...authority in Great Britain hath not since thought it proper to revive it by any new commission. But when, in the course of divine providence, these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included ; and the different religious denominations of chrisiians in these states were left at full and equal...

...Liberiaa clergy present:— ' Whereas, when in the course of Divine Providence these Liberian settlements became independent, with respect to civil government,...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included, so that the different religious denominations of Christians in them were left at full liberty to model...

...Liberian clergy present : Whereas, when in the course of Divine Providence these Liberian settlements became independent, with respect to civil government,...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included, so that the different religious denominations of Christians in them were left at full liberty to model...

...and Laity of the South, and the Clergy of Liberia, or the writer in the Church Journal : — ' But when, in the course of Divine Providence, these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included; and the different religious denominations of Christians in these States were left at full and equal...

...only states a fact about our own Church without announcing any general principle. The words arc : ' When, in the course of Divine Providence, these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included.' Surely the necessity must have been the consequence of u principle : — the principle, which I hold...

...time ; and tne Civil Authority has not since thought proper to revive it by any new Commission. But I came out from God. I ca ne forth from the Father,...composed; which could not be taken, unless this beholdin and the different religious denominations of Christians in these States were left at full and equal...

...revised prayer | of 1789 : " Whereas, in the preface to the Book of Common Prayer, it is stated that when in the course of Divine Providence these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included ; and that thereafter the attention of the Church was first dratvn to those alterations in the Liturgy...

...England. In putting forth its " Book of Common Prayer " in 1789, the convention of that church said, " When, in the course of Divine Providence, these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included;" and hence the convention had set out to model the church and its forms " consistently with the constitution...

...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...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included ; and the different religious denominations of Christians in these States were left at full and equal...

...of England for her first foundation and a long continuance of nursing care and protection. . . . But when, in the course of Divine Providence, these American...ecclesiastical independence was necessarily included ; and the different religious denominations of Christians in these States were left at full and equal...