THE THEOLOGICAL WORKS OF THE FIRST VISCOUNT BARRINGTON, INCLUDING THE MISCELLANEA SACRA, THE ESSAY ON THE DISPENSATIONS, AND HIS CORRESPONDENCE WITH DR. LARDNER, NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED. TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED, A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, WITH A BRIEF MEMOIR OF HIS SON, SHUTE BARRINGTON, THE LATE BISHOP OF DURHAM, BY THE REV. GEO. TOWNSEND, M.A. PREBENDARY OF DURHAM, AND VICAR OF NORTHALLERTON. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, 1828. · 7יי ESSAY II. ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN APOSTLES, ELDERS, AND BRETHREN. PART I.-ON THE APOSTLES. SECTION I.-Design of the following Essay; and on the powers granted to the Apostles in their first com mission. BECAUSE the appellation of apostles, elders, and brethren, occurs often separately in the New Testament;-and the famous letter which is mentioned Acts xv. 23, is represented as going from them jointly (as comprehending the whole church at Jerusalem) to the brethren which were of the Gentiles, in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia : because it is of so much consequence also to the right understanding the New Testament, to understand the character of an apostle; and of so much difficulty to understand what is meant by an elder in this text-and it being impossible to know what is meant by brethren without understanding what is meant by the other twoI have thought it might be of some use to con VOL. II. A |