Transcribed from the 1847 Joseph Masters edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org On the Apostolical Succession. * * * * * PAROCHIAL LECTURES. (_SECOND SERIES_.) * * * * * BY WILLIAM J. IRONS, B.D., INCUMBENT OF THE HOLY TRINITY, BROMPTON, MIDDLESEX. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * LONDON: JOSEPH MASTERS, 33, ALDERSGATE STREET. MDCCCXLVII. * * * * * TO EDWARD BOUVERIE PUSEY, D.D. (LATE FELLOW OF ORIEL COLLEGE) CANON OF CHRIST CHURCH, AND REGIUS PROFESSOR OF HEBREW IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD; THIS VOLUME (BY HIS PERMISSION) IS PRESENTED; WITH A DEEP FEELING OF THE AUTHOR’S OBLIGATION TO HIM FOR THE BLESSINGS OF HIS LEARNED INSTRUCTION, HIS CHRISTIAN EXAMPLE, AND HIS HONEST FRIENDSHIP. PREFACE. VERY little needs to be said to introduce these Lectures to the reader. They were delivered in Advent last, at Saint Mary’s, Newington; and there is the same reason for publishing, which there then was for writing and preaching them. I desire to assist, as far as I am able, those who are seeking to clear and define their thoughts, respecting the origin, nature, and power of the Christian Ministry. I have aimed only at plainness and fairness in the statement of the argument; and have adopted that arrangement of the subject, in which, as far as I can judge, it originally came before my own mind.