SCRIPTURE; THE FATHERS; THE SCHOOLMEN; THE REFORMERS;
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.

Show 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.

PUBLISHED:

BOSTON, CROCKER AND BREWSTER; NEW YORK, ROBERT CARTER, JONATHAN LEAVITT,
AND WILEY AND PUTNAM; PHILADELPHIA, J. WHETHAM AND SON, WILLIAM S. MARTIEN,
AND PERKINS AND PURVES; CINCINNATI, WEED AND WILSON; PITTSBURGH,
THOMAS CARTER; CHARLESTON, 8. HART, SEN., AND MCCARTER AND ALLEN;
LONDON, WILEY AND PUTNAM.

1843.

C10268.43 5

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Three, by
CROCKER & BREWSTER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

8. N. DICKINSON, PRINTER,

No. 52 Washington Street.

THIS VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

TO THE

PRESBYTERIAN, CONGREGATIONAL, REFORMED DUTCH,

GERMAN LUTHERAN, METHODIST, AND BAPTIST

DENOMINATIONS,

WHOSE

COMMON PRINCIPLES OF ECCLESIASTICAL ORDER,

IN CONTRAST WITH THOSE OF

PRELACY AND POPERY,

IT IS MAINLY DESIGNED

TO ADVOCATE.