ON APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION; BEING A DEFENCE OF A GENUINE PROTESTANT MINISTRY, AGAINST THE EXCLUSIVE AND INTOLERANT SCHEMES AND SUPPLYING A GENERAL ANTIDOTE TO POPERY: ALSO, A CRITIQUE ON THE APOLOGY FOR APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION, 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 LANE & SCOTT, 200 Mulberry-street. JOSEPH LONGKING, PRINTER. 1848. "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. CONTENTS. Page 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 |