The General Ecclesiastical Constitution of the American Church; Its History and Rationale (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: formity, the adoption of the fourth article of the proposed Constitution of 1785 would simply have enjoined that obligation, unchanged and unchangable, on the American Church for all time to come. We cannot wonder, then, at the hesitancy of the members of the Convention to adopt this article to which Bishop White alludes. Arguments were now offered in favor of a review, notic- ably on account of the archaic expressions, that required adaptation to our present use of language, and also in view of the fact "that there were some matters universally held exceptionable independently of doctrine." And so it happened that "a moderate review," as Bishop White tells us, "fell in with the sentiments and wishes of every member." There grew up a persuasion in the minds of the deputies that the result would be generally acceptable to the Church at large; and thus, in spite of the lack of authority, the Convention entered upon the work of revision. William White was not a member of the sub-committee by whom these alterations inthe Prayer Book were proposed and reported to the Convention. He is careful to inform us in his Memoirs of the Church that "when brought into committee they were not reconsidered, because the ground would have to be gone over again in Convention." We have, therefore, no detailed history of what Bishop White calls "the preparatory stage of the business." Even in the Convention, we are told by the same authority, "there were but few points canvassed with any material difference of principle." These "few points" we proceed to notice. A motion of Mr. Page of Virginia proposed the omission of the first four petitions of the litany, and the introduction instead of "a short petition which he had drawn up, more agreeable to his ideas of the Divine persons recognized in ...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: formity, the adoption of the fourth article of the proposed Constitution of 1785 would simply have enjoined that obligation, unchanged and unchangable, on the American Church for all time to come. We cannot wonder, then, at the hesitancy of the members of the Convention to adopt this article to which Bishop White alludes. Arguments were now offered in favor of a review, notic- ably on account of the archaic expressions, that required adaptation to our present use of language, and also in view of the fact "that there were some matters universally held exceptionable independently of doctrine." And so it happened that "a moderate review," as Bishop White tells us, "fell in with the sentiments and wishes of every member." There grew up a persuasion in the minds of the deputies that the result would be generally acceptable to the Church at large; and thus, in spite of the lack of authority, the Convention entered upon the work of revision. William White was not a member of the sub-committee by whom these alterations inthe Prayer Book were proposed and reported to the Convention. He is careful to inform us in his Memoirs of the Church that "when brought into committee they were not reconsidered, because the ground would have to be gone over again in Convention." We have, therefore, no detailed history of what Bishop White calls "the preparatory stage of the business." Even in the Convention, we are told by the same authority, "there were but few points canvassed with any material difference of principle." These "few points" we proceed to notice. A motion of Mr. Page of Virginia proposed the omission of the first four petitions of the litany, and the introduction instead of "a short petition which he had drawn up, more agreeable to his ideas of the Divine persons recognized in ...

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General Books LLC

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February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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98

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978-0-217-58355-8

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9780217583558

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0-217-58355-5



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