...actually adopted by the General Convention of 17S9 disclaims in its preface the intention of departing from the Church of England in any essential point of doctrine, discipline, or worship. Its variations, accordingly, are chiefly those re-quired by local circumstances or made for the purpose...

...actually adopted by the General Convention of 17S9 disclaims in its preface the intention of departing from the Church of England in any essential point of doctrine, discipline, or worship. Its variations, accordingly, are chiefly those required by local circumstances or made for the purpose...

...divines, in 1689. The preface states that, by an examination of the altered form, ' it will appear that this Church is far from intending to depart from...worship ; or further than local circumstances require, or to deviate, in anything essential, from the Thirty-nine Articles.' 27' "On the 1 7th of July, 1786,...

...prejudices, passions and fears. It formally declared in the preface to its Prayer Book that it did not intend to depart from the Church of England in any essential point of doctrine, discipline or worship. The General Convention of 1814 declared that " the Church conceives herself as professing and acting...

...and a quarter of its national and independent life, the Church in the United States has not departed from the Church of England in any essential point of doctrine, discipline, or worship, but on the contrary, it has been growing into a closer union with the mother Church, and into a deeper...

...position of the Episcopal Church is explicitly declared in the preface to the Prayer Book, which states that "this Church is far from intending to depart...essential point of doctrine, discipline, or worship." Its organization in spiritual matters is substantially the same as that of the mother Church, with...

...first foundation and long continuance of nursing care and protection to the Church of England," and that "this Church is far from intending to depart...discipline or worship, or further than local circumstances may require." Whatever, then, is the history of the Church of England in the preceding centuries is...

...Book, she nevertheless declares (in the Preface to the same Book) that " it is far from her intention to depart from the Church of England in any essential...or further than local circumstances require." the dominant conception is that our Saviour is ' Lord,' in the sense, that is, of 'Jehovah,' the Self-...

...for our civil rulers, and some other alterations were made. But it is declared that "the Church was far from intending to depart from the Church of England in any essential points of doctrine, discipline, and worship, further than local discipline should require." It is important...

...Church of England and inherits her ecclesiastical position. As the Preface to the Prayer Book states : "This Church is far from intending to depart from...worship ; or further than local circumstances require." To define her principles and position is to define Anglicanism, to interpret that movement in history...