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THE

JURISDICTION AND MISSION

OF THE

Anglican Episcopate.

BY THE

REV. T. J. BAILEY, B.A.,

C. C. COLL., CAMBRIDGE,

AUTHOR OF "A DEFENCE OF HOLY ORDERS,"

ETC., ETC.

THEC

LONDON: J. & J. H. PARKER, 337, STRAND;

NEW YORK: POTT & AMERY, COOPER UNION.

1871.

110. K. 410

ΤΟ

HIS GRACE

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND MOST REVEREND

ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL TAIT,

D.D., D.C.L., LL.D,

LORD ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND,

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PREFACE.

ANY contribution, however small, to the efforts now being made by those to whom the Church and her welfare is the dearest object in life, to place that Church in her true aspect before the world, will, it is hoped, be accepted in the spirit in which it is offered.

It is in this spirit that this brief treatise upon that confessedly difficult and misunderstood subject, "the Jurisdiction and Mission" of the Anglican Episcopate, is put forth by the Author. It is also in fulfilment of a hope expressed by him in his "Defence of Holy Orders in the Church of England," to be able at some future time to enter more fully upon the question than he did there in the fourth chapter of that work. At the same time it is by no means intended as an exhaustive treatise; indeed, such a mass of materials from which to draw matter and illustration were at hand, that a work of almost any size might have been compiled; but his object was rather to present in a popular and readable form an analysis of the various opinions of Canonists and great Divines of the Church in various ages upon this subject.

T. J. BAILEY.

RUNNYMEDE HOUSE,

BRIGHTON,

March 31, 1871.

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