Excerpt from The Apostolic Origin of Episcopacy Asserted, Vol. 2: In a Series of Letters, Addressed to the Rev. Dr. Miller, One of the Pastors of the United Presbyterian Churches in the City of New-York Chrislihn'man. Fit; was drawn up by a committee of Bishops anmerdivines \wa's afterwards read anil'approvodjbythe Lords spiritual and tempera], and the lbwer house of Parliament, was prefaced by the King, and published by.. His command. This book certainly proves that those who drew 1t up, had obtained much more just and clear views of several important doctrines, than they possessed at the date of the former publication. But with regard to ministerial parity, their sentiments remained 11 - 11-1 changed They stillf asserted the same doctrine They say, St. Paul ponsecrated and ordained Bi-a shopstby the imposition of hands; but that there is aroeertain rule prescribed in scripture for the norm; nation, election, or\.presentation of them, [that is true]vhut that this is left to the positive laws of every cbmmunity. 'n-[undoubtedlylj The ofiice of the said ministers is, to preach the word, to minister the sacraments, to bind and loose, to excommunir cate those that 'will_not-be reformed, and to pray for; the imiversal church. Having afterwards men tioned the order of Deacons, they go.on, to say, Of these two orders only, that is to say, Priests and Deacons, scripture maketh express mention; and how they were conferred of the Apostles by prayer and imposition oii hands. Still I must have recourse to Collier: Iahave never seen the Erudition, nor do I believe that you Sir, ever have. Like the bzstitutian, it is an exceed i.r1e rare book. Callier gives us an abstract of ii. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.