CHAPTER I.

their Duty

Sec. 1. Of the Origin of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Sec. 2. Articles of Religion

Sec. 3.

Sec. 4.

Of the General and Annual Conferences

Of the Election and Consecration of Bishops and of

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Sec. 5.

Of the Presiding Elders, and of their Duty

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Sec. 6.

Of the Election and Ordination of travelling Elders,

and of their Duty

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Sec. 7. Of the Election and Ordination of travelling Dea-
cons, and of their Duty

Sec. 8. Of the Method of receiving travelling preachers, and

of their Duty

Sec. 9. Of the Duties of those who have the charge of Cir-

cuits

Sec. 10. Of the Trial of those who think they are moved by
the Holy Ghost to preach

Sec. 11. Of the matter and manner of Preaching, and of
other public exercises

Sec. 12. Of the Duty of Preachers to God, themselves, and

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one another

Rules by which we should continue, or desist from
preaching at any place

Of visiting from house to house; guarding against
those things that are so common to Professors,
and enforcing Practical Religion

Sec. 15. Of the instruction of Children

Sec. 16. Of employing our time profitably when we are not
travelling, or engaged in public exercises
Of the necessity of union among ourselves
Of the method by which immoral travelling Minis-
ters or Preachers shall be brought to Trial, found
guilty, and reproved or suspended in the intervals
of the Conferences

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Sec. 19. How to provide for the Circuits in time of Confer-
ence, aud to preserve and increase the work oʻ
God

Sec. 23. Of Public Worship

Sec. 24. Of the Spirit and Truth of Singing

CHAPTER II.

Sec. 1. The nature, design, and general rules of our United

Societies.

Sec. 2. Of Class Meetings

Sec. 3. Of the Band Societies

Sec. 4. Of the privileges granted to serious persons who are

not of our Church

Sec. 5. Of Marriage

Sec. 6. Of Dress

Sec. 7. Of bringing to Trial, finding Guilty, and reproving,
suspending, or excluding disorderly persons from
Society and Church privileges

Sec. 8. Of the sale and use of spirituous liquors

CHAPTER III.

Sacramental Services, &c.

Sec. 1. The Order for the administration of the Lord's

Supper

Sec. 2. The administration of Baptism to infants

The ministration of Baptism to such as are of
riper years

Sec. 3. The form of solemnization of Matrimony
Sec. 4. The order of the Burial of the Dead

CHAPTER IV.

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The form and manner of making and ordaining Bishops

Elders, and Deacons.

Sec. 1. The form and manner of making Deacons
Sec. 2. The form and manner of ordaining Elders
Sec. 3. The form of ordaining a Bishop

PART SECOND.

Sec. 1. Of the boundaries of the Annual Conferences, &c. 151
Sec. 2. Of building Churches, and the order to be observed

therein

Sec. 3 Of the qualifications, appointment, and duty of the

Sec. 4. Of the allowance to the Ministers and Preachers,
and to their Wives, Widows, and Children
Sec. 5. Of raising annual supplies for the Propagation of
the Gospel, for the making up the allowance of
the Preachers, &c

Sec. 6. Of the Chartered Fund
Sec. 7. Of the Printing and Circulating of Books, and of

the Profits arising therefrom

Sec. 8. Local Preachers to have an allowance in given cases
Sec. 9. Of Slavery

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