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CONTENTS.
PART I.
ORIGIN, DOCTRINES, AND ADMIN-
ISTRATIVE RULES.
CHAPTER I.
ORIGIN AND ARTICLES.
Sec. 1. Origin of the Methodist E. Church Page 13
Sec. 2. Articles of religion...........
15
CHAPTER II.
GENERAL RULES, AND RECEPTION OF MEMBERS.
Sec. 1. The nature, design, and general rules, of our United Societies...
25
Sec. 2. Of receiving members into the Church 30
CHAPTER III.
OF THE CONFERENCES.
Sec. 1. Of our deportment at the Conferences 31
Sec. 2. Of the General Conference.............
Sec. 3. Of the Annual Conferences..
Sec. 4. Of the Quarterly Conferences............
32
34
37
CHAPTER IV.
OF THE MINISTERS.
Sec. 1. Of the election and consecration of
Bishops, and of their duty..................Page 40
Sec. 2. Of the Presiding Elders, and of their
duty......
43
Sec. 3. Of the election and ordination of
travelling Elders, and of their duty........... 45
Sec. 4. Of the election and ordination of trav-
elling Deacons, and of their duty.............. 45
Sec. 5. Of the reception of preachers from
the Wesleyan Connexion and from other
denominations.......
48
Sec. 6. Of the examination of those who think
they are moved by the Holy Ghost to preach 49
Sec. 7. Of the method of receiving travelling
preachers on trial.....
Sec. 8. Of receiving travelling preachers into
full connexion..........
Sec. 9. Of the rules for a preacher's conduct
Sec. 10. Of the duty of preachers to God,
themselves, and one another.....
50
51
53
55
Sec. 11. Of the duty of those who have charge
of circuits or stations........
Sec. 12. Of the matter and manner of preach-
ing......
58
Sec. 13. Rules by which we should continue
or desist from preaching at any place...... 64
Sec. 14. Of visiting from house to house,
guarding against those things that are so
common to professors, and enforcing practi-
cal religion.........
65
Sec. 15. Of employing our time profitably
when we are not travelling, &c.......... Page 71
Sec. 16. Of the necessity of union among our- selves..............................
Sec. 17. Of supernumerary and superannuated
or worn-out preachers......
Sec. 18. Of local preachers.....
CHAPTER V.
OF THE MEANS OF GRACE.
Sec. 1. Of public worship................
72
73
74
77
Sec. 2. Of the spirit and truth of singing....... 78
Sec. 3. Of class-meetings and love-feasts........ 79
Sec. 4. Of band societies............................................
CHAPTER VI.
OF THE INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN.
81
Of Sunday schools and the religious instruction
of children......
85
CHAPTER IX.
OF BRINGING MINISTERS AND MEMBERS TO TRIAL,
AND OF THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES.
Sec. 1. Of the trial of a Bishop............... Page 90
Sec. 2. Of the method of proceeding against
accused travelling ministers or preachers... 91
Sec. 3. Of the trial of local preachers............................. 96
Sec. 4. Of bringing to trial, finding guilty, and
reproving, suspending, or excluding, dis-
orderly persons from society and Church
privileges....
88
98
Sec. 2. Of the ministration of baptism to
infants
103
Sec. 3. Of the ministration of baptism to such
as are of riper years.......................
107
FORMS OF ORDINATION.
Sec. 1. The form of ordaining a Bishop...Page 122
Sec. 2. The form and manner of ordaining
Elders...
Sec. 3. The form and manner of making of
Deacons.....:
132
144
THE FORM OF SOLEMNIZATION OF MATRIMONY.
The form of solemnization of matrimony...... 149
ORDER OF THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD.
The order of the burial of the dead.............. 155
PART III.
TEMPORAL ECONOMY.
OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE ANNUAL CONFERENCES.
Of the boundaries of the Annual Conferences. 158
OF CHURCHES AND CHURCH PROPERTY.
Sec. 1. Of building churches, and the order to
be observed therein......
Sec. 2. Form of a deed of settlement..........................
Sec. 3. Of trustees......
169
171
175