The Appeal to the Public Answered in Behalf of the Non Episcopal Churches in Ame
The Appeal to the Public Answered in Behalf of the Non Episcopal Churches in Ame
Charles Chauncy
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Is this reafonable ? Wilt they, will the world, think it is ? IT is injurious to the Bifhops alfo it is propofecl ihoiild be ient to theColonies. They are, in a meer arbitrary manner, retrained in the exercife of thac authority, which, in the judgment of thefe very Planners, p-operly belongs to them both by; apoftolic appointment, and the confirmation of the ^Church of England. Why then fhould they be deprived of one half of that, which is their jufl right ? If it is fit, they Oiould be allowed... the ex- eicife of their authority in the government of the EpHcopal-laity at home, why not in America ? What good reafon can be afligned for making this wide difference ? If Bifhops are fent hither, the Laity of the Epifcopai Churches are as properly the objeds of their government, as the Clergy ; and, if they are confidered either as officers of Ohrift, or of the Church of England, it as truly belongs to them to exerciie a governing authority over the one as the other. The lirrutarion of their power, propofed in the Plan, is therefore an un~ reafonable invafion of their juft right as Bifhops; tea, if the government of the Church, as the Dr.
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