...occasional 'exigence of necessity' made it impossible to urge that 'without exception' ordinations required 'a lineal descent of power from the Apostles by continued succession of Bishops' ' (see pp. 333-47). The Vision of Coherent Christian Faith and Practice in a Unitive Society Non-confessional...

...some ordained, and neither hath nor can have possibly a bishop to ordain; in case of such necessity, the ordinary institution of God hath given oftentimes,...succession of bishops in every effectual ordination (EP, VII, xiv, n: 3, p. 231). Presumably Hooker envisages this regeneration of the episcopate happening...

...the Apostles by continued succession of bishops in every effec' tual ordination.' There can belittle doubt, we think, that the succession, if it ever existed,...example, let us suppose — and we are sure that no person will think the supposition by any means improbable — that, in the third century, a man of...

...there may sometimes be very just and sufficient reason to allow ordination made without a bishop. . . . Therefore we are not simply without exception to urge...succession of bishops in every effectual ordination.'* ' Let them (the bishops) continually bear in mind, that it is rather the force of custom .... than...