THE ORIGIN AND DESIGN OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: A SERMON PREACHED AT AN ORDINATION, HELD IN THE CHAPEL OF THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF THE DIOCESE OF OHIO, AT GAMBIER, ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1839, BY...BISHOP OF THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF OHIO.
Gambier: Western Church Press: G.W. Meyers, 1839. Disbound. 22pp + 2 blanks. Scattered fox and wear, Good+. A relatively early Gambier imprint. Printing began there, according to Ohio Imprints Inventory, in 1820. Bishop McIlvaine asserts, and explains in detail, "that the honour of God's ministry cannot be assumed on our own right, nor conferred by any mere human authority; but he can only be God's minister, who is called of God, as Aaron was called." FIRST EDITION. AI 56976 [5]. Not in Thomson, Eberstadt, Decker. Item #13962
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