THREE LECTURES, ON THE SUPPOSED 3 APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION AND AUTHORITY OF A CHRISTIAN PRIESTHOOD; DELIVERED IN GEORGE'S CHAPEL, EXETER, On the Evenings of the 19th and 26th of January, and the BY THE REV. HENRY ACTON. PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THE CONGREGATION. EXETER: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. N. WELSFORD, GANDY STREET, IN LONDON BY J. GREEN, 121, NEWGATE STREET, AND Price Two Shillings. 1840. The following Lectures are published at the special request of the Congregation with whom the Author is connected, as their minister and pastor. The very large and increasing audiences by which the delivery of the Lectures was attended, however, proves that a strong interest in the subject must be felt by numbers, belonging to various Christian denominations. The reader will bear in mind, that these Lectures were composed for a mixed, general congregation of hearers, most of whom might well be supposed to have little or no previous knowledge of the subject. On this account, some points are more succinctly treated, and others more largely illustrated, than might have been proper if the Lectures had been originally intended for the press. They are now printed, with very slight alterations only, as they were delivered. The Author leaves them to the candid judgment of such as may think proper to peruse them,-fully persuaded in his own mind, that whatever fault may be justly found with the manner in which he has executed his task, those views of the Christian dispensation for which he has here contended, are both true and important. Exeter, March 2nd, 1840. |