Description: [Ebay3] CHARGE TO THE CLERGY OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF VIRGINIA, ON THE SUBJECT OF DISCIPLINE. DEAR BRETHREN:- By the 27th Canon of our General Convention it is declared to be proper, that every Bishop shall, at least once in three years, deliver a charge to the clergy of his Diocese, besides pastoral letters to the people of the same. Although but two years have elapsed since 1 endeavored to perform this duty, I yet deem it expedient to address you at this time; and if an excuse were needed for seeming to do a work of supererogation, it might be found in this, among other facts, that an interval of five years was permitted to intervene between the two last charges. SECTION I.-INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. The subject to which I invite your attention at this time, is the exercise of discipline, according to the rubrics and canons of the Church, in the congregations committed to your care. Whatever assistance you may have from those who are over you in the Lord, or from some of those over whom you are in the Lord, nevertheless on you, according to God's word, the practice of the Church in all ages, and from the nature of your office, this duty and responsibility mainly, nay, almost entirely rests. Wherefore, at the time of your elevation to the second grade of the ministry, when you are permitted to take full charge of a congregation, having purchased to yourselves a good degree, by performing the office of a deacon well, you are publicly, and in the most solemn manner, required by the Bishop, in the prescribed service, to promise that you "will give your faithful diligence, always so to
Price: 19.99 USD
Location: Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
End Time: 2024-12-30T11:42:47.000Z
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Conflict: Civil War (1861-65)
Original/Reproduction: Original
Theme: Militaria
