DISCUSSED IN SEVERAL LECTURES; COMPRISING A REVIEW OF REV. LLOYD WINDSOR'S ARGUMENT ON THE BY REV. WILLIAM C. WISNER, BISHOP OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, LOCKPORT, N. Y. NEW-YORK: LEAVITT, TROW, & CO., 194 BROADWAY. MDCCCXLIV. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. JOHN F. Trow & Co., Printers, 33 Ann-street. 19 39 -63 88 105 116 123 139 156 On page 10, fifth line from bottom, for Markrun read Markum. Page 29, twelfth line from top, for professed read possessed. Page 40, last line, for they read this. Page 43, eighth line from top, between word and seems, insert "them." Page 74, sixth line from bottom, insert between any and His,-That they ruled is Page 80, fifth line from top. for imperial read inspired. Besides these, there are a few minor mistakes, two or three of which extend to TO THE READER. IN giving to the public the following Lectures, the Author has yielded to the earnest solicitation of his people, for whose special benefit they were prepared and delivered. The circumstances which made it necessary for him to enter upon the discussion are sufficiently explained in the introductory discourse. In the course of his argument he has not scrupled to avail himself of all the aid he could gather from the most prominent authors upon the same subject; such as Miller, Barnes, Smyth, Powell, Duffield, &c. He flatters himself that the argument is compressed into a much smaller compass in the present volume, than it can elsewhere be found; while yet nothing material to a correct understanding of the whole subject is omitted. There is one point to which he would call the special attention of the reader. Writers upon the same side of this subject with himself, have divided the Apostolic office into two parts, viz., that which was extraordinary and temporary, and that which was ordinary and perpetual. The former part of this office, they tell us, has long since passed away; while the latter continues in the person of every gospel minister. By thus dividing the same office into parts so entirely distinct and distinguished from each other, they have, to many minds, darkened the whole subject, and given our opponents a decided advantage. The author of the. subsequent Lectures has endeavored to prove that the Apostleship is an office entirely distinct from the pres |