IN the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
WE, the Bishops, together with the Delegates from the
Clergy and Laity of the Church of England in the Dominion of Canada, now
assembled in the first General Synod, hereby make the following Solemn
Declaration:
WE declare this Church to be, and desire that it
shall continue, in full communion with the Church of England throughout
the world, as an integral portion of the One Body of Christ composed of
Churches which, united under the One Divine Head and in the fellowship
of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, hold the One Faith
revealed in Holy Writ, and defined in the Creeds as maintained by the
undivided primitive Church in the undisputed Ecumenical Councils;
receive the same Canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, as
containing all things necessary to salvation; teach the same Word of
God; partake of the same Divinely ordained Sacraments, through the
ministry of the same Apostolic Orders; and worship One God and Father
through the same Lord Jesus Christ, by the same Holy and Divine Spirit
who is given to them that believe to guide them into all truth.
And we are determined by the help of God to hold and
maintain the Doctrine, Sacraments, and Discipline of Christ as the Lord
hath commanded in his Holy Word, and as the Church of England hath
received and set forth the same in 'The Book of Common Prayer and
Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the
Church, according to the use of the Church of England; together with the
Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in
Churches; and the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating
of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons'; and in the Thirty-nine Articles of
Religion; and to transmit the same unimpaired to our posterity.
