AN ESSAY

ON

APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.

ON

APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION:

BEING

A DEFENCE OF A GENUINE PROTESTANT MINISTRY,

AGAINST THE EXCLUSIVE AND INTOLERANT SCHEMES OF

PAPISTS AND HIGH CHURCHMEN;

AND SUPPLYING

A GENERAL ANTIDOTE TO POPERY.

ALSO, AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING A REVIEW OF DR. W. F. HOOK'S SERMON,

VICAR OF LEEDS, &c.

ON “HEAR THE CHURCH," PREACHED BEFORE THE QUEEN, AT THE
CHAPEL ROYAL, IN ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JUNE 17, 1838.

BY THOMAS POWELL,

BOD

WESLEYAN MINISTER.

SECOND THOUSAND.

1838.
LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR,

BY THOMAS WARD AND CO. 27, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1113.

LEEDS:

MASON AND SCOTT, PRINTERS, BRIGGATE.

NO POSITIVE PROOF FROM THE SCRIPTURES, OF THESE HIGH CHURCH

CLAIMS,

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SECTION IV.

THE GENERAL SPIRIT AND SCOPE OF THE GOSPEL OPPOSED TO THIS HIGH

CHURCH SCHEME,..

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SECTION V.

SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCE AGAINST THESE CLAIMS, CONTINUED.-BISHOPS AND

PRESBYTERS THE SAME, PROVED FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT,

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SECTION VI.

THE SAME ARGUMENT CONTINUED-PRESBYTERS AND BISHOPS THE SAME;

PROVED FROM THE PUREST CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITY,.

SECTION VII.

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CHURCH OF ENGLAND AT THE REFORMATION AGAINST THESE CLAIMS,

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SECTION VIII.

BISHOPS AND PRESBYTERS THE SAME ORDER, SHEWN BY THE TESTIMONY

OF ALL THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN THE WORLD.

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SECTION IX.

PRESBYTERS

AND BISHOPS SHEWN ΤΟ KE THE SAME ORDER, BY THE
TESTIMONY OF THE GREATEST DIVINES OF ALL AGES,......

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