The numbers refer to Sections, except when preceded by p.
Calvin offered to restore episcopacy in the Churches under his influence, Christians, private, deeply concerned in this question, Church, consists of a Bishop, Presbyters, Deacons, and people, 188 & Ap. p. 392 Church, episcopal from the commence- ment, continued so throughout the world until the sixteenth century, when a small portion rejected the or ders of Bishops and Deacons, the Pres byters assuming the whole power, 358, 54 of Hindostan episcopal,
- of Bohemia, having lost all their Bishops but one during a violent per secution in the seventeenth century, sent three Presbyters to the Walden- sian Bishops who ordained them, 366 Clemens Alexandrinus, 169 Clemens Romanus, 165, &c. Concessions of Episcopalians, 477, &c. consist of opinions of indi- viduals variously influenced by affec tion, by fear, &c. 477-481, 45 of some founded on an in- correct view of Jerome's account of the time when Bishops were appointed, 4 and upon an incorrect state- ment of Jerome's account of the prac tice of the Alexandrine Church, of Stillin fleet, renounced when he became older, as totally unte nable, 485 to 489 of Presbyterian writers are 496, 554 to 559 -- of Blondel that there were Bishops in the Church in the year 140, 497 of Doddridge-in the time of Ignatius, viz. before the year 116, 500 of Peter Moulin, Baxter, Le Clerc, and Grotius, that Bishops were appointed in the time of the Apostles, (See Grotius,) 498 to 501 of Zanchius, Calvin, Beza, and others, that one certain person was set over the Presbyters, and that permanently, (See Calvin, above,) of Neal, that the English Dissenters separated from the Church because of objections to the Litany, the Surplice, and Kneeling at the Sacra- ment of the Lord's Supper; and that several refused bishoprics on this ac- count only, 537, &c.
544 Deacons preached and baptized, 183, 247, 248
Paul called to be an Apostle,
established the Church of Ephesus, 4,5 Successions of Bishops, 130, 185, 208 to 217 after three years left Ephesus for Jerusalem,
the time when Paul gave Timo-
thy this charge, journeys of,
visited Macedonia twice soon after
not in the English branch, lett Timothy in charge with epis 550, &c. copal authority, 10, 11, 12, 13 Stilling fleet's concessions renounced, asserts that Timothy's case 15, &c. is an uncontrollable case of diocesan episcopacy, 16, 80 asserts that there is as great reason to believe the apostolical suc- cession of Divine Institution, as the canon of Scripture, (See 323 to 325.) 485 Schism, attempted justification of, on the ground of the blessings of God at- tending it, Summary,
wrote the first Epistle to Timothy from Macedonia, during last visit, 18-21 shortly after went to Miletus, and sent for the Elders of Ephesus before Timothy had taken charge, Polycarp's testimony equivalent to Igna- tius', Presbyters subject to the Bishop. See italic lines in Appendix; also 153, 154, 183, 192, &c. 201, 202, 226, 227, 240, 244, 266,
228-230, 509, 512 had not power to ordain, 246, 252, 255-262, 292, &c. 349, 517.
permitted by the fourth Coun- cil of Carthage late in the fourth cen- tury, to lay on hands while the Bishop was ordaining a Presbyter,
were not permitted so to do in the Western Church generally for several hundred years afterwards, 557 note are not now permitted to do
so in the Eastern or Greek Church, 557 note not permitted to confirm, did not sit in primitive times in General Councils, except as repre- sentatives of their Bishop,
many, Bishop always one, 341, 342
-called, with the Deacons, the adherents of the Bishop,
taken by the Bishops to ac- company them to Metropolitan Coun- cils in what number they pleased, 337, 503 ordination by, declared null
and void in the fourth century, 359-364
In Section 81, for Ephesus read Macedonia.
In Section 467, 15th line from the top of p. 174, read by prophecy after thee. In Section 548, 4th line, after stock read and the Methodist Church.
[The preceding list, given in the original edition of the Essay, was not observed until too late for correction. The following is to be added:
In APPENDIX I., p. 392., the first three lines of Section 3, should be in italics.]
RIGHT REVEREND HENRY U. ONDERDONK, D. D.,
ASSISTANT BISHOP OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.
"To the law, and to the testimony:"-Isaiah viii. 20.
The following Essay was first published in the "Protestant Episcopalian" for November and December, 1830. Its re-publication being desired by "the Trustees of the New-York Protestant Episcopal Press," the author has embraced the opportunity to make corrections and improvements, and to append three additional notes-on the permanent obligation of episcopacy-on the plea of necessity' for departing from it—and on the objection that monarchy, as much as episcopacy, is set forth in Scripture.
Philadelphia, January, 1831.
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