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• Organic Christianity : or, The church of God with its officers and government and its divisions and variations both in ancient medieval and modern times embracing a thorough exposition and defence of church democracy (J.P. Jewett, 1854), by Leicester A. Sawyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The scriptural argument against Apostolical succession : in its fabulous genealogy, its claim of supremacy for Peter, its graduated scale of ministerial orders, and its perversion of the rite of "Laying on of hands." In four lectures (London : J. Snow, 1845., 1845), by Thomas Stratten (page images at HathiTrust)

• The determination of the qvestion, concerning the divine right of episcopacie. By the famous and learned divine Dr. Abrahamus Scultetus, late professour of divinity in the University of Heidelberg. Faithfully translated out of his observations upon the epistles to Timothy and Titus. (London, : Printed for Nathaniel Butler, 1641), by Abraham Scultetus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• Apostolic Christianity: or, The People's Antidote Against Romanism and Puseyism (London: J. Snow, et al., 1842), by James Godkin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Essay on Apostolical Succession: Being a Defence of a Genuine Protestant Ministry, Against the Exclusive and Intolerant Schemes of Papists and High Churchmen; and Supplying a General Antidote to Popery (with other pieces; second edition; New York: G. Lane and P. P. Sandford, 1842), by Thomas Powell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Primacy of the Apostolic See, and the Authority of General Councils, Vindicated in a Series of Letters Addresses to the Right Rev. J. H. Hopkins, D.D. (Philadelphia: J. Kay, et al., 1838), by Francis Patrick Kenrick (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Episcopal bishops, the successors of the apostles. The sermon preached in St. Paul's church, Detroit, on Sunday, February 19, 1842, at the ordination of the Reverend Montgomery Schuyler, to the priesthood, and Sabin Hough and Edward Hodgkin, to the deaconship (M. Bates, printer, 1842), by Samuel Allen McCoskry (page images at HathiTrust)
• James the Lord's brother: whose son was he?. (D. Dana, jr., 1858), by Chauncey W. Fitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Canterbury to Connecticut. (Church missions publishing company, 1941), by Edgar Legare Pennington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prelatical doctrine of apostolical succession examined, and the Protestant ministry defended against the assumptions of popery and high-churchism, in a series of lectures. (Boston : Crocker & Brewster; New York : Dayton & Saxton; [etc., etc.], 1841., 1841), by Thomas Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolical succession in the Church of England (Rivingtons, 1887), by Arthur W. Haddan (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for apostolic order and its advocates. In a series of letters addressed to the Rev. John M. Mason ... (Stanford & Swords;, 1844), by John Henry Hobart (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the doctrine of apostolical succession: with an appendix, on the English orders. (New York : Protestant Episcopal tract society, 1840., 1840), by A. P. Perceval (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walonis Messalini [pseud.] De episcopis et presbyteris, contra D. Petavium Loiolitam dissertatio prima. (ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1641), by Claude Saumaise (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for apostolic order and its advocates, occasioned by the strictures and denunciations of the Christian's magazine : in a series of letters, addressed to the Rev. John M. Mason, D.D., the editor of that work (Printed by J. and J. Swords, 1807), by John Henry Hobart and John M. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The claims of "Episcopal bishops" examined in a series of letters, addressed to the Rev. S.A. McCoskry ... (Morgan Bates, printer, 1842), by George Duffield and Morgan Bates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolic succession examined ([publisher not identified], 1843), by William Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• Review of the Rev. George Duffield's letters : addressed to the Right Reverend Samuel A. McCoskry, (Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Churches of Michigan,) on the apostolic succession of ordination (Printed at the Times Office, 1842), by Samuel Allen McCoskry and Layman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictorial illustrations of apostolical succession (Ezra Collier, 1844), by William Page (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Catholic churches and reunion. (London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York : Macmillan Co., 1927., 1927), by C. B. Moss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on apostolical succession in the Church of England, being an exposition and application of the teaching of the late Rev. Arthur West Haddan ... in his treatise on that subject (Rivingtons, 1869) (Crothers and Korth, 1893), by William Jones Seabury and Arthur West Haddan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church and the ministry. (Longmans, Green and Co., 1919), by Charles Gore and C. H. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Church of Sweden and the Anglican Communion (The Young Churchman Co., 1910), by G. Mott Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Episcopal bishops, the successors of the apostles : the sermon preached in St. Paul's Church, Detroit, on Sunday, February 19, 1842, at the ordination of the Reverend Montgomery Schuyler, to the priesthood, and Sabin Hough and Edward Hodgkin, to the deaconship (Morgan Bates, 1842), by Samuel Allen McCoskry (page images at HathiTrust)
