Presbytery and not prelacy : the scriptural and primitive polity, proved from the testimonies of scripture, the fathers, the schoolmen, the reformers, and the English and oriental churches : also, the antiquity of presbytery, including an account of the ancient Culdees, and of St. Patrick / by Thomas Smyth.

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Main Author: Smyth, Thomas, 1808-1873
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : New York : Philadelphia : Cincinnati : Pittsburgh : Charleston : S. Hart, Sen., and McCarter and Allen ; London : Crocker and Brewster ; Robert Carter, Jonathan Leavitt, and Wiley and Putnam ; J. Whetham and Son, William S. Martien, and Perkins and Purves ; Weed and Wilson ; Thomas Carter ; Wiley and Putnam, 1843.
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505 0 |a Presbytery the scriptural and apostolical order of the church of Christ : The true apostolical or ministerial succession claimed by Presbyterians -- The claims of presbytery to the ministerial succession sustained by the condition of the church during our Lord's ministry -- The claims of presbytery to the true apostolical or ministerial succession sustained by the character and condition of the church when our Lord ascended up into heaven -- The claims of presbytery to the ministerial succession sustained by an appeal to the apostolic age of the church -- Presbyters are clothed by apostolic authority with all the functions of the ministry -- Presbyters are clothed by divine right with the power of ecclesiastical jurisdiction -- Presbyters are by divine right clothed with the power of ordination -- Presbyters are by divine right clothed with the power of ordination, the subject continued and proof given that the ordination of Timothy was conferred by presbyters -- That presbyters have the power of ordination proved by an appeal to antiquity -- On deacons as a third order of the christian ministry -- The alleged prelatical character of Epaphroditus, of Timothy and Titus, of James and of the seven angels examined and disproved -- The alleged prepatical character of hte Jewish church examined and disproved -- The argument for prelacy derived from its early prevalence and alleged universality examed and disproved, and its gradual introduction clearly accounted for -- The claims of presbytery to the true apostolical or ministerial succession sustained by an appeal to the fathers, the schoolmen, and reformed, and to the Romish, Anglican, and other churches : Preliminary remarks on the nature, design and value of the testimony of the fathers -- The testimony of the apostolic fathers to the claims of presbytery to the true ministerial succession -- The testimony of the primitive fathers in favor of the claims of presbytery to the true ministerial succession -- The testimony of the schoolmen or fathers of the later and middle ages to the claims of presbytery -- The testimony of the Romish, Greek, and Syrian churches in favor of the claims of presbytery -- The testimony of the reformed churches, including the English, to the claim of presbytery to the true apostolical or ministerial succession -- The antiquity of presbytery, with an exhibition of the presbyterianism of the ancient culdees of Ireland and Scotland, and also of St. Patrick : The antiquity of presbytery (3) 
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