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Title: The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statistics. With a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Belcher, Joseph, 1794-1859
Subjects: Sects Sects Religions
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. E. Potter
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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in each State shall send deputiesto the convention, consisting of clergy and laity. 3. That the said Church shall maintain the doctrines of the Gos-pel as now held by the Church of England, and adhere to the liturgyof the said Church as far as shall be consistent with the American revo-lution and the constitution of the several States. 4. That in every State where there shall be a bishop duly conse-crated and settled, he shall be considered as a member of the conven-tion ex officio. 5. That the clergy and laity assembled in convention shall de-liberate in one body, but shall vote separately ; and the concurrenceof both shall be necessary to give validity to every measure. 6. That the first meeting of the convention shall be at Phila-delphia, the Tuesday before the feast of St. Michael next. Such were the first efforts made within this Church for visible andoutward unity. That they should be made at all bespoke the livingenergy which was dormant even in their most imperfect body: that
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fRiNiTY Church New, York. 45; Episcopalians. 457 they should have been required is a heavy charge against the motherChurch. Never had so strange a sight been seen before in Christendom,as this necessity of various members knitting themselves together intoone, by such a conscious and voluntary act. In all other cases theunity of the common Episcopate had held such limbs together ; everymember of the Church, had visibly belonged to the community of whichthe presiding bishop was the head. That bishop was himself one mem-ber of an equal and common brotherhood, all of whom, with the samecreed and in the same succession, were partners in one common powerwhich each one separately administered ; and so each member of theChurch under them belonged already to one great corporation, needingto make no voluntary alliance between its several parts, because it wasalready one; and they that were grafted into it were thereby graftedinto unity with their fellows. But this common bond had been leftwanti

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