will be called a branch of the church of England, but afterwards may possibly appear to have departed from it essentially, either in doctrine or in discipline.
Σελίδα 15 - It is evident unto all men, diligently reading Holy Scripture and ancient Authors, that from the Apostles' time there have been these Orders of Ministers in Christ's Church — Bishops, Priests, and Deacons.
Σελίδα 319 - That he would do his duty, preach and pray for the King, till the rebels cut out his tongue.
Σελίδα 164 - Bishop of a vast country, without power, or influence, or any means of promoting true religion; sequestered from the people over whom I have the care, and must never hope to see. I should be tempted to throw off all this care quite, were it not for the sake of preserving even the appearance of an Episcopal Church in the Plantations.
Σελίδα 394 - Liturgy than its own excellence, and your declared attachment to it, had led us to expect : not to mention a variety of verbal alterations, of the necessity or propriety of which we are by no means satisfied, we saw with grief that two of the Confessions of our Christian faith, respectable for their antiquity, have been entirely laid aside ; and that even in that called the Apostles...
Σελίδα 42 - Voted, That all such persons as shall hereafter be elected to the office of Rector or Tutor in this College, shall, before they are accepted therein, before the Trustees, declare their assent to the Confession of Faith, owned and assented to by the Elders and Messengers of the Churches...
Σελίδα 246 - ... till the Government is overthrown ; or liberty itself put in extreme jeopardy. We should not be worthy sons of our fathers, were we so to regard great questions affecting the general freedom. Those fathers accomplished the revolution on a strict question of principle. The...
Σελίδα 81 - rushed to hear him; even the Quakers, with their broad-brimmed hats, came and stood in the aisles," to listen to this great dignitary of the Church of England. But Dean Berkeley exerted another influence which bore more directly upon Connecticut. No sooner had his arrival in America been publicly announced than Mr. Johnson, who had read his " Principles of Human 1 " Bishop Barkley saw very little of New England, was...
Σελίδα 38 - ... our case in writing, we do (though with great reluctance, fearing the consequences of it) submit to and comply with it, and signify to you that some of us doubt the validity, and the rest are more fully persuaded of the invalidity of the Presbyterian ordination, in opposition to the Episcopal; and...

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