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Catechise. Ministers of the Church of England, by Canon 59, headed 'Ministers to catechise every Sunday,' are directed 'upon every Sunday and holy-day, before Evening Prayer' 'for half an hour or more' to 'examine and instruct the youth and ignorant persons' of their parishes 'in the Ten Commandments, the Articles of the Belief and in the Lord's Prayer,' on pain of sharp reproof upon the first complaint for neglect of duty, suspension for the second offence, and, 'there being little hope that the minister will be therein reformed', of excommunication for the third, to continue until reformation; and see also the Rubrics subjoined in the Prayer Book to the Church Catechism....
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Canon law
Canon law. When Christian communities formed themselves into congregations ('kklhoiai), certain resolutions were agreed upon for their government; these were termed rules kavoves, forma, disciplina); and the phrases canonica sanctio, lex canonica, and canonum jura, were not introduced until the ninth century, nor the phrase jus canonicum until the canon law began in the twelfth century to be treated as a science. The canon law, properly so called, denotes the ecclesiastical law, sanctioned by the Church of Rome. It borrows from the Roman Law many of its principles and rules of proceeding, though not servilely, nor without such variations as the independence of its tribunals and the different nature of its authorities might be expected to produce, See Hall. Lit. Hist.The canons made in England in 1603, and revised in 1866, are binding on the clergy only, see per Lord Hardwicke in Middleton v. Croft, (1737) 2 Str 1056, some of them being very archaic, as canon 72, by which it is unlawful...
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