OVER THE CHURCH, CONSIDERED AS TO ITS ORIGIN, AND ITS CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS; BEING AN EXPANSION OF THE AUTHOR'S FORMER TREATISE ON THE SUPREMACY QUESTION, OCCASIONED BY THE CLAIMS RECENTLY PREFERRED IN THE NAME OF THE CROWN IN REFERENCE TO EPISCOPAL PROMOTIONS. PRECEDED BY A DEDICATORY EPISTLE TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, M.P. P.C. FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY, &c. &c. BY THE REV. G. E. BIBER, LL.D. Τοῦτο τοὺς μὲν ἐκκλησιαστικοὺς κανόνας παραλύει, τὰ δὲ ἔθνη ἀναγ κάζει βλασφημεῖν καὶ ὑπονοεῖν, ὅτι μὴ κατὰ θεῖον θεσμὸν, ἀλλ ̓ ἐξ ἐμπορίας καὶ προστασίας αἱ καταστάσεις γίγνονται.—ATHANAS. Epist. Encycl. ad Episc. c. ii. LONDON: FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, |