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Rh churches, and which continue to exist among them, the priesthood has ever been kept sacred from unlawful invasion on the part of the laity; and the Nestorians, though greatly fallen from the knowledge, faith, and zeal, possessed by their ancestors, still maintain pure and undefiled the apostolical doctrine as contained in Article XXIII. of the Church of England.