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THE

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

BEING

ITS STANDARDS SUBORDINATE TO THE WORD OF GOD, VIZ.

THE CONFESSION OF FAITH, THE LARGER AND SHORTER
CATECHISMS, THE FORM OF GOVERNMENT, THE
BOOK OF DISCIPLINE, AND THE DIREC-

TORY FOR THE WORSHIP OF GOD

AS RATIFIED AND ADOPTED BY THE SYNOD OF NEW YORK
AND PHILADELPHIA, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1788

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THE CONSTITUTIONAL RULES ADOPTED IN 1893–1901,
AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACTS OF THE ASSEM-

BLY OF A GENERAL NATURE

PHILADELPHIA

PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION
AND SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK

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COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY

THE TRUSTEES OF THE

PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION
AND SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK.

REVISED EDITION, COPYRIGHT, 1896, 1897, 1899, 1902

REVISED AUGUST, 1965.

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

May 29, 1839.

Resolved, That the permission heretofore granted by the Assembly to publish the Confession of Faith in contravention of the copyright, be, and the same is hereby revoked.

Resolved, That the PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION is hereby directed to take the charge, oversight, and agency of printing and selling the authorized copy of the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America.

Resolved, That the standing committees to supervise the publication of the Constitution, within the bounds of the several Synods, be, and the same are, hereby abolished.

May 31, 1886.

Resolved, That the Stated and Permanent Clerks be a committee to supervise the publication of any and all editions of the Constitution hereafter issued by the Board of Publication, and also of the Rules for Judicatories.

May 22, 1891, *

Resolved, 1. That the Permanent Committee on Editions of the Constitution be enlarged by the addition, ex officio, of the Rev. E. R. Craven, D.D., LL.D.

Resolved, 2. That no change of the text of any of the several ✅ Standards of Doctrine, Government, Discipline, and Worship, included in the Constitution, shall hereafter be made except after report to the General Assembly, and due constitutional procedare.

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ATTESTATION.

The Clerks of the General Assembly, with the Rev. Dr. E. R. Craven, as the Permanent Committee appointed to supervise all editions of the Constitution, having carefully examined this edition, herewith state that the text has been carefully compared with those of the editions of 1789, 1797, 1815, 1821, 1885, and 1888, the edition of 1789 being regarded as the Princeps, and also with the texts of the Amendments as they appear in⠀ the Minutes of the General Assembly. In their judgment, this edition contains what may be regarded as the authoritative text of the Constitutional Standards of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. The Proof Texts are those approved by the Assembly of 1894, and have been carefully edited. The Index has been greatly enlarged, and it is believed will prove a decided help in consulting the work. WM. H. ROBERTS,

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E. R. CRAVEN,
WM. B. NOBLE.

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