...ecclesiastical canons and constitutions ; but, with a view of conciliating all religious differences, he admitted of some deviations from the English canons...Mr. Falle's time, there had not been a conventicle in the island. Of the three ceremonies, thus dispensed with, the disuse of the surplice is now the...

...— turning to the east at the repetition of the Apostle's Creed — bowing at the name of Jesus — the use of the surplice — the sign of the Cross in Baptism, and kneeling at the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Turning to the east, though a very ancient, is quite...

...episcopacy superseded presbyterianism in Jersey, and gained its old ascendancy, al>>m the year Kill). But the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in baptism. ari<l the ceremony of kneeling at the Lord's Supper, were dispensed with. To this day the surplice...

...the Church of England. Within these few years the Ministers of several of the parishes have adopted the use of the surplice. The sign of the cross in baptism, and the adminis/ring of the Lmd'i Supper to the people kneeling, are now in general use. It is another peculiarity...

...bishops. Indeed the only ceremonies which they specified as offensive to the consciences of many, were, the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in baptism, bowing at the name of Jesus, and kneeling at the altar. The form of church government was presented...

...for modifying a few matters, chiefly of form and church ceremony, in the English Prayer-book (such as the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in baptism, and the mode of ordination), in order to remove Presbyterian scruples about conforming. With the most shameless...

...Romish recusants and Puritan nonconformists. The scruples of the Puritans were chiefly directed against the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in baptism, and the ring in marriage. Having ineffectually sought to satisfy them on these points in a personal conference,...

...changes in the wording of other articles. They also repeated the objections formerly urged against the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in Baptism, the ring in marriage, and some other unimportant matters. They also requested that a new translation...

...Interim dispensed with the three ceremonies BO much controverted in England at that time — viz., the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in...the administering of the Lord's Supper to the people kneel:ng. — Falle'x Hiatury of Jewry. the table for communion was in front of the pulpit, and there...

...which was born with it, was Cmnprehento be a signal failure. It was proposed in this bill,""" that the use of the surplice, the sign of the cross in baptism, the custom in reference to godfathers and godmothers, and to kneeling or sitting at the Communion,...