If none have any claim to the sacred office but those who have had episcopal ordination, or are specially inspired, not only the present race of teachers among different denominations, both Methodists and regular Dissenters, must be degraded to the rank of intruders, whatever success may have attended their labours; but the same will apply to the 2,000 ministers of whom the world was not worthy, the brightest ornaments of the church to which the reverend gentleman belongs, who were expelled from their situations by the act of uniformity. Also the ministers of the Presbyterian church in Scotland, of which, as well as of the church of England, the king, by his representative, is the head, with many of the most eminent men who have flourished in these and foreign lands. Whatever excellences the universal suffrage of the wisest and best of men, both Churchmen and Dissenters, have attributed to the writings and public labours of an Owen, a Howe, a Charnock, a Watts, a Doddridge (the intimate friend of Archbishop Secker), a Henry, with a long train of others that might be enumerated, they must now retire into the shades, and pass into oblivion, because this infallible judge has made it out that they were not _authorized teachers_. Like their successors, they were incompetent to administer the ordinances aright; like them, to use his own language, they could not lay _claim to be considered as Christians. They were without the pale of the visible church of God. As schismatics, who forsook the church, they ought to have been the very first persons to whom the church should have refused her burial service; the principles of independency, which they in general maintained, being those of depraved human nature instilled into man, and fostered in him by his great enemy the devil, who was the first dissenter._ Whatever inconveniences or evils may attend the choice of their own teachers by each respective congregation, the imposition of teachers is far from being free from the most serious objections, and especially when the patronage is in the hands of persons, as it often is, regardless of the spiritual welfare of the flock, who are left in a starving condition, and too often feel no interest either in the preacher or his doctrine. But I forbear, and shall leave it to a discerning public to determine whether the contents of this unique publication--a specimen of which is now given, can do any service to the church of which the Rev. A. Gathercole prides himself as being a member, or do any credit to the judgment of the reverend clergymen and the lordly bishop, who have condescended to give it their sanction.