OXFORD, PRINTED BY W. BAXTER, FOR J. PARKER; AND C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S 1829. He has wrought, the grace He has offered, the life and immortality He has in mercy brought to light. So shall your youth be honoured in true sobriety of mind by the esteem of good men, the approbation of conscience, the favourable regard of your heavenly Father; your days be occupied not in the vain devices of mental delusion, but in the exercise of sound reason for. the general good; and when that hour shall come which is to young and old at hand, and of which each will do well to consider how near it may now be to himself, your career of usefulness shall end in peace, your course of duty be finished with joy, and the trials of this present life be succeeded by a better resurrection. THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SCOTCH EPISCOPAL CHURCH, CONCISELY STATED, IN A CHARGE, DELIVERED IN AUGUST, 1829, ΤΟ The Clergy OF THE EPISCOPAL COMMUNION OF BRECHIN. BY THE RIGHT REVEREND GEORGE GLEIG, LL.D., F.R.S.E. & F.S.S.A. THEIR BISHOP. STIRLING: PRINTED FOR C. J. G. AND F. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLAČE, PALL MALL, LONDON; AND BELL AND BRADFUTE, EDINBURGH. A CHARGE, &c. MY REVEREND Brethren, A series of events, which have occurred within these last twenty years, seem to indicate that the constitution of our Church is not now so generally or so well understood as it was before the commencement of that period. It appears to me, therefore, as it appeared to my colleagues, and, as I was assured, to a majority of the Presbyters at the late Synod, that it might be of some importance, to circulate among the younger clergy, and even among the people at large, such a concise view of that constitution as I had the honour to lay before the Synod, and which, by the Synod, was sanctioned as perfectly correct. A wish was even expressed by the Prolocutor of the second chamber, to publish the view in the form in which it was laid before them; but as that form was adapted to a particular purpose, which was not carried into effect, I thought it better, and less arrogant, to reduce it into the form of an Address to you. |