• La controverse de l'apostolicité des églises de France au XIXe siècle (A. Fontemoing, 1901), by Albert Houtin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Does the Protestant Episcopal church teach the exclusive validity of Episcopal orders? (Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1850), by William Goode and Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on apostolical succession; being a defense of a genuine protestant ministry; ... and supplying a general antidote to popery ... (Ward, 1840), by Thomas Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whose are the fathers? : or, the teaching of certain Anglo-Catholics, on the church and its ministry, contrary alike to the Holy Scriptures, to the fathers of the first six centuries, and to those of the Reformed Church of England ; with a catena patrum of the first six centuries and of the English church of the latter half of the sixteenth century (Longmans, Green, 1867), by John Harrison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Claims of a Protestant Episcopal bishop to apostolical succession and valid orders disproved : (Catholic publication company, 1880), by Stephen Vincent Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church and the ministry (Longmans, Green, 1900), by Charles Gore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The primacy of the apostolic see vindicated (J. Murphy, 1857), by Francis Patrick Kenrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Episcopacy tested by Scripture. (The Protestant Episcopal tract society, 1860), by Henry U. Onderdonk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolical succession : a correspondence between the Rev. Joseph Hammond, LL.B., vicar of St. Austell, and the Rev. William Boulter, Congregational minister : with the leading articles of the Nonconformist and independent and the Church in the West newspapers thereon. (Elliot Stock ;, 1884), by Joseph Hammond and William Boulter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essay on apostolical succession : being a defense of a genuine Protestant ministry against the exclusive and intolerant schemes of the papist and high churchmen : and supplying a general antidote to popery : also, a critique on the apology for apostolical succession by ... A.P. Perceval ... and a review of Dr. W.D. Hook's sermon ... (Published for the author by T. Ward, 1840), by Thomas Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• End of prelacy : or, A treatise on ministerial parity and the non-efficacy of sacramental grace, versus the Romanism of the prelatical dogma of an unbroken succession and its cognate, sacramentarianis, papal tractarian and high and low church ... (New York : Scribner, 1852., 1852), by R. C. Shimeall (page images at HathiTrust)
• S. Peter, bishop of Rome; or, The Roman episcopate of the prince of the apostles. Proved from the fathers, history, and archaeology, and illustrated by arguments from other sources. (Burns and Oates ;, 1888), by Thomas Livius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Pall from the body of the blessed Peter : a pledge for the unity of the Catholic faith, a sermon preached at the church of the London Oratory, August 16, 1892, at the solemn investiture of the most Rev. Herbert Vaughan ... (St. Anselm's Society, 1892), by Francis Aidan Gasquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early church and the Roman Claim : lectures (Melbourne, Melville : Mullen and Slade, 1896., 1896), by J. Lawrence Rentoul (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true historic episcopate : as seen in the original constitution of the Church of Alexandria (New York ; London : Funk & Wagnalls, 1890., 1890), by Mason Gallagher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolical succession in the Church of England (Rivingtons;, 1869), by Arthur West Haddan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on apostolical succession in the Church of England; being an exposition and application of the teaching of the late Rev. Arthur West Haddan ... in his treatise on that subject (Rivingtons, 1869) (R.W. Crothers, 1898), by William Jones Seabury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pamphlets for the people in illustration of the claims of the Church and Methodism (Hooker, 1854), by Presbyter of Mississippi, Justus, and R. Abbey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ministry of the Christian church (Rivingtons, 1889), by Charles Gore (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the scriptural view of the constitution of a Christian church, and its relation to the church universal : also into the evidence respecting the alleged fact of apostolical succession (London : Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley, 1846., 1846), by William Albin Garratt (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on apostolical succession : being a defence of a genuine protestant ministry, against the exclusive and intolerant schemes of papists and high churchmen, and supplying a general antidote to popery : also, a critique on the Apology for apostolical succession (G. Lane :, 1846), by Thomas Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Whither goest thou? or, Some historical facts related to current events and present tendencies, addressed to Anglicans and their Anglo-American co-religionists, together with others who may sincerely wish to inquire for the old paths and return to Catholic unity (Christian press association publishing company, 1902), by B. F. DeCosta (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on the principles and institutions of the Roman Catholic religion : with an appendix containing historical and critical illustrations (Printed for Burton and Smith, 1823), by Joseph Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolical succession / Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (G.J. Palmer, 32, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1876), by Richard Frederick Littledale (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to a Methodist (D. Brunner, 1844), by Norris M. