IIOLDEN FOR THAT PURPOSE AT ABERDEEN, ON THE XIXTH AND M.DCCC.XI, ABERDEEN: PRINTED BY D. CHALMERS AND CO. 1811. CONTENT S. INTRODUCTION. CANON IX. Requiring from Persons to be ordained Subscrip- tion of the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and other assurances of Loyalty and Obe- dience. Regulating the Election and Office of the Primus. Appointing the proper Institution to a Pastoral Por providing vacant Districts with duly elected CANON XI. Requiring Presbyters to make personal residence in the place where their Pastoral Charge lies; and not to be absent but for a limited time. Regulating the jurisdiction of the Bishops in a Requiring Soberness of Conversation, and De- For holding, and regulating the business of Ec cency of Apparel, in Ecclesiastical Persons, as well as a proper attention to the good order Enjoining the studies, and qualifications necessary in the Candidates for Holy Orders. Pointing out the proper Clerical Studies, and other assistances to be derived from Meetings Respecting the age, the prudence, the place or charge, of Persons to be ordained : and in what case Letters Dimissory are necessary. Regulating the times and public Assemblies for Appointing the solemn performance of the Of- CANON XY. XVI. (ir ) Pointing out what uniformity is to be observed | Appointing Confirmation to be administered in in the ordinary parts of the Morning and erery Diocese once in three years; and the care to be taken, that due preparation be made Enjoining all due reverence and attention in time Respecting the Solemnization of Matrimony. Respecting the Visitation of the Sick, and the Requiring due Intimation, and Preparation to be Notorious Offenders not to be admitted to the Respecting the Administration of the Sacrament Requiring the Clergy of this Church to continue Requiring a regular course of Catechising in all A Form of Letters Testimonial for Holy Orders, The Form of a Deed of Presentation to a Pastoral to be subscribed by three or more Episcopal A Form of Testimonial for Institution to a Pasto- ral Charge, to be subscribed by three or more A Form of Subscription to the Thirty-nine Ar-| Episcopal Clergymen. A Form of Institution to a Pastoral Charge. The Form of Subscription promising Obedience to the Canons. Recommendation of the proper Clerical Habit. CODE THE CODE OF CANONS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN SCOTLAND, DRAWN UP, AND ENACTED BY AN ECCLESIASTICAL SYNOD HOLDEN FOR THAT PURPOSE, AT ABERDEEN, ON THE XIXT, AND XXTH DAYS OF JUNE, IN THE YEAR M.D.CCC.XI. INTRODUCTION. RELIGION, implying the obligation which we lie under to the service of God, must be of divine Institution : beranse God alone can tell how he will be worshippes and served by his creatures. Having revealed his will for this purpose, he has also from the beginning constituted, and set apart certain persons, to act as bis more immediate Servants, or Officers; and in that official relation to assist mankind in the performance of their religious duties. That this was the case under the Patriarchal and Mosaic Institutions, is evident from the history of both contained in the Old Testament; and that the case is the same under the Dispensation of the Gospel, is no less manifest from the account which the New Testament gives of the Establishment of the Christian Church. It is there recorded for our instruction, that our blessed Saviour, the Author, and Finisher of our Faith, and the Head over all things to his Church, when he had “ called his Disciples unto him, chose twelve of them;" whom he was pleased to distinguish by the title of “ Apostles,” or persons sent with a particular Commission to preach the Gospel ; and with power to work miracles for evincing the authority with which they were vested. The appointment afterwards of other seventy |
