RECENTLY PUBLISHED,

PRESBYTERY AND NOT PRELACY;

APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION;

ECCLESIASTICAL REPUBLICANISM.

THE HISTORY, CHARACTER, AHD RESULTS

OF THE

WESTMINISTER ASSEMBLY OF DIVINES.

THE EXODUS OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND,

AND THE

CLAIMS OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND

TO THE

SYMPATHY AND ASSISTANCE OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANS.

AN

ECCLESIASTICAL CATECHISM,

OF THE

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

FOR THE ABOVE SEE CRITICAL NOTICES AT THE END.

NATURE, AND FUNCTIONS,

OF

RULING ELDERS;

WHEREIN IT IS SHOWN

FROM THE TESTIMONY OF SCRIPTURE, THE FATHERS, AND
THE REFORMERS,

THAT

RULING ELDERS ARE NOT PRESBYTERS OR BISHOPS;

AND THAT,

AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE PEOPLE, THEIR OFFICE OUGHT TO BE
TEMPORARY.

"

BY

THOMAS SMYTH, D. D.,

"

AUTHOR OF LECTURES ON THE APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION,' PRESBYTERY AND NOT
PRELACY THE SCRIPTURAL AND PRIMITIVE POLITY," ETC.

PUBLISHED:

NEW-YORK, MARK H. NEWMAN, ROBERT CARTER, LEAVITT, TROW AND CO., AND
WILEY AND PUTNAM; PHILADELPHIA, PERKINS AND PURVES, AND WILLIAM
S. MARTIEN; CINCINNATI, WEED AND WILSON; PITTSBURGH, THOMAS
CARTER; BOSTON, CROCKER AND BREWSTER; LONDON,

WILEY AND PUTNAM; EDINBURGH, W. P. KENNEDY;
BELFAST, WILLIAM M'COMB.
1845.

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845,

BY LEAVITT, TROW & COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York.

J. F. TROW & CO., PRINTERS,

33 Ann-Street, N. Y.

WITH PECULIAR EMOTIONS OF HOPE AND JOY,

THE AUTHOR

ASSOCIATES WITH THIS VOLUME THE NAMES

OF

WILLIAM DEARING, HUGH WILSON, WILLIAM YEADON, WILLIAM C. DUKES, D. W. HARRISON, WILLIAM ADGER, AND WILLIAM HARRALL.

MAY THEIR NAMES, THROUGHOUT ETERNITY,

Be Associated with its Spiritual Advancement,