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to the Hon. and Rev. A.P. Perceval, B.C.L., Chaplain in ordinary to the queen : occasioned by his recent publication on what is commonly denominated Apostolical Succession. (S. Cornish and Co., 1839), by A. P. Perceval (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of the Tracts for the times, by members of the University of Oxford, so far as they relate to apostolical succession. (Jackson and Walford, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orders and unity (John Murray, 1909), by Charles Gore (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dissertation on the validity of the ordinations of the English : and of the succession of the bishops of the Anglican Church : with the proofs establishing the facts advanced in this work. The old translation of Mr. Williams collated throughout with the original, and in consequence almost entirely rewritten ... (London ; Oxford : J.H. Parker, 1844., 1844), by Pierre François Le Courayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The prelatical doctrine of the apostolical succession examined: with a delineation of the High-Church system (Philadelphia : W.S.Martien; New York : R. Carter; [etc.], 1844., 1844), by Henry A. Boardman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discourses on the apostolical succession. (Stedman & Redfield, 1844), by William D. Snodgrass (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the doctrine of apostolical succession : with an appendix, on the English orders (Protestant Episcopal tract society, 1839), by A. P. Perceval (page images at HathiTrust)
• The grace of the ministry considered as a divine gift of uninterrupted transmission and two-fold character (E.P. Dutton, 1880), by William Denton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plain footprints, or, Divers orders traced in the Scriptures (J. Pott, 1885), by Heman R. Timlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christ's warning to the churches; with an appendix on the Apostolical succession ... (Alexander V. Blake, 1844), by Joseph Lathrop (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on apostolical succession, being a defence of a genuine protestant ministry, against the exclusive and intolerant schemes of papists and high churchmen; and supplying a general antidote to popery: also, a critique on The apology for apostolical succession (G. Lane & P. P. Sandford, 1842), by Thomas Powell and Walter Farquhar Hook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pseudo-Isidorus et Turrianus vapulantes : seu, editio et censura nova epistolarum omnium quas, piissimis Vrbis Romae praesulibus à B. Clemente ad Siricium, &c. nefando ausu, infelici euentu, Isidorus cognomento Mercator supposuit, Franciscus Turrianus Iesuita, aduersus Magdeburgensium [elenchou], aculeato stylo defendere conatus est (Ex typographia Petri Chouët, 1628), by David Blondel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Episcopacy examined and re-examined, comprising the tract "Episcopacy tested by Scripture", and the controversy concerning that publication. (New York : Protestant Episcopal tract society, 1835., 1835), by Henry U. Onderdonk and Albert Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apostolical jurisdiction and succession of the episcopacy in the British churches vindicated against the objections of Dr. Wiseman in the Dublin review. (Rivington, 1840), by William Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sermons to presbyterians of all sects : supplementary to Sermons upon the ministry, worship and doctrines of the Protestant Episcopal Church (F.J. Huntington, 1836), by George T. Chapman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolical succession in the Church of England (Rivington;, 1870), by Arthur West Haddan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Episcopal controversy reviewed. (T. Mason and G. Lane, 1838), by John Emory and Robert Emory (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church's argument for Christianity, or, The apostolic succession : maintained and exhibited as evidence for the truth of the Christian religion (J.A. Sparks, 1845), by William Bullein Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orders and unity (Dutton, 1909), by Charles Gore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church doctrine, Bible truth (Pott, Young, 1892), by M. F. Sadler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on apostolical succession, addressed to Bishop Green, of Mississippi. Occasioned by the publication of his recent sermon on that subject. (Published by E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen, Agents for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1855), by Richard Abbey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spiritual lineage of the Christian church and ministry (C.H. Kelly, 1899), by Thos. F. Lockyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kingdom of Christ (Longmans, Green, 1912), by Richard Whately (page images at HathiTrust)
