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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:	Presbyterianism. Presbyterian Church > Government.

Table of Contents:

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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