CODE OF CANONS OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1。 SCOTLAND, DRAWN UP AND ENACTED BY AN Ecclesiastical Synod, HOLDEN FOR THAT PURPOSE AT ABERDEEN, ON THE XIXTH AND M.DCCC.XI ABERDEEN: PRINTED BY D. CHALMERS AND CO. 1811. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. CANON I For preserving the Episcopal Succession. Appointing the solemn performance of the Of- CANON IX. Requiring from Persons to be ordained Subscrip- Requiring Soberness of Conversation, and De- cency of Apparel, in Ecclesiastical Persons, CANON XV. Respecting the Communion Service, as the most XVI. Appointing Confirmation to be administered in every Diocese once in three years; and the Requiring due Intimation, and Preparation to be made for the Holy Communion. CANON XXIV. A Form of Subscription to the Thirty-nine Ar- No. III. The Form of Subscription promising Obedience A Form of Testimonial for Institution to a Pasto- ral Charge, to be subscribed by three or more Episcopal Clergymen. No. VI. A Form of Institution to a Pastoral Charge. No. VII. 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 INTRODUCTION. RELIGION, implying the obligation which we lie under to the service of God, must be of divine Institution; because God alone can tell how he will be worshipped 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 his 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 A seventy |