• Claims of a Protestant Episcopal bishop to Apostolical succession and valid orders disproved : with various misstatements of Catholic Faith, and numerous charges against the Church, and Holy see, corrected and refuted (Catholic Publication Company, 1880), by Stephen Vincent Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papal aims and papal claims : with remarks on apostolic succession (S. Sonnenschein, 1902), by Edward Garnet Man (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anglican orders. (Eugene Cummiskey, 1848), by Peter Richard Kenrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for apostolic order and its advocates : in a series of letters addressed to the Rev. John M. Mason, D.D. (Stanford & Swords, 1844), by John Henry Hobart (page images at HathiTrust)
• A reply to the bishop of Exeter's second arraignment of his metropolitan in his letter to the archdeacon of Toines, oppugning the validity of the orders of the foreign non-Episcopal churches. To which is annexed, A rejoinder to chancellor Harington on the same subject. (T. Hatchard, 1852), by W Goode and Henry Phillpotts (page images at HathiTrust)
• An apology for the doctrine of apostolical succession: with an appendix, on the English orders. (Printed for J.G.F. & J. Rivington, 1841), by A. P. Perceval and Protestant Episcopal Tract Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on apostolical succession : being a defence of a genuine protestant ministry ... : also, a critique on The apology for apostolical succession by A.P. Perceval, and a review of Dr. W.F. Hook's sermon on "Hear the church" (Lane & Scott, 1848), by Thomas Powell and Walter Farquhar Hook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vox ecclesiae : or, The doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church on episcopacy and apostolical succession, embracing a refutation of the work know as "Goode on orders." (Smith, English, 1866), by William Goode (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reply to the Rev. R. I. Wilberforce's Principles of church authority (T. Bosworth, 1855), by Henry Drummond, Robert Isaac Wilberforce, and Catholic Apostolic Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psevdo-Isidorvs et Tvrrianvs vapvlantes, seu, Editio et censvra nova epistolarum omnium (Ex typographia Petri Chouët, 1628), by David Blondel (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to a Methodist (Re-published for the Church Society of the Diocese of Toronto, at the Diocesan Press, 1844), by Norris M. Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• From apostle to priest a study of early church organization (T. & T. Clark, 1900), by James W. Falconer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to the editor of The Church, in answer to his remarks on the Rev. Thomas Powell's Essay on apostolical succession ([s.n.], 1843), by Matthew Richey and Thomas Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• On apostolic succession (s.n.], 1876), by Walter Windeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Claims of a Protestant Episcopal bishop to apostolical succession and valid orders disproved with various misstatements of Catholic faith and numerous charges against the Church and Holy See, corrected and refuted (Catholic Pub. Co., 1880), by S. V. Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• A certain portion of my journal, entitled Truth defended, Father, Son and Holy Ghost against the world, the flesh, and the devil and apostolic succession contrasted with the opposite (J. Collins, 1856), by John Collins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolic succession a review of the claims of the Established Church, considered as an apostolical institution, and especially as an authorised interpreter of Holy Scripture. (s.n.], 1840) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The character and fatal tendency of Puseyism, defined and exposed being a course of lectures delivered in the Temperance Street Chapel, Toronto (T.T. Howard, 1850), by William McClure (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Anglican Church and the doctrine of apostolic succession (E.M. Renouf, 1907), by Herbert Symonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire j'éprouve un vrai bonheur à vous annoncer qu'il a plu à N.S. Père le pape Pie IX de m'accorder pour coadjuteur, Monsieur Charles-François Baillargeon .. (s.n., 1851), by Église catholique. Archidiocèse de Québec. Archevêque (1850- 1867 : Turgeon) and Pierre-Flavien Turgeon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diocese of Huron thoughts on the coming episcopal election. (s.n., 1883), by Church of England. Diocese of Huron. Bishop (1872-1883 : Hellmuth) and I. Hellmuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'épiscopat, la prêtrise, le diaconat sermon prêché à l'Église du Rédempteur, le 23 février, 1902, veille de St. Matthias (s.n., 1902), by Henry E. Benoit (page images at HathiTrust)
