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. 1844 Excerpt: ...Who are they who have a right to give it? And how did they obtain and how must they authenticate this right? 1 propose, therefore, in the first place, briefly to examine these two statements, with the view of showing that the one first set down by Dr. Mason is sustained by Holy Scripture. I need hardly say that upon ...
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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. 1844 Excerpt: ...Who are they who have a right to give it? And how did they obtain and how must they authenticate this right? 1 propose, therefore, in the first place, briefly to examine these two statements, with the view of showing that the one first set down by Dr. Mason is sustained by Holy Scripture. I need hardly say that upon this point I entirely coincide with that eminent divine, in opposition to the vague, confused, and often contdictory opinions, that are now so prevalent in relation to the Christian ministry. I feel anxious to obtain an attentive hearing upon this point, for recent disclosures have satisfied me that it needs illustration, that it needs, indeed, to be brought out and stated with great clearness, in order that it may be seen not only to be a point, but a fundamental one, in discussing the question that has given rise to the proposed series of essays to which this is an introduction. Let us, then, take a practical or common-sense view of the subject. I presume it will not be disputed that, in a community like ours, no man would be permitted to discharge the office of a minister of the Gospel, in any respectable congregation of Christians, without credentials of some kind. I may venture to say that, with the great majority of those whom I address, something more would be essential to their conceding to any man the right to baptize their children, to preach to them the Gospel, and to administer to them the Lord's Supper, than piety of character and intellectual endowments. Put the case. Suppose the pastor of a congregation in any one of the leading denominations of this city were to be removed, and no successor could be immediately procured, but that among their number was a man of unquestioned piety, and of extensive theological attainments; would t...
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Publisher:
New-York. Published by Harper & Brothers. 1844
Published:
1844
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16851152407
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Fine. 8vo, 22cm, ix, 176p., printed in double columns, disbound otherwise fine. (amp). Bishop Wainwright declined a verbal debate and it was conducted in twelve public letters. With an introduction and notes by an anti-sectarian. (George Potts, 1802-1864, argued the Presbyterian case).
