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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. BISHOP ANDREW AND THE GENERAL CONFERENCE. THE questions involved in the case of Bishop Andrew are: The source and prerogatives of our episcopacy; whether a bishop had a right to hold slaves under the Discipline; and whether the action in this case was warranted by the law of the Church. The South affirmed, in defense of the Bishop, that the episcopacy is a co-ordinate branch of the Church, possessing certain ecclesiastical prerogatives, and receiving its authority from Mr. Wesley by ordination. This the North denied; and, on the contrary, maintained that the episcopacy is not prelatical, but the creature of the Church, deriving its powers from the body of ministers by election; the ordination of bishops being an induction into office which could be conferred by elders, and not an elevation to a third and superior order in the ministry. The South affirmed that a bishop was authorized to hold slaves under the Discipline. This the North denied. The South affirmed that the action in this case was extra-judicial and contrary to law. This the North denied. Dr. Myers devotes four chapters to the discussion of this subject. We merely refer to them severally, give his position in ample quotations, and pass to the main points at issue. The second chapter of the Disruption is Upon the General Conference of 1844, and contains but little at most, and nothing important. The author takes occasion, however, to name some of the agitators and movers of discord in the North, admits the reception of numerous antislavery petitions by the Conference, and says: '' The storm might, perhaps, have been allayed, but for what may be called a conspiracy on the part of the New England delegates. (Page 44.) According to him, the Southern members were meek as lambs and gentle as do...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217677554
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 132
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021767755X
  • Publisher Date: 05 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 249 gr


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