...are recognized as such in the preface to the Book of Common Prayer, which uses this language: "But when in the course of Divine Providence, " these American States became independent with re" spect to civil government, their ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included; and the...

...time ; and the Civil Authority has not since thought proper to revive it by any new commission. But when in the course of Divine Providence, these American...liberty to model and organize their respective Churches, anc! forms of worship, and discipline, in sucii manner as they might judge most convenient for their...

...national church. The language of the preface of our American prayer-book correctly expresses the fact : " When in the course of Divine Providence these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included." The unity of the faith had not been affected by this civil change : in doctrine, in discipline, in...

...to which I refer, is this : ' But when, in the co ur so of divine Providence, these American Stales became independent with respect to civil government,...independence was necessarily included ; and the different religioui denominations ofChristians in these States were left at full and equal liberty to model and...

...substantially as we now have it, and taken almost entirely from the English Prayer Book, came into use. Thus " when in the course of Divine Providence these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included ; but," continues the Preface to the Prayer Book, " this Church is far from intending to depart from...

...pen of Dr. Smith himself, and published in 1789, in the preface to our Book of Common Prayer, that " when, in the course of Divine Providence, these American...civil government, their ecclesiastical independence waa necessarily included ;" a position true, it may be admitted, in view of the union of the Church...

...national Church. The language of the preface of our American prayerbook correctly expresses the fact: "When in the course of Divine Providence these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included." The unity of the faith had not been affected by this civil change; in doctrine, in discipline, in worship,...

...our fathers, and expressed in their own language in the preface to our Book of Common Prayer, that, "When, in the course of Divine Providence, these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included." We may then, in this connection, seek to emphasize the historic statement, that in Christ Church, Philadelphia,...

...time; and the Civil Authority has not since thought proper to revive it hy any new commission. But when in the course of Divine Providence, these American...Churches, and forms of worship, and discipline, in such miunier as they might judge most convenient for their future prosperity; consistently with the constitution...

...petition as above mentioned." in their language in the preface to our book of Common Prayer, that li When, in the course of Divine Providence, these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included." We may, then, in this connection, seek to emphasize the historic statement that in Christ Church, Philadelphia,...