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glory; they were the means of grace to my ancestors and friends who have gone before me, they have supported me in my troubles, and carried me through many temptations.O, that I could conform my soul more thoroughly to the disposition and sentiments which they contain and enjoin. I leave them as my best legacy to my children, that when they join fervently in them, they may know how their father felt, and learn to feel in devotion, as he did; and as all good Christians have done who have gone this way before them.

In the Episcopal church the minister generally performs the service in one place and preaches in another; and at one time he is dressed in a white surplice, at another time he is dressed in a black gown. The reason is, that he sustains two different offices, viz. that of a Priest and that of a Prophet.When he is peforming the service, he is exercising the office of a priest: he is in the reading desk, and is dressed in white, and is then speaking to the Almighty in behalf of himself and of the people. White is to shew how pure the office of the priesthood is, and how pure our hearts and lives should be when we address a God of infinite purity and holiness. He then goes into the pulpit and is dressed in black, and is exercising the office of a prophet, and is speaking to the people in behalf of the Almighty; warning them of their danger, and pointing out to them their duty. Black is to shew how grave the office of a prophet is, and how solemn the important embassy is which he is about to deliver to a guilty world in God's

name.

If we take a geographical view of every part of the habitable world, where shall we find any nation or country which have embraced the Christian faith, or do now embrace it, where the Episcopal church has not been received and acknowledged as the true medium through which we must enter into the kingdom of glory. Almost as universally as the Bible has been received, so universally has the government of the Christian church by bishops, as the successors of the Apostles, been received, until Korah-like, it was said that the whole congregation were holy, every one of them, &c. and for opposing this and an oppressive union of church and state, I have suffered two years imprisonment, and do now suffer the

loss of all things. The Episcopal church is now and always has been the established religion of Norway, of Denmark and of Sweden; of Iceland and Greenland; of Germany and the whole Russian empire; of Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and Poland; of Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy. The Roman Catholics are Episcopalians, and perform the same worship that we do, and a great deal more, which we say is idolatrous, superstitious, and anti-christian. The Greek church in Turkey in Europe, and in Asia, is an Episcopal church. The Lutherans are Episcopalians, and so are the Methodists.England, Ireland, and a great part of Scotland, are Episcopalians The East Indies, the West Indies, and a very great part of the United States, are Episcopalians. Yet Mr. Lanman says, it is only the pretended Christian religion.

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Let any man take a map of the world, and put his finger on any part of the habitable globe, where the Christian religion has been received and acknowledged,and there the Episcopal church has also been received and acknowledged as a part of it. I appeal to every man of common science, truth, and candor, as a witness of the truth of what I say. Because are some republicans in England, it will not be correct to say that England is a republic. Because there are some Monarchists in the United States, it will not be correct to say that they are a Monarchy. Because there are some Presbyterians and others, in Europe, and because there are some Congregational Presbyterians, and others, in Connecticut, and elsewhere, it will not be correct to say that the Christian church is not an Episcopal church. Of all the different sectaries and persuasions, we know the time when they began, we know the place where they began, and we know the persons by whom they began. Now let any one do this of the Episcopal church, short of Moses and Aaron in the Jewish church, and short of our Saviour aud the Apostles in the Christian church and the controversy will be at an end. We name every High Priest IN SUCCESSION from Aaron to Christ, and every Bishop IN SUCCESSION from Christ to this present day. Christ has been with them always, and the gates of hell, according to divine promise. have not prevailed. Aaron was appointed and invested with authority to

act in God's name, 1491 years before Christ, and the authority was handed down in the following SUCCESSION, collected with great care and labor from the Holy Scriptures, Josephus, and other writers, viz.

1 Aaron.
2 Eleazer.

3 Phineas.

4 Abishua.

5 Bukki. 6 Uzzi.

7 Zerachiah, 8 Meracoth. 9 Amariah. 10 Ahitub. 11 Zadock. 12 Ahimaaz, 13 Azariah. 14 Johanan.

15 Azariah.

16 Amariah.

17 Ahitub. 18 Zadoc.

19 Shallum.

20 Hilkiah.

21 Azariah.

22 Saraiah.

28 Jonathan.

29 Jaddus.

30 Onias, 1.
31 Simon the Just.
32 Eleazer, II.
33 Manasses.

34 Onias, II.
35 Simon, II.
36 Onias, III.
37 Jason.
38 Manelaus.
39 Lysmanchus.
40 Aleimus.
41 Matathias.
42 Judas Macabeus
43 Jonathas.
44 Simon, III

45 John called Hir

can.

46 Aristobulus.
47 Alex'r. Jannius.
48 Hyrcan.

23 Jehozadock, who 49 Aristobulus.
was taken captive 50 Hyrcan.
and carried into 51 Antigonus.
Babylon 399 years 52 Ananal.
before the birth of 53 Aristobulus.
Christ, and was suc- 54 Ananel.
ceeded by

59 Eleazar, III.
60 Jesus son of Sias,
61 Ishmael.
62 Eleazer, IV.
63 Simon.

64 Caiaphas, who
was High Priest
when Christ was
crucified.

65 Jonathus & Theophilus.

66 Simon, sirnamed
Canthus.

67 Matthias, II.
68 Elionee.

69 Simon Cantheas,
70 Joseph call'dCa-
ba.

71 Ananus.

72 Ishmael.

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55 Jesu son of Pha- 78 Phanassus

bes.

