Excerpt from A Pastoral Letter of the House of Bishops, of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America IN the General Convention, held in the city of new-york, iii the year 1804, it was provided, that there should be a pastoral Ad? Dress from the House of Bishops of this church, to the clergy and laity of the same; 'ou such matters as might be thought the most pertinent to the state of the church at each particular period and grounded on the documents which, on every such occasion, might appear in the official reports from the various sections of the union. In compliance with this provision, the bishops assembled in' general convention in the city of'baltimore in the year 1808, addressed'all orders of persons within our communion, on the topics of doctrine, worship, discipline, and a christian life and conversation. Dur ing the next general convention, which was held in the city of New Haven, in the year 1811, the bishops there and then assembled, is sued their second pastoral letter; which related to sundry partien lars, especially interesting to themselves in their ecclesiastical ad ministrations. Although any of the matters discussed on these oc casions, might be now profitably recurred to, as having not been be fore exhausted yet we rather feel a desire to set before you some circumstances in the state of our church, which we consider as fruitful of encouragement; and some other circumstances, which open to our prospect an extensive field of zealous labour and, on the review of thesetwo subjects, to ground some heads of advice and exhortation, deemed by us worthy of being presented at this time to the members of our church in general, and to the clergy in particular. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.