• La succession apostolique sermon prononcé dans la basilique d'Ottawa à l'occasion de l'intronisation de Sa Grandeur Monseigneur Charles Hugues Gauthier, le 22 février 1911 (s.n., 1911), by J.-M. Émard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Church and the ministry. (Rivingtons, 1889), by Charles Gore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Ursprung und die Bedeutung des Apostolates in der christlichen Kirche der ersten zwei Jahrhunderte : eine kritisch-historische Untersuchung auf Grund der Schriften des Neuen Testaments und der weiteren christlichen Literatur. Eine von der Haager Gesellschaft zur Vertheidigung der christlichen Religion gekrönte Preisschrift (Brill, 1887), by Wilhelm Seufert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Claims of a Protestant Episcopal bishop to apostolical succession and valid orders disproved: with various misstatements of Catholic faith and numerous charges against the church and Holy See, corrected and refuted. (Catholic Publication Company, 1880), by Stephen Vincent Ryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• De origine episcopatus : Dissertatio ... (Excudebat J. Van Linthout, 1900), by Andreas Michiels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libellus retractationum. (ex Typographia vaticana, 1905), by Francesco Segna (page images at HathiTrust)
• The validity of non-prelatical ordination (Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-school Work, 1897), by George Park Fisher (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on apostolical succession. (G. Lane & C.B. Tippett for the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1846), by Thomas Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on apostolical succession, addressed to Bishop Green, of Mississippi : occasioned by the publication of his recent sermon on that subject. (Southern Methodist publishing house, 1882), by R. Abbey (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on apostolical succession, being a defence of a genuine protestant ministry, against the exclusive and intolerant schemes of papists and high churchmen; and supplying a general antidote to popery: also, a critique on The apology for apostolical succession (G. Lane & P.P. Sandford, 1842), by Thomas Powell and Walter Farquhar Hook (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolic order and unity. (T. & T. Clark, 1903), by Robert Bruce (page images at HathiTrust)
• A refutation of the doctrine of uninterrupted apostolic succession, with a correction of errors concerning Rev. John Wesley and Dr. Coke. In answer to the Rev. G.T. Chapman, D.D., and others. (A.S. Tilden, printer], 1844), by Richard Tydings (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'origine de l'épiscopat : études sur la fondation de l'église, l'oeuvre des apotres et le développement de l'épiscopat aux deux premiers siècles (J. van Linthout, 1900), by Andreas Michiels (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ministry of reconciliation, its authority and responsibility : the primary charge delivered to the clergy of Indiana, delivered in St. Paul's Church, New Albany, at the opening of the Annual Diocesan Convention, on Thursday, May 11, 1854 (Austin H. Brown & Co., printers, 1854), by George Upfold and Ind.) Methodist Episcopal Church. Diocesan Convention (1854 : New Albany (page images at HathiTrust)
• The end of the apostolic succession : a debate between Messrs. Yerger and Smedes, editors of the Church herald, Vicksburg, and the Rev. R. Abbey, in which the high church doctrine of a chain of successive ordinations is clearly and specifically surrendered (Nashville, Tenn. : Published by E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen, Agents, for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1855., 1855), by R. Abbey, Thomas O. Summers, W. C. Smedes, George S. Yerger, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and E. Stevenson & F.A. Owen (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An original church of Christ (Published by T. Mason and G. Lane, for the Methodist Episcopal church, 1837), by Nathan Bangs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apostolical succession in the Church of England (Rivingtons, 1883), by Arthur W. Haddan (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Canterbury to Connecticut; a biographical dictionary of the nonjuring bishops of England and Scotland (Church Missions Publishing Company, 1941), by Edgar Legare Pennington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Apostolic succession and the problem of unity (University Press, 1905), by Edward McCrady (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unity of the church ; The ministry ; The apostolical succession (D. Tilton Bigelow, 1852), by James Hervey Otey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pattern of ecclesiastical ordination or apostolick separation : a discourse upon Acts the 13. 4, 5 ... (London : Printed by J.G. for Richard Royston, 1664., 1664), by Edward Wakeman and Puritan Collection of English and American Literature (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the theology of the Anglican Reformers : with extracts from their writings on the doctrines of apostolical succession, holy baptism, the holy eucharist, predestination, faith and works ... (London : Hope and Co., 1852., 1852), by William Houghton and Baptism Controversy Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prelacy examined : being strictures upon three discourses, entitled "The unity of the church; The ministry; The apostolical succession (New Orleans : A. Bruslé, 1844., 1844), by R. L. Stanton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A vindication of the episcopal succession (Harrisburg : Theo. Fenn, printer, 1844., 1844), by Henry Major (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hierarchial despotism : sophisms of the apostolic succession examined and refuted by the word of God, Lecture IV (New York : Saxton & Miles, 844 [that is, 1844], 1844), by George B. Cheever (page images at HathiTrust)