24 Josia.
25 Joakim.

26 Eliashil.

27 Jehoida, II.

56 Simon.

57 Matthias.

58 Joazar.

Jesus Christ was baptized when he was

Jerusalem was taken from the Jews, A. D. 61.

30 years of age,

and that, according to the law of Moses, was his consecration

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or ordination. A voice then came from Heaven, saying, this
is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, hear ye Him;
he was invested with authority to act in God's name, which
has been transmitted with the Holy Scriptures from Christ to
the present time, 1826, in the following SUCCESSION, viz.
A. D.
A. D.

30 Jesus Christ.
44 St. Peter set-
tled in Rome.

59 St. Paul came

to England.
70 Linus.
81 Cletus.
93 Clemens.
103 Anacletus.
112 Euarestus.
121 Alexander.
132 Sextus.
142 Telesphorus.
154 Hygenus.
158 Pius.

167 Anicetus.
175 Soter.
179 Eleatherus.
194 Victor.
203 Zepherinus.
221 Calistus.
227 Urbanus.

A. D.

297 Marcellinus.
304 Marcellus.
309 Eusebius.
311 Miltiades.
314 Sylvester.
336 Marcus.
337 Julius.
352 Liberinus.
385 Felix, II.
398 Anastricus.
402 Innocentius,
417 Zozimus.
419 Bonifacius, I.
424 Celestinus.
432 Sextus, III.
440 Leo Magnus.
461 S. Hilarichus.

468 Simplicius.
483 Felix, III.
492 S. Gelasius.
497 Anastasius.
499 Symmachus.

233 Pontianus.

514 Hormisda.

238 Antherus.

524 Joannis, I.

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578 Pelagius.
590 Gregorius
Magnus.
596 Augustinus
Monachus.

614 Laurentius.
619 Melitus.
624 Justus.
634 flonorius.
654 Adeodatus.
668 Theodorus.
693 Brithwaldus.
731 Fatwinus.
735 Northelmus.
740 Cuthbertus.
759 Bregwinus.
762 Lambertus.
791 Athelandus.
804 Wolfredus.
829 Thecgildus.
830 Ceolnathus.
871 Atheldridus.
889 Pleagmundis.
915 Athelmus.
924 Wolfelmus.
934 Odo.
959 Dunstan.
988 Ethelgarus.
990 Siricius.
993 Alfricus.
1006 Elfigus.
1013 Livingus.
1020 Agelnathus.

1038 Eadlinus. 1050 Robertus. 1052 Stigandus.

1070 Lanfrancus. 1089 Anselm.

1367 W.Whittlesey Thomas Herring. 1375 S. Sudbury.

Thomas Sekcer.

1381 Wm.Courtney S. Cornwallis, 1396 Thos. Arundel J. Moore. 1414 H. Chichiley. 1114 Rodolphus. 1443 John Stafford. 1122 Wm. Carboyl. 1452 John Kemp. 1138 Theobaldus. 1454 T. Bourchier. 1162 Thos. Becket. 1486 John Morton. 117: R. Monachus. 1502 Henry Dean. 1184 Baldwin. 1504 Wm. Warham 1191 R.F. Jocelyn. 1533 THOS. CRAN1193 Hu'rt. Walter.

MER.

1200 Stph. Langton 1555 Reginald Pool
1229 R.Wethershed 1559 Mat. Parker.
1234 Edmond.
1244 Boniface.

1575 Edm. Grindal
1583 Jno. Whitgift.

1273 Rt. Kilwarby. 1605 Rd. Bancroft. 1278 Jno. Peckam. 1610 G. Abbott. 1295 Robert Win- 1633 Wm. Laud. 1660 Wm. Jaston.

chelsey.

1313 W. Reynolds. 1992 James Sharp. 1327 S. Mepham. Gilbert Shelton.

1333 Jno.Stratford. William Sancroft. 1248 Thoms Brad- J. Tillotson.

warden. Thomas Tennison. 1349 Simon Islipp. William Wake. 1366 S. Langham. J. Potter.

SAMUEL PROVOOST, the first Bishop in N. York, and by whom was огdained. Benjamin Moore. J. H. Hobart, the present Bishop of N. Y. 1826. SAML. SEABURY was the first Bishop in Conn. who succeeded by Abrhm. Jarvis, who was succeeded by Thomas C. Brownell, the present Bishop, 1826. Bishops in Massachusetss.

was

Rt. Rev. Dr. Bass.

Parker. Griswold.

Eusebius, in his Ecclesiastical History, page 606, Folio, Greek and Latin edition, has furnished the names of the Bishops who succeeded the Apostles in many of the most important churches for about 500 years after Christ. And the foregoing succession is supported by him, by Mason and Lindsley on the English Ministry, Cave's Lives of the Fathers, Dupin, Echard, Warner, &c. &c. and by history in general: so that if Ierr, it is in good company. The fact, however, is undeniable, that the Bible and Episcopal church have beentransmitted together in every part of the world, and to deny this, is to deny the holy scriptures. How do we know that the

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