Excerpt from A Discourse on Ordination and Church Polity: In Which It Is Shown, That the Arrogant Assumptions of High-Churchism Are Inconsistent With Scripture, With Reason, and With Facts Having been requested by my esteemed friend and relative, the author of the following discourse, to write something in the shape of an introduction to it, I do so with great pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.