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This work was selected as the best text book by Dr. Archibald Alexander, D. D., Professor of Church Government, Princeton Theological Seminary.

AND

NOT PRELACY

THE

SCRIPTURAL AND

AND PRIMITIVE POLITY,

PROVED FROM THE TESTIMONIES OF

SCRIPTURE; THE FATHERS; THE SCHOOLMEN; THE REFORM-

ERS; AND THE ENGLISH AND ORIENTAL CHURCHES.

ALSO,

THE ANTIQUITY OF PRESBYTERY;

INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF

THE ANCIENT CULDEES, AND OF ST. PATRICK.

BY THOMAS SMYTH,

AUTHOR OF LECTURES ON THE APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION, ECCLESIASTICAL

REPUBLICANISM, ECCLESIASTICAL CATECHISM, ETC.

Shew them the form of the house and the fashion thereof, and the goings
out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all
the ordinances thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight,
that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof,
and do them. EZEKIEL, 43: 11.

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