This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...Had the national church ever any such appointments? Wesley solemnly " ordains " Coke; and yet, say our opponents, it was not to the episcopal office, though he had been ordained to all the other offices years before! Wesley ordains two other men to the office of elders, and at the same time separately and formally ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...Had the national church ever any such appointments? Wesley solemnly " ordains " Coke; and yet, say our opponents, it was not to the episcopal office, though he had been ordained to all the other offices years before! Wesley ordains two other men to the office of elders, and at the same time separately and formally ordains Dr. Coke, who already had borne this office; but still Dr. Coke's new office was not the only remaining one that could be conferred upon him! Wesley refers to the ordination of a bishop by the presbyters of Alexandria in justification of his ordination of Dr. Coke; and yet, forsooth, he did not ordain Dr. Coke a bishop! Wesley prepares for the American Church a prayer book, abridged from that of the Church of England, prescribing the English forms for the three offices of deacons, presbyters, and bishops: the two former are allowed unquestionably to be what they are in England, and yet the latter is utterly explained into something new and anomalous, answering to nothing ever heard of in the Church of England or in any other church! In these forms the old names of two of the offices are changed to new but synonymous terms: that of presbyter, or priest, to elder; that of bishop to superintendent. In the former case th change of the name is not for a moment supposed to imply a change of the thing, and our seceding opponents contentedly exercise the rights of presbyters under the name of elders; and yet, in the other case, the change of name invalidates entirely the thing, without a particle more evidence for it in the one case than in the other! Charles Wesley, being a high churchman, was kept unaware of his brother's proceedings till they were accomplished, though he was in the town at the time of the ordination; and yet it was no...
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