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, A CRITIQUE ON THE APOLOGY FOR APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION, BY THE HON. AND REV. A. P. PERCEVAL, B. C. Log AND A REVIEW OF DR. W. F. HOOK'S SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE QUEEN, JUNE 17, 1838: BY THOMAS POWELL, WESLEYAN MINISTER. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY G. LANE & C. B. TIPPETT, FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, AT THE CONFERENCE "THEY ARE EQUALLY MAD WHO MAINTAIN THAT BISHOPS ARE SO JURE DIVINO THAT THEY MUST BE CONTINUED: AND THEY WHO SAY THEY ARE SO UNCHRISTIAN, THAT THEY MUST BE PUT AWAY."-SELDEN. "MEN CANNOT CARRY ON A RESOLUTE STRUGGLE AGAINST SOPHISTRY WITH THE SAME SMOOTHNESS AND SIMPLICITY WITH WHICH THEY ENUNCIATE TRUISMS."-Quarterly REVIEW, JAN., 1840. No positive proof from the Scriptures of these high Church claims -The commission of Jesus Christ to the apostles-The claim of apostleship for bishops-High priesthood of bishops |