...Church of — - England, or suffered to execute any of the said ffunctions, except he be called, tryed, examined, and admitted thereunto, according to the...following, or hath had formerly Episcopal! Consecration, or Ordinationi And none shall be admitted a Deacon, except he be twenty three yeares of age, unless he...

...reverently used and esteemed, in the United Church of England and Ireland, no man shall be accounted and taken to be a lawful Bishop, Priest, or Deacon in...had formerly Episcopal Consecration or Ordination." — Preface to Ordinal; Book of Common Prayer. The Church's testimony to the Divine Origin of Episcopacy...

...viz., ' No man shall be accounted or taken for a lawful Bishop, Priest, or Deacon, except he be called according to the form hereafter following, or hath had formerly Episcopal Consecration or Ordination.'8 Here it is evident that 8 The words in the Preface to the Ordinal, in 1552, were these...

...shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful Bishop, ' Priest, or Deacon in the Church of England, 1 or suffered to ' execute any of the said functions,...examined and admitted thereunto, according to the form here' after following, or hath had formerly Episcopal Consecration, ' or Ordination.' All this Dr....

...Church, no man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful Bishop, priest, or deacon, in this Church, or suffered to execute any of the said functions,...according to the form hereafter following, or hath had Episcopal Consecration or Ordination. HOOKER, Ecc. Pol. VII. vi. 3. The power of ordaining both deacons...

...priest : " No man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful bishop, priest, or deacon in this Church, or suffered to execute any of the said functions,...according to the form hereafter following, or hath had Episcopal consecration or ordination." And I, moreover, forbid you to officiate in the diocese of New...

...Church — Bishops, priests and deacons.' Also, that no man shall be accounted a lawful Bishop, &c., ' except he be called, tried, examined, and admitted...had formerly episcopal consecration or ordination.' The man who holds this may be an honest episcopalian without the least tinge of popery. And the Church...

...priest, or deacon, in the united Church of England and Ireland (as being a part of the Church of Christ), except he be called, tried, examined, and admitted...had formerly Episcopal consecration or ordination." Words cannot more fully express her decided conviction on the subject of the Episcopal succession ;...

...it may be asked — has our Church determined (in the Preface to the Book of Ordination, &c.) that " no man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful...had formerly Episcopal consecration, or ordination ?"* Why is Episcopal ordination thus made necessary for ministering in the Anglican communion, if the...

...United Church of England and Ireland ; no man shall be accounted or taken to be a lawful Bishop, B Priest, or Deacon in the United Church of England...had formerly Episcopal Consecration, or Ordination. And none shall be admitted a Deacon, except he be Twenty-three years of age, unless he have a Faculty....