(LATE FELLOW.COMMONER) OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

SECOND EDITION.

“ Persecution for diversity of opinions, however ridiculous and absurd they may be, is
contrary to every principle of sound policy and civil freedom. The names and subordination of
the clergy, the posture of devotion, the materials and colour of the ministers' garment, the
joining in a known or unknown form of prayer, and other matters of the same kind, must be left
to the option of every man's private judgment."'_BLACKSTONE.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM STRANGE,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

INTRODUCTION—Origin of the present Work-Letter to Dr.

Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, containing a caution
against acting with prejudice-His Grace's Letter in reply
-Interview with the Archbishop-Remarks on the same-
Letter to his Majesty, as Supreme Head of the Church of
England, on episcopal intolerance as connected with ordina-
tion–His Secretary, Lord Melbourne's Reply-Act of Supre-
macy-Stricture on Lord Melbourne's Letter-Design of the
work-Concluding Reflections.

CHAP.

PAGR

I. The Origin and Gradual Advance of Papal

Tyranny in England .

1

II. The Progressive Power and Usurpation of

Bishops

13

III. The Inquisition (a digression)-Progressive

Power and Usurpation of Bishops, continued 26

IV. The Progressive Power and Usurpation of

Bishops, concluded

41

V. Episcopal Power and Usurpation founded on

the Weakness of Human Nature

54

VI. Episcopal Power and Usurpation inconsistent

with the Gospel of Christ

63

VII. Bishops and Presbyters originally the same

Order

80

VIII. The Uninterrupted Succession of the Clergy

refuted

91

IX. The Uninterrupted Succession of the Clergy

refuted, concluded

99

X. History of Tithes

106

XI: History of Tithes, concluded

118

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