 | William Carpenter Wisner - Apostolic succession - 1844 - 246 pages
...years after Christ," undertakes to show, " That a presbyter in the primitive church meant a person in holy orders, having thereby an inherent right to perform the whole office of a bishop, and differing from a bishop in nothing but in having no parish or pastoral charge : that presbyters,... | |
 | William Carpenter Wisner - 1844 - 188 pages
...years after Christ," undertakes to show, " That a presbyter in the primitive church meant a person in holy orders, having thereby an inherent right to perform the whole office of a bishop, and differing from a bishop in nothing but in having no parish or pastoral charge : that presbyters,... | |
 | James Moir Porteous - 1872 - 614 pages
...apostolic bishops resided with their flocks.' His definition of a presbyter is this — ' A person in holy orders, having thereby an inherent right to perform the whole office of a bishop ; but being possessed of no place or parish, nor actually discharging it, without the permission... | |
 | Thomas E. Thoresby - 1867 - 798 pages
...whole flock received the sacrament from him." — P. 18. "Definition of a Presbyter — viz., a person in holy orders, having thereby an inherent right to perform the whole office of a Bishop." — P. 53. " The Presbyters were the Bishops' curates and assistants, and so inferior to them... | |
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A Person in Holy Orders, having thereby an inherent Right to perform the whole Office of a Bishop ; but being possessed of no Place or Parish, not actually discharging it, without the Permission and Consent of the Bishop of a Place or Parish. 
