Episcopacie By Divine Right Etc

Excerpt from The Divine Right of Episcopacy, and the Necessity of an Episcopal Commission for Preaching God's Word, and for the Valid Ministration of the Christian Sacraments, Proved From the Holy Scriptures, and the Doctrine and Practice of the Primitive Church: Together With an Impartial Account of the False Principles of Papists, Lutherans, and Calvinists, Concerning the Identity of Bishops and Presbyters \vine Service, and fpecially when he mini/lreth the Holy Communion, and to help him in the Di/lrihution ther'eq of, and to read Holy Scripturer and Homilies in the Congregation, and to in ruez' the Youth in the Catechifin, to baptize, and to preach he he thereto admitted hy the Bijhop. And in the Form of ordering Prie r, we learn that it appertaineth to his Office to preach the ld of God, and to minz er the Holy Sacraments. And in the Form for confecrating a Bzyhop we are taught that over and above what is common to him with Priefts and Deacons he is admitted to the Government of the Church of Chri/t, and is thereby veiled with a Power to ordain and {end others; And accordingly when abdeacon is to be ordained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."