John Wesley a bishop or not, If he was episcopally consecrated, Wesley could not openly announce this without incurring the penalty of the Præmunire Act.

If oil blessed by the bishop is not available, the priest administering the sacrament may bless the oil, but only within the framework of the celebration.

If anyone shall dare act contrary to this and arrogate to himself the power belonging to the bishop, let him be expelled from the Church.

If anyone shall violate the truce of God he shall be admonished three times by the bishop to make satisfaction.

If he disregards the third admonition the bishop, either with the advice of the metropolitan or with that of two or one of the neighboring bishops, shall pronounce the sentence of anathema against the violator and in writing denounce him to all the bishops.

If a bishop, especially one acting as an ordinary – a head of a diocese or archdiocese – is to be ordained, three bishops must usually co-consecrate him with one bishop, usually an archbishop or the bishop of the place, being the chief consecrating prelate.

If the bishop is a diocesan rather than a titular bishop, he is likely to delegate the daily functions to an auxiliary bishop or a lower cleric.

Writing in 409, Jerome remarked, " A great many years ago when I was helping Damasus, bishop of Rome with his ecclesiastical correspondence, and writing his answers to the questions referred to him by the councils of the east and west ..." If " east and west " do not betray the passage as an interpolation, Jerome spent three years ( 382 – 385 ) in Rome in close intercourse with Pope Damasus and the leading Christians.

If instead of the knight, White had a bishop on either color of square, White would win with either side to move.

If a rook or queen is pinned along a file, or a bishop or queen is pinned along a diagonal, the pin is a partial pin: the pinned unit can still move along its line but cannot leave that line.

If a bishop or abbot celebrates, he wears a plain mitre ( mitra simplex ).

If the danger of death is present or if, in the judgement of the diocesan bishop or conference of bishops, some other grave necessity urges it, Catholic ministers administer these same sacraments licitly also to other Christians not having full communion with the Catholic Church, who cannot approach a minister of their own community and who seek such on their own accord, provided that they manifest Catholic faith in respect to these sacraments and are properly disposed.

If there is no parish church, the bishop licenses another building for worship, and may designate it as a Parish Centre of Worship, a building which is not consecrated, but dedicated, and for most legal purposes it is deemed to be a parish church.

When Pope Innocent II asked Thurstan's opinion on the elevation of Anselm of St Saba, who was Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, to become Bishop of London, Thurstan replied " If we consider his life and reputation, it would be much more fitting to remove him from his abbacy than to promote him to be bishop of London.

If a newly elected pope is not a bishop, he is consecrated at once.

If the new pope is already a bishop, as is normally the case, his election is announced immediately to the people gathered in Saint Peter's Square and he gives them his blessing.

If a bishop celebrates, he wears a plain mitre.

" If necessity so requires ", the diocesan bishop may grant specified priests the faculty to administer the sacrament, although normally he is to administer it himself or ensure that that it is conferred by another bishop.

( If it were, there would be no need for the presence of a bishop.

Marlborough wrote to Lord Raby, the English resident at Berlin: " If it should please God to give us victory over the enemy, the Allies will be little obliged to the King for the success.

If the book of Zephaniah was largely composed during the monarchic period, the author of the book of Zephaniah attempts to accomplish this change in behaviour through the threat of future calamity for “ those who have turned back from following the Lord, / who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him ” ( 1: 6 ).

In response to Lord Chalfont's claim in that the Soviet Union was giving the European peace movement £ 100 million a year, Bruce Kent said, " If they were, it was certainly not getting to our grotty little office in Finsbury Park.

If the Lord is God, follow him ; but if Baal then follow him ” ().

If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.

His last words to his followers were, " If I did not so fully believe, that the Lord has designated me to place our society before His presence in the land of Canaan, I would consider this my last ".

If Parliament is not in session, then the trial is conducted by a " Court of the Lord High Steward " instead of the House of Lords ( even if the defendant is not a peer ).

If I take a wife it will be because, being better freed from numerous worries, I can devote myself to the Lord.

If he succeeded and built the Holy Temple in its proper place and gathered the dispersed ones of Israel together, this is indeed the anointed one for certain, and he will mend the entire world to worship the Lord together, as it is stated: " For then I shall turn for the nations a clear tongue, so that they will all procalim the Name of the Lord, and to worship Him with a united resolve ( Zephaniah 3: 9 ).

