Essay On Apostolical Succession Being a Defense of a Genuine Protestant Ministr
Essay On Apostolical Succession Being a Defense of a Genuine Protestant Ministr
Thomas Howell
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And this was the constitution of the church under the government of the Apostles. Afterwards, when Bishops were made above Presby- ters, both being the SAME in name and reality, then the Bishops presided over the Presbyters of each city, all Bishops being accounted equal. This state of things continued till the council of Xice, A. D. 325, or a little after. From that time metropolit- ans were placed over the Bishops of a province, and had the right of ordaining the Bishops of that province. "" ...SCHLEUSNER : " For at length, after the Apostles'*age, that difference was introduced between the Bishops and Presbyters, that the Bishops should have the greater dignity, as Suicerus rightly states in his Thesaurus Ecclesiasticus. " ARCHBISHOP USHER: "I asked him (Abp. Usher) also his judgment about the validity of Presbyter's ordination ; which he asserted, and told me that the king (Charles I. ) asked him, at the Isle of Wight, wherever he found in antiquity, that Presby- ters alone ordained any ?
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