They accordingly rejected from their creed Article XXI., and also excluded from their liturgy and forms of prayer, all allusion to the king as the head or governor of the church.

Listen to the testimony of the _Episcopal_ ministers of Maryland, in 1783, soon after the acknowledgment of the independence of this country.

They passed a number of resolutions, of which the fourth reads thus: "That as it is the _right_, so it will be the _duty_ of the Episcopal Church, when duly organized, constituted, and represented in a Synod or Convention of the different orders of her ministers and people, to revise her liturgy, forms of prayer and of public worship, in order to adapt the same _to the late Revolution_, and OTHER LOCAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF AMERICA," [Note 1] &c.
Our _Presbyterian_ brethren also changed their Confession of Faith, and adapted it to their belief.

Hear the testimony of _Dr.Hodge_, in his Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States: [Note 2] the Synod then "took into consideration the twentieth chapter of the Westminster Confession of Faith, the third paragraph of the twenty-third chapter, and the first paragraph of the thirty-first chapter; and having made some alterations, agreed that the said paragraphs, as now altered, be printed for consideration, together with a draught of a plan of government and discipline." They were subsequently adopted.
In like manner did our _Methodist Episcopal_ brethren deal with the Thirty-nine Articles of the Episcopal Church, which they had avowed from the days of Wesley.

They not only rejected the recognition of the king as the head of the church, but also entirely omitted Article XVII., which is supposed by many to inculcate Calvinism, together with several others; and materially altered Articles I., II., VI., IX., XXVI., and XXXIV.