Assertion: deacon's duty | /r/Synonym | specific duties
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text: The relation in which these Orders stand to each other, or to the Church at large, in respect of authority, and jurisdiction, and legal qualifications for holding their offices, must be learned from other sources; but the differences of the duties which are undertaken, of the promises made, and of the charge imposed upon them, can be learned only from the Ordination services; and that the three Orders have duties of a different kind imposed upon each, of them; and that the members of those orders are under distinct obligations, correspondent to the distinct nature of their duties, will be admitted by all who consent to this fundamental principle, as directing, the conduct of the Deacon, the Priest, or the Bishop, "That the duties to which, he is called, and the authority with which he is invested, are only those specific duties and that authority which the words of each service imply, and which the terms of admission to the office import.