Excerpt from The Claims of Episcopacy Refuted: In a Review of the Essays of the Right Reverend Bishop Hobart, and Other Advocates of Diocesan Episcopacy That these summary and oftentimes injurious decisions have been unprovoked on the part of disputants, I shall not afiirm. On the contrary, I Will freely concede that the unfairness, the heat, and the rudeness, which too frequently occur in polemical writings, are most offensive to the discreet reader, and make him shy of au thors from Whom he may expect such'entertain ment. 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.