The Episcopate a Stewardship

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Excerpt from The Episcopate a Stewardship: A Sermon Preached in St. Paul's Church, Richmond, Va., At the Consecration of the Rt. Rev. Henry Champlain Lay, D.D., Missionary Bishop of the South-West, on the 18th Sunday After Trinity, October 23, 1859The Bishops of the primitive Church were pre-em Pastors, only secondarily rulers. In the mediaeval when Dioceses were inordinately enlarged, came the objects of secular ambition, the office of absorbed every other appertaining to the order. Held more than one Diocese, and even Dioceses in than one country, and even children were made Bis as children might succeed to a lordship.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.