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Excerpt from Ecclesiastical Republicanism: Or the Republicanism, Liberality, and Catholicity of Presbytery, in Contrast With Prelacy and Popery The following work may require some explanation and some apology. The author has been for some years engaged in a careful examination of the subject of church government, especially in reference to the claims of prelacy to an exclusive possession of the rights, privileges, and immunities of the church of Christ. He was thus led to publish his Lectures on the Prelatical Doctrine Of Apostolical Succession, or the Protestant Ministry Defended against the Exclusive Assumptions of Popery and high-churchism, ' in 1841. This work he followed up, according to his original design, by his recent volume, just issued from the press, 'presbytery and not Prelacy the Scriptural and Primitive Polity, proved from the Testimonies of Scrip ture; the Fathers; the Schoolmen; the Reformers; and the English and Oriental Churches. Also, the Antiquity of Presbytery; including an Account of the Ancient Culdees, and of St. Patrick.' In pursuing the. 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.