OR THE

REPUBLICANISM, LIBERALITY, AND CATHOLICITY

OF

PRESBYTERY,

IN CONTRAST WITH

PRELACY AND POPERY.

BY THOMAS SMYTH,

AUTHOR OF LECTURES ON THE APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION; PRESBYTERY AND
NOT PRELACY THE SCRIPTURAL AND PRIMITIVE POLITY;
ECCLESIASTICAL CATECHISM, ETC.

PUBLISHED:

AND

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

LONDON, WILEY

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.

S. N. DICKINSON, PRINTER,

No. 52 Washington Street,

TO THE

HONORABLE MITCHELL KING,

OF CHARLESTON, S. C.

THIS WORK,

IN VINDICATION OF THE CHURCH OF HIS FATHERS,

IS RESPECTFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,

BY

THE AUTHOR.

DIVINITY SCHOOL

LIBRARY.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY