Reasons for Being a Churchman Addressed to English Speaking Christians of Ever
Reasons for Being a Churchman Addressed to English Speaking Christians of Ever
Arthur Wilde Little
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, IV. , 5. 94 REASONS FOR BEING A CHURCHMAN. produce the original of their Churches, let them show the Order of their BISHOPS, that by their Succession deduced from the beginning, we may see whether their first Bishop had any of the APOSTLES or Apostolic men, who did likewise persevere with the Apostles, for his Ordainer and Prede- cessor I For thus the Apostolical Churches hand down their records ; as the Church of Smyrna from Polycarp, whom John the Apostle placed there ; the Church of Rome f...rom Clement, who was in like manner** ordained by Peter; and so the other Churches can produce those constituted in the Bishoprics by the Apostles, and so regarded as transmitters of the Apostolic seed. " 35 He also calls a Bishop's seat " the Apos- tolic Chair. " The profound and versatile Origen, in the beginning of the third century, 26 also bears witness to the divine author- ity of Episcopacy. In one of his Lectures he asks : " If Jesus Christ, the Son of God, be subject to Joseph and Mary, shall not I be subject to the Bishop who is ordained of God to be my Father ?
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