• The scriptural argument against Apostolical succession : in its fabulous genealogy, its claim of supremacy for Peter, its graduated scale of ministerial orders, and its perversion of the rite of "Laying on of hands." In four lectures (London : J. Snow, 1845., 1845), by Thomas Stratten (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evangelical succession : or, The spiritual lineage of the Christian church and ministry : being the twenty-ninth Fernley lecture, delivered in London, July, 1889 (London : C. H. Kelley, 1899., 1899), by Thos. F. Lockyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Orders & jurisdiction. (London ; New York : Longmans, Green, 1925., 1925), by F. W. Puller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lectures on the principles and institutions of the Roman Catholic religion : with an appendix containing historical and critical illustrations (London : J. Conder, 1817., 1817), by Joseph Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eleutherosis tēs aletheias, truth asserted by the doctrine and practice of the apostles, seconded by the testimony of synods, fathers, and doctors, from the apostles to this day viz. that episcopacie is jure divino / by Sir Francis Wortley ... (London : Printed by A.N. for J.K. and T.W. ..., 1641), by Francis Wortley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Third treatise of the first part of ancient church-government. (Oxford printed : [s.n.], MDCLXXXVIII [1688]), by R. H. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Erastus Senior scholastically demonstrating this conclusion that (admitting their Lambeth records for true) those called bishops here in England are no bishops, either in order or jurisdiction, or so much as legal : wherein is answered to all that hath been said in vindication of them by Mr. Mason in his Vindiciæ ecclesiæ Anglicanæ, Doctor Heylin in his Ecclesiæ restaurata, or Doctor Bramhall ... in his last book intituled, The consecration and succession of Protestant bishops justified : with an appendix containing extracts out of ancient rituals, Greek and Latine, for the form of ordaining bishops, and copies of the acts of Parliament quoted in the third part. ([London : s.n.], 1662), by John Lewgar (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Erastus Junior. Or, A fatal blovv to the clergies pretensions to divine right.: In a solid demonstration, by principles, forms of ordination, canon-laws, acts and ordinances of Parliament, and other publique acts, instruments, records, and proceedings, owned by themselves, that no bishop, nor minister, (prelatical, or Presbyterian) nor presbytery (classical, or national) hath any right or authority to preach, ... in this nation, from Christ, but onely from the Parliament. In two parts: the one demonstrating it to an episcopal, the other to a Presbyterian minister. By Josiah Web, Gent. a serious detester of the dregs of the Antichristian hierarchy yet remaining among us. (London : printed, and are to be sold by Livewell Chapman at the signe of the Crown in Popeshead Alley, 1660), by John Lewgar (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The nullity of the prelatique clergy, and Church of England further discovered in answer to the plaine prevarication, or vaine presumption of D. John Bramhall in his booke, intituled, The consecration and succession of Protestant bishops justified, &c. : and that most true story of the first Protestant bishops ordination at the Nagshead verified their fabulous consecration at Lambeth vvith the forgery of Masons records cleerely detected / by N.N. (Printhed [sic] at Antwerp : [s.n.], M.DC.LIX [1659]), by Peter Talbot (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Primitive ordination and succession of bishops, deacons, pastors, and teachers in the church of Christ by George Fox. ([London?] printed : [s.n.], 1675), by George Fox (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• 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. (Boston: : Re-printed by Tho. Fleet, and are to be sold by Benjamin Eliot in Boston, Daniel Aurault in Newport, Gabriel Bernon in Providence, Mr. Gallop in Bristol, Mr. Jean in Stratford, and in most other towns within the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode-Island., 1723), by John Checkley (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A defence of a book lately re-printed at Boston, entituled, A modest proof of the order and government settled by Christ and his apostles in the church. In a reply to a book entituled, Sober remarks on the modest proof, &c. : In a letter to a friend. : [One line from Numbers] (Boston: : Printed by T. Fleet,, 1724), by John Checkley (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A discourse shewing who is a true pastor of the church of Christ. ([London? : Printed by J. Applebee, and sold by John Checkley in Boston?, 1723?]), by John Checkley (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A defence of Presbyterian ordination. In answer to a pamphlet, entituled, A modest proof, of the order and government settled by Christ, in the church. / By Jonathan Dickinson, M.A. Minister of the Gospel at Elizabeth-Town, New Jersey. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts] (Boston: : Printed for Daniel Henchman, and sold at his shop, over-against the Brick Meeting-House in Cornhill., 1724), by Jonathan Dickinson (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Sober remarks on a book lately re-printed at Boston, entituled, A modest proof of the order & government settled by Christ and his apostles in the church. In a letter to a friend. : [Eleven lines of quotations] (Boston in New-England: : Printed for Samuel Gerrish, and sold at his shop near the Brick Meeting-House in Cornhill., 1724), by Edward Wigglesworth (HTML at Evans TCP)

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