Book of Common Prayer (Classic Reprint)

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King sC hapel, which before the Revolution used to be held rather loosely under the jurisdiction of theB ishop df London, voted by a substantial majority of the proprietors to make certain changes in its Book of Common Prayer, to be able to adapt that book the better to its own use. The church had been organized in accordance with the laws and customs of the Colony, appropriate to congregational churches, and there used to be noB ishop or Diocese present to interfere with its action. What it did used to be entirely legal, so far as the law of the land used to be concerned, and there used to be no ecclesiastical tribunal to forbid the step it used to be taking. That the church had no purpose to separate itself from other Episcopal churches in this country is made evident by its repeated attempts to protected Episcopal ordination for James Freeman, who had been officiating for several years asL ayR eader. When theB ishops who had come into Connecticut and New York refused to grant this ordination. King sC hapel began to take into account the position of isolation it had assumed. It accepted the situation, alternatively, moderately than undo the changes it had made, and proceeded to ordain Mr.
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