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The Scriptural argument for episcopacy examined
The Scriptural argument for episcopacy examined Author:Albert Barnes Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EXAMINATION " EPISCOPACY TESTED BY SCRIPTURE;" A tract by the Right Rev. H. U. Ondehdonk, D.D., Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The his... more »tory of this tract is this. It was first published as an essay, in the " Protestant Episcopalian," for November and December, 1830. It was then issued in a pamphlet form, without the name of the author. It was next requested for publication by the " Trustees of the New-York Protestant Episcopal Press ;" and after being amended by the author, with an addition of several notes, it was printed in the form of a tract, and as such has had an extensive circulation. The tract is one which has strong claims on the attention of those who are not Episcopalians. The name and standing of the author will give it extensive publicity. The fact that it comes from the " Press " of the Episcopal church, in this country; that it is issued as one of their standing publications, and that it will, therefore, be circulated with all the zeal which usually characterizes associations organ, ized for defending the exclusive views of any religious body ; and most of all, the character of the tract itself, and the ground assumed by it, give it a title to our attention, which can be claimed by hardly any single tract of the kind ever published in our country. Our views of it may be expressed in one word. It is the best written, the most manly, elaborate, judicious, and candid discussion, in the form of a tract, which we have seen on this subject. Our Episcopalian friends regard it as unanswerable. They have provided amply for its circulation, and rely on its making converts wherever it is perused; and in a tone which cannot be misunderstood, they are exulting in the fact, that to this day it has been left entirely unnoticed by the opponents of prela...« less