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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1853 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1844 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1841 Edition.

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1844. The object of the author, in the following work, is to commend to the consideration of the reader the admirable simplicity of the government and worship of the primitive church, in opposition to the polity and ceremonials of prelacy. In the prosecution of this object, he has sought to go to the original sources, and first and chiefly draw from them. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Contents: Primitive churches formed after the model of the Jewish Synagogue; Independence of the Primitive Churches; Elections by the Churches; Discipline by the Churches; Equality and Identity of Bishops and Presbyters: Scriptural Argument, Historical Argument; Rise of Episcopacy; Diocesan Government; Metropolitan Government; Patriarchal and the Papal Government; Prayers of the Primitive Church; Psalmody of the Primitive Church; Homilies in the Primitive Church; Benediction.