An Exposition and Defence of the Presbyterian Form of Church Government
by David King (9781150641442)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Original Publisher: Johnstone and Hunter Subjects: Religion / Sermons / Christian Religion / Christianity / Presbyterian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PART V. ON THE SUBORDINATION OF PRESBYTERS TO PRELATES; OR, DIOCESAN EPISCOPAC i." CHAPTER I. High ground taken by a portion of Episcopal writers -- Importance attached by them to Apostolical Succession -- Consequences of the doctrine -- The Episcopal form of government might be the best. independently of the doctrine of Succession, Many Episcopal writers take high ground in defending their church order. In their view, ministers not episcopally ordained are mere laymen. And without a regular ministry, there can be no valid administration of ordinances -- no true church -- no covenanted mercy. Some of them, in very plain terms, represent sin Episcopal administration of the means of grace as not only essential to good order, but as in all ordinary circumstances indispensable to salvation. The famous Dodwell, in a work full of anathemas against schism, supposes himself to evince no schismatic spirit in declaring of every dissenter from Episcopal communion, that, from ' being disunited from the church, he loses his union with Christ, and all the mystical benefits consequent to that union. Pie has thenceforward no title to the sufferings or merits or intercessions of Christ, or any of those other blessings which were purchased by thosemerits, or which may be expected from those intercessions. He has no title to pardon of sin, to the gifts or assistances of the blessed Spirit, or to any promises of future rewards, though he should perform all other parts of his duty besides this of re...

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