 | Luke Tyerman - 1872 - 736 pages
...of the secondary character alleged ? He says in his circular letter respecting Coke's ordination, " For many years I have been importuned, from time to...time, to exercise this right by ordaining part of our traveling preachers ; but I have still refused, not only for peace' sake, but because I was determined... | |
 | Samuel Woolcock Christophers - 1873 - 310 pages
...on the question of clerical ordination. "Lord King's Account of the Primitive Church," says Wesley, "convinced me, many years ago, that Bishops and Presbyters...order, and consequently have the same right to ordain." Howe, who was ordained by a Presbyter, assisted by his colleagues, used to say, " There are few men... | |
 | John Harris - 1874 - 280 pages
...spoken on the other Bide of the question. In 1784 he said: "Lord King's account of the Primitive Church convinced me many years ago, that bishops and presbyters...order, and consequently have the same right to ordain." In 1785 he said again : " I firmly believe I am a Scriptural episcopos as much as any man in England... | |
 | John Henry Blunt - 1874 - 674 pages
...superintendents," and the others " elders," and by alleging " Lord King's account of the Primitive Church convinced me many years ago that bishops and presbyters...order, and consequently have the same right to ordain:" and this Methodists when Lord King himself had recanted his unliistorical notion. He also excused himself... | |
 | James Porter - 1875 - 528 pages
...bishop, and thus authorize him to ordain others, why did he apologize for the act by saying that he " had been importuned, from time to time, to exercise this right by ordaining some of our travelling preachers," and by saying, that in America, there are no " bishops who have... | |
 | James Porter - 1875 - 514 pages
...bishop, and thus authorize him to ordain others, why did he apologize for the act by saying that he " had been importuned, from time to time, to exercise this right by ordaining some of our travelling preachers," and by saying, that in America, there are no " bishops who have... | |
 | John Patterson Lundy - 1876 - 540 pages
...King's account of the primitive Church convinced me many years ago, that Bishops and Presbyters are of the same order, and consequently, have the same right...preachers. But I have still refused, not only for peace's sake, but because I was determined, as little as 1 Loud., 1713. possible, to violate the established... | |
 | John McClintock - 1876 - 1014 pages
...compliance with their desire, I have drawn up a little nketch. "Lord King's Account of tho Primitive Church convinced me, many years ago, that bishops and presbyters...ordain. For many years I have been importuned, from tone to time, to exercu*e this right, by ordaining part of onr travelling preachers. But I have still... | |
 | James Robinson Graves - 1876 - 164 pages
...the Church. In his works, vol. vii. p. 311, he says: " Lord King-s account of the Primitive Church convinced me many years ago, that bishops and presbyters...SAME ORDER, and consequently have the same right to ordaiu." This is a full and frank confession, and if his convictions are correct, the claims of a Methodist... | |
 | 1877 - 588 pages
...a pastoral letter to the American Churches, AD 1745 : ' Lord King's account of the primitive Church convinced me many years ago that bishops and presbyters are the same order, and consequently have the right to ordain.' In a letter to his brother Charles on the same subject, he writes : ' I firmly believe... | |
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Lord King's Account of the Primitive Church convinced me, many years ago, that bishops and presbyters are the same order, and consequently have the same right to ordain. 
