A modest proof of the order & government settled by Christ and his Apostles in the church. By shewing I. What sacred offices were instituted by them. II. How those offices were distinguished. III. That they were to be perpetual and standing in the church. And, IV. Who succeed in them, and rightly execute them to this day. : Recommended as proper to be put into the hands of the laity.

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Attributed to Checkley in the Dictionary of American biography.