Excerpt from The Constitutional Authority of Bishops in the Catholic Church: Illustrated by the History and Canon Law of the Undivided Church From the Apostolic Age to the Councile of Chalcedon, A. D. 451There are two points with regard to the following pages towards which I would venture to draw the attention of those who may read them.In the first place, the main object of the investigation may seem academic rather than practical to Churchmen in England. From these I would crave patience, because questions which touch the daily practical working of the Free Churches of the Anglican Communion must necessarily seem at present merely academic to Churchmen whose organisation is still linked with the State. Secondly, I desire the indulgence of all my readers on account of the necessarily frequent repetitions of the same arguments and the same enactments, in slightly varying forms, which this book contains.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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