Modern Pretensions to Apostlical Succession

THE office of the apostles, as apostles, was in its own nature temporary, and terminated with those who first discharged its functions. The foundation of a building, once properly and securely laid, does not require to be laid over again. And here was the peculiar work and honor of tbe apostles. To them it was committed to lay the foundation of the Christian Church; (we use a Scripture figure;) and all who were raised up to their help, and all who came after them in the evangelical ministry, could only assist in rearing the superstructure upon the foundation laid by them, until the whole building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple of the Lord, to be complete, all perfect, and glorious, at the end of time.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/ecommonsatsdigitalresources/1079/thumbnail.jp

The Origin and Design of the Apostleship

This tract explains the Biblical foundations for the creation of the original twelve (12) chosen apostles as well as Paul\u27s appointment to the group. It shares the Biblical foundations for the design or purpose of the apostles, their special training by Jesus, and their role in the Church after Christ\u27s resurrection.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/ecommonsatsdigitalresources/1077/thumbnail.jp

The Qualifications Essential for the Apostleship

This pamphlet describes the three (3) qualifications essential to be an apostle. It ends with this: These, according to the teaching and analogy of God\u27s word, were the essential qualifications of an apostle. All these are found in the twelve; but they are not, and never have been, found to meet in any other human being.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/ecommonsatsdigitalresources/1078/thumbnail.jp

How Paul Became an Apostle

Paul\u27s conversion and call to the Christian ministry and the apostleship is one of the most remarkable events in human history, showing that God\u27s ways are not our ways, nor his thoughts our thoughts. ... Paul was the true successor of Judas, appointed by the highest possible authority, and that the election of Matthias, being disapproved by him whose sole prerogative it was to invest men with apostolic office and honor, was rendered by Paul\u27s appointment entirely null and void.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/ecommonsatsdigitalresources/1076/thumbnail.jp

Speech on the results of emancipation in the British W. I. colonies, delivered at the celebration of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, held at Abington, July 31, 1858 : phonographic report by J.M.W. Yerrinton:

36 p ; 16 cm.cover-title,Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Digital Library Initiatives, 1996. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. [Making of America] This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation