...WILLIAM WHITE, Prefident. Attejl. DAVID GRIFFITH, Secretary. OF A CONVENTION OF THE Proteftant Epifcopal Church IN THE STATES OF NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA,...DELAWARE, MARYLAND, VIRGINIA, AND SOUTH CAROLINA; ' HELD IN CHRIST CHURC H, IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, FROM JUNE aoth to 26th, 1786. I OF THE Members of the...

...lv'. be. " Free and (Jnudid Disquisitions," 8ro. 2d Ed. 1750, p. 277. " Book of Common Prayer, &c. as revised and proposed to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church." Philadelphia printed, London reprinted, 12mo. 1789. See the Preface. This Episcopal Church has retained...

...particularize, I can explain from publications now before me. One is, " The Book of Common Prayer, &c. as revised and proposed to the Use of the Protestant...Episcopal Church, at a Convention of the said Church iu the States of New York, &c. Held in Philadelphia, 1785." Reprinted, London, 1789- In this booh,...

...consequence of the said recommendation and proposal, clerical and lay deputies have been duly appointed from the said church in the states of New York, New Jersey,...Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina: The said deputies being now assembled, and taking into consideration the importance of maintaining...

...England. MOST WORTHY AND VENERABLE PRELATES, We, the clerical and lay deputies of the Protestant Episcopal church in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina, have received the friendly and affectionate letter which your lordships did us the honour to write...

...Church was held at Philadelphia in September, 1785. It consisted of clerical and lay delegates from the states of New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina. By this convention, the thirty-nine articles were reduced to twenty; the Athanasian and Nicene creeds...

...propriety that you could possibly wish on the occasion f." The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,...Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, was in the mean time opened on the 2 1st of June, when an appropriate sermon was delivered in Christ...

...ayes and nays being taken, it was determined in the negative." See " the Book of Common Prayer, &c. as revised, and proposed to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church, at a Convention held in Philadelphia, 1785;" Lond. (1789) passim; " Journals of Conventions," annexed to " Observations...

...lament their overthrow." In the year 1784 the clerical and lay deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Suuth Carolina, addressed the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England, on the subject of obtaining...

...overthrow." In the year 1784 the clerical and lay deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church in tbe States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina, addressed the Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England, on the subject of obtaining from tliem...