The History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, from the Settlement of the Colony to the Death of Bishop Seabury, Nide 1

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Hurd and Houghton, 1866
 

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Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 39 - They are the most of them reputed men of considerable learning, and all of them of a virtuous and blameless conversation. I apprehend the axe is hereby laid to the root of our civil and sacred enjoyments; and a doleful gap opened for trouble and confusion in our churches. The churchmen among us are wonderfully encouraged and lifted up by the appearance of these gentlemen on their side. And how many more will, by their example, be encouraged to go off from us to them, God only knows. It is a very...
Sivu 319 - That he would do his duty, preach and pray for the King, till the rebels cut out his tongue.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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.
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 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...
Sivu 81 - All sects rushed to hear him ; even the Quakers, with their broad-brimmed hats, came and stood in the aisles. In one of his sermons he very emphatically said, ' Give the devil his due — John Calvin was a great man.

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