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Subtitle: With an Inquiry Into the Divine Right of Episcopacy and the Apostolic Succession: in a Series of Letters to the Rev. Dr. Pusey General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1844 Original Publisher: Presbyterian Board of Publication Subjects: Oxford movement Episcopacy Apostolic succession Reformation 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: Nothing has so effectually thrown contempt upon a regular sue- cession of the ministry, as the calling no succession regular but what was uninterrupted, and the making the eternal salvation of Chris. tiuns to depend upon that uninterrupted succession, of which the most learned can have the least assurance, and the unlearned can have H. i notion, but through ignorance and credulity. Hoadly. They who would reduce the Church to the form of government thereof in the primitive times would be found pecking towards the Presbytery of Scotland: Which, for my part, I believe in point of government Cometh nearer than either yours (the Popish) or ours of Episcopacy to the first age of Christ's Church. Lord Digby. chapter{Section 4 CONTENTS. LETTER I. Ungenerous and unprovoked attack by Puscyite Episcopalians on Presbyterian Churches. -- Alarming view presented by the former, of the spiritual condition of the latter. -- Necessity imposed on Presbyterians to defend their principles 17 LETTER II. Exclusive claims of Puseyitc Episcopalians to the Christian ministry by no means of recent origin. -- Saravia not the author of them, but Laud. -- Account of the principal individuals in the Church of England who have brought. them forward at different periods, when they considered her to be in danger. -- Their doctrines proved to be contrary to her pri...

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John Brown, D. D. (1778-1848), of Langton, was a theological writer. He was born at Glasgow, licensed by the presbytery of Glasgow, ordained minister of Gartmore, and joined the Free Church in 1843. He received the degree of D.D. from the University of Glasgow in November 1815. He was one of the early friends and promoters of evangelical views in the church of Scotland, and a contributor to the 'Christian Instructor.' He was the author of two books which attained fame, Vindication of Presbyterian Church Government, in reply to the Independents and The Exclusive Claims of Puseyite Episcopalians to the Christian Ministry indefensible.

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