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. 1831 Excerpt: ...not view these circumstances through the medium of prejudice, I have consulted the primitive writers, so far as I have access to them, and I find that they are unanimous in asserting, that St. James was Bishop of Jerusalem, and that there was a clear and indisputable succession to that see for ages. If, Sir, you reject ...
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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. 1831 Excerpt: ...not view these circumstances through the medium of prejudice, I have consulted the primitive writers, so far as I have access to them, and I find that they are unanimous in asserting, that St. James was Bishop of Jerusalem, and that there was a clear and indisputable succession to that see for ages. If, Sir, you reject this evidence, I am well satisfied that you must, in order to be consistent, give up several points, of which you appear to me to have no doubt whatever. Let us now, Sir, take another position, and view this matter through a Presbyterian glass; and then we shall see St. James seated among his Elders as their Moderator; not a temporary one to be sure, but fixed in the chair during his life. Let us also view Timothy, and Titus, and the seven Angels as Moderators also, possessing no power but that of collecting the votes and keeping order. Well: James the Moderator of Jerusalem, who is so particularly distinguished in the Scripture, and who drew upon himself the vengeance of the Jews, by filling the high station of a chairman to the Presbytery, was succeeded in his Moderatorship by Simeon, who lived till the year 110. Timothy, the Moderator of Ephesus, and Titus, the Moderator of Crete, to whom were committed the power of ordaining Elders, and of censuring those Elders, together with the Deacons and Laity of their Churches, and, in short, of regulating all ecclesiastical matters, had also their successors to the same Moderatorship. The Angels of the seven Churches of Asia Minor, who are either censured, or praised, for all the corruption, or all the purity in their respective Churches, were no more than Moderators, and in this character had likewise their successors. Now, Sir, not to dwell on the utter inconsistency of this notion of a Moderator...
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