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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...You declare, finally, that you will labor according to the ability which God may grant you, that, with the divine blessing, the students entrusted to your care may become enlightened, pious, faithful, and zealous ministers of the gospel, who shall be sound in the faith." The government of the church is Presbyterian. All ordained ministers are equal in rank and authority. Licentiates arc not pastors, or ministers, but candidates for the ministry; they cannot administer the sacraments, nor be delegates to synod, and have no vote in the classical assemblies. Each congregation is governed by its consistory or vestry, which is usually composed of elders and deacons, and of which the pastor of the church may, or may not, be a member. In chartered congregations the consistory is a legal corporation, with which the charter often joins others, besides elders and deacons, as counsellors, or trustees; and all these usually vote by The clause, at to Us substance, is stricken out in the revised constitution. custom, and by authority of the charter, on every question that comes before the body. The clergy residing within certain bounds constitute a classis, which must consist of at least three ministers. A classis meets statedly once a year, and may resolve, or be called by its president, to hold a special meeting, as often as urgent business may demand it. The president is elected annually, and presides in the meeting of classis, for the maintenance of order, as primus inter pares. Every pastoral charge is entitled to a lay delegate, who must be an elder, and has the same right to deliberate and vote in the! classis as the clerical member-A majority of the whole number, of which at least one half must be ministers, constitute a quorum; and every question is decided...

History of all the religious denominations in the United States; containing authentic accounts of the rise and progress, faith and practice, localities and statistics, of the different persuasions by Israel Daniel Rupp

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