7151 AN ESSAY 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. L., 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 J. Collord, Printer. "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. VEM AOBK TIBKYBA 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 Page An Appendix containing,-first, A Critique on the Apology for the Doctrine of the Apostolical Succession, by the Hon. and Secondly, A Review of Dr. W. F. Hook's Sermon, Vicar of Leed's, tr |