" If anyone says that the blessed Apostle Peter was not established by the Lord Christ as the chief of all the apostles, and the visible head of the whole militant Church, or, that the same received great honour but did not receive from the same our Lord Jesus Christ directly and immediately the primacy in true and proper jurisdiction: let him be anathema.

If anyone says that it is not from the institution of Christ the Lord Himself, or by divine right that the blessed Peter has perpetual successors in the primacy over the universal Church, or that the Roman Pontiff is not the successor of blessed Peter in the same primacy, let him be anathema.

If a feast day falls on a Sunday it is always combined with the hymns for Sunday ( unless it is a Great Feast of the Lord ).

If you don't kill it yourself, then the Lord, hammer-blow after hammer-blow, shall send various misfortunes, so as to crush this stone.

' James Harris MP, however, recorded that Lord Nugent had told him that Chatham's last words in the Lords were: ' If the Americans defend independence, they shall find me in their way ' and that his very last words ( spoken to his son ) were: ' Leave your dying father, and go to the defence of your country '.

If one finds a stranded whale corpse, one is in charge of holding the funeral for the " Lord " as if it was one's own parent.

: If any one will piously and soberly consider the sermon which our Lord Jesus Christ spoke on the mount, as we read it in the Gospel according to Matthew, I think that he will find in it, so far as regards the highest morals, a perfect standard of the Christian life

" If you go in you're sure to win " ( Lord Tolloller, Lord Mountararat, and Lord Chancellor )

If Thou art with us, Lord we must,

On May 8, 2006, Robertson said, " If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms.

One famous apocryphal quote attributed to him upon hearing an explanation of the extremely complicated mathematics required to demonstrate Ptolemy's theory of astronomy was " If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking on creation thus, I should have recommended something simpler.

If the House of Lords was in recess, the Lord Chancellor or Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary could recall the House to give judgment.

The gift was declared void in 1851 in the case of Habershon v Vardon by Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce, Chancellor of the High Court, who stated " If it can be understood to mean any thing, it is to create a revolution in the dominions of an ally of her Majesty ".

If Patten had been re-elected in 1992, sections of the media thought he would have been rewarded by appointment as Foreign Secretary, although in his autobiography John Major said that he would have made Patten Chancellor of the Exchequer.

If prompted or desired, the President could remove the Chancellor.

( 1 ) If a motion of a Federal Chancellor for a vote of confidence is not assented to by the majority of the members of the Bundestag, the Federal President may, upon the proposal of the Federal Chancellor, dissolve the Bundestag within twenty-one days.

If the Bundestag ( parliament ) declares the state of defence ( Verteidigungsfall ), the Federal Chancellor ( Bundeskanzler ) assumes command of the German armed forces ().

In 208, Cao became Imperial Chancellor and ordered Sima to serve him, saying " If he dallies, arrest him.

If so, he would not have ever satisfied the description " the first Chancellor of the German Empire ," and ( indeed ) someone else probably would have.

" If Bilderberg meetings are just talking shops, why do the most powerful figures from around the world, including George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, bother to attend?

If McGee did not anchor on a broadcast, Chancellor did from New York ; if Brinkley did not, Chancellor filled in from Washington.

If the Chancellor finds that a legal act does not conform with the constitution or other laws he will make a proposition to change the act within 20 days.

If a correction is not made, the Chancellor will make a referral to the Supreme Court to declare the act or some of its provisions void.

If the challenger was victorious, the old Chancellor would be dead, and the challenger would usually take the role of Chancellor for himself, or in rare cases bestow the role to another.

If a Chancellor died of natural causes or not as a result of direct combat, an Arbiter of Succession would be named.

If the King failed to call Parliament, the Act required the Lord Chancellor to issue the writs, and failing that, the House of Lords could assemble and issue writs for the election of the House of Commons.

If both Federal Chancellor and Vice Chancellor are hindered, the Federal President appoints a member of the government to represent the Federal Chancellor.

If only one party is represented in the government, the Vice Chancellor is often the Chancellor's presumed successor.

If Jack Straw's belief that the Secretary of State for Justice is the fifth Great Office of State ( see below ) is correct then two other ministers have held three of the offices, Jack Straw himself, as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Justice Secretary, and Ken Clarke as Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Justice Secretary.