Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Ecclesiastical Polity: Its Forms and Philosophy
The author of this work claims precedence in making at least an incipient effort, to rescue the system of church polity, from the hands of partisans, and to reduce it to a science; and perfe'ction-clbuld not be expected in a first treatise, more than in the first printing type, or steam engine and more especi ally when prepared amid a pressure of pastoral labors.
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