Christians united to Christ in the Holy Spirit through faith and baptism and ordered in their various communities under the ministry of word, sacrament and pastoral oversight. Anglicans unequivocally recognize their fellowship with all the baptized, whatever their Christian tradition or denominational allegiance may be. The Book of Common Prayer (1662) speaks of Christians as ‘very members incorporate in the mystical body of thy Son, which is the blessed company of all faithful people’. Second, there
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