HARVARD 46*212 Philadelphia, June 7, 1815. 1 do hereby certify, that his edition of the Common Prayer Book, the Articles, Offices, and Metre Psalms and Hymns, has been duly compared with a Standard Book, and corrected, by a Presbyter of this Diocese, appointed by the Standing Committee thereof BENJAMIN DORR, President of the Standing Committee of the TABLE OF CONTENTS. 3. The Order how the Psalter is appoint- 4. The Order how the rest of the Holy Scripture is appointed to be read. 5. Tables of Lessons of Holy Scripture, 17. A Catechism; that is to say, an In- struction to be learned by every Person before he be brought to be confirmed 18. The Order of Confirmation, or Laying on of Hands upon those that are bap tized, and come to years of Discretion. 19. The Form of Solemnization of Matri- 20. The Order for the Visitation of the the Days of Fasting und Abstinence 21. The Communion of the Sick. 23. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, commonly called, The 24. Forms of Prayer to be used at Sca. THE RATIFICATION OF THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. By the Bishops, the Clergy, and the Laity of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in Convention, this Sixteenth Day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine. THIS Convention having, in their present session, set forth A Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, do hereby establish the said Book: And they declare it to be the Liturgy of this Church And require that it be received as such by all the members of the same: And this Book shall be in use from and after the First Day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety. |