ON

THE PASTORAL OFFICE,

CONTAINING

A DEFENCE OF WESLEYAN METHODISM,

ESPECIALLY THE RIGHTS AND EXERCISES

OF HER PASTORS.

BY JAMES CATTON,

WESLEYAN MINISTER.

LONDON:
SOLD FOR THE AUTHOR BY J. MASON, 14, CITY-ROAD,

THE WESLEYAN MINISTERS,
J. ROGERS, GRANTHAM, AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.

1840.

61.

TO THE

MINISTERS OF THE WESLEYAN CONNEXION,

THE STUDENTS IN THE THEOLOGICA

INSTITUTION,

THE LOCAL PREACHERS, LEADERS, AND MEMBERS IN SOCIETY,

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD,

THIS SMALL VOLUME,

IN WHICH THE RIGHTS, AND EXERCISES, OF THE PASTORAL OFFICE

ARE STATED AND VINDICATED,

BY WHICH IT IS HOPED THE MINISTRY MAY BE GUIDED,

AND COMFORTED,

IS

HUMBLY

DEDICATED

BY THE AUTHOR.