What order does the Church of England take for such inquiry?
It is the office and practice of the bishops to make such inquiry at their visitations.
In what manner can they be informed of their offences?
The churchwardens are bound to make report on such subjects at the bishop's visitation.[1]
And if the ministers be found to be evil men, what ought to be the consequence?
"Being found guilty," the discipline of the Church requires that they should "be deposed."
What are we to understand by being deposed?
That they should be degraded from the office of the ministry, either for a time or altogether.
By whom may this be done?
By the authority of the bishop in accordance with the laws of the Church.
Article XXVII.
What is the subject of the twenty-seventh Article?
"Baptism."
What is the first thing asserted in the Article concerning Baptism?
That it is a "sign of profession, and mark of dif-
- ↑ The Church of the United States provides in her canons respecting the "offences for which the ministers shall be tried and punished," and the way in which this shall be done.
