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Essay on Apostolical Succession; Being a Defense of a Genuine Protestant Ministry; and Supplying a General Antidote to Popery
Essay on Apostolical Succession Being a Defense of a Genuine Protestant Ministry and Supplying a General Antidote to Popery Author:Thomas Powell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1840 Original Publisher: Ward Subjects: Apostolic succession 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-Bo... more »oks.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: SECTION III. NO POSITIVE PKOOi' FROM THE SCRIPTURES Of THESE HIGH CHUJ CLAIMS. We will proceed to examine the scriptural proofs adduced favour of these High Church claims. Bishop Taylor has granti (what every Protestant ought to insist upon) that, except th have clear, Scriptural grounds for these claims, the attempt impose them on the church of God would be tyranny. " Whi soever," says he, "was the regiment of the Church in t Apostles' limes, that must be perpetuall, (not so as to have i that which was personal!, and temporary, but so as to ha no other) for that, and that Only is of Divine institution win Christ committed to the Apostles, and if the Church be not m governed as then, we can shew no Divine Authority for o government, which we must contend to doe, and doe it, too, be call'd Usurpers."" So says Chillingworth, in his immort declaration, -- " The Religion of the Protestants -- is the Bib] The Bible, I say, the Bible only is the Religion of Protestant Whatsoever else they believe besides it, and the plain, irrefrag ble, indubitable consequences of it, well may they hold it as matter of Opinion ; but as matter of faith and religion, neithi can they with coherence to their own grounds believe it then selves, nor require the belief of it of others, without most hig and most schismatical presumption." f I ought to caution the reader on one point here -- it is tin that he will not blame me if I do not bring forward any sue arguments produced by these divines, out of the sacred scripture! as their cause might seem to demand. All I can say...« less