The Grace of the Ministry Considered as a Divine Gift of Uninterrupted Transmission and Two-fold Character

Bell and Daldy, 1872 - 635 pages

INTRODUCTION	1

Of the power of making canons	7

Of the distinction between the office and the person of the minister	15

CHAPTER VIII	21

CHAPTER I	37

Belief in Jesus Christ as our Mediator the fundamental principle of	50

Its reality proved by the evidence of its divine origin not	67

Importance of the connection between the divine institution and subse	77

CHAPTER V	270

The twofold character under which the grace of the ministry is repre	285

50	297

The distinction involved in the twofold character of this grace	317

CHAPTER VI	329

61	342

Of official power or authority	353

In matters spiritual	368

General reasons for the probability of a transmitted commission	93

CHAPTER III	102

Of the authority due to antiquity and of the tests to be applied to	116

Testimony of antiquity to the distinction between the laity and the clergy	124

No historical evidence of the transmission of the power of ordination	131

Evidence of the transmission of this power to and by ministers of	148

Testimony concerning the power of ordaining subsequent to the appear	173

The canons of councils relating to ordination	186

Testimony of antiquity unequivocal and in accordance with that	196

CHAPTER IV	205

37	215

Testimony of antiquity to an uninterrupted transmission	216

Singularity of succession in the respective sees	225

Consideration of some objections to the evidence of an uninterrupted	243

The transmitted commission a successful instrument of propagating	262

77	410

72	462

EXTERNAL OR RELATIVE AS IT MAY BE DISTINGUISHED FROM PER	495

CHAPTER IX	508

Of the main condition on which personal assistance is dependent	521

CHAPTER X	535

Of preaching	543

888	553

Of praying	560

Of administration of the Lords Supper	568

Of demanding maintenance	590

CHAPTER XII	604

THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THOSE MINISTERED UNTO	612

CHAPTER XV	625

CHAPTER XVI	632

Titre	The Grace of the Ministry Considered as a Divine Gift of Uninterrupted Transmission and Two-fold Character
Auteur	Rev. William Denton
Rédacteur	Rev. William Denton
Éditeur	Bell and Daldy, 1872
Original provenant de	Université de Columbia
Numérisé	20 mai 2009
Longueur	635 pages

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