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PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.

New-York, September 30, 1831.

I hereby certify, that this edition of the Common Prayer Book, Book of Offices, &c., having been compared with a standard Book, and corrected by the same, is permitted to be published as an edition duly compared and corrected by a suitable person appointed for that purpose, as the canon directs.

BENJAMIN T. ONDERDONK, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Cha in the State of New-York

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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 16th 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 o thousand seven hundred and ninety.

GENERAL LIBRARY

OF

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN.

PRESENTED BY

Daughters of Dr. Munster for

ty wherewith Christ hath is and usages may without aith be kept entire; and termined to belong to Doeby common consent and nended, or otherwise disertification of the people, .. occasions."

tant Episcopal Church in Foundation and a long conhe Preface of her Book of The Particular Forms of pointed to be used therein, alterable, and so acknow. important considerations, occasions, such changes those who are in places of

necesary or expedient."

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Alterations hath been, as nt which, according to her vation of peace and unity exciting of piety and decutting off occasion, from inst her Liturgy." Anu any thing in it contrary ich a godly man may not ch is not fairly defensible, , as, in common equity, on the principles already or alteration would in time for a review was issued in scarried at that time; and revive it by any new Com

These American States be t, their Ecclesiastical In Terent religious denomina. full and equal liberty to it forms of worship and nost convenient for their tion and Lawe of their

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