OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CONTAINING A BRIEF SUMMARY OF ARGUMENTS IN FAVOUR OF ITS AND VIEW OF ITS PRINCIPles, order, AND HISTORY, DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR THE YOUTH OF THE CHURCH. BY THE REV. J. E. ROCKWELL. PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION, Entered accor ling to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by A. W. MITCHELL, M. D., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PREFACE. THE following work, first commenced with the simple hope of rendering more attractive and useful the pages of the Sabbath-school Visitor, where it originally appeared in the form of letters to children, has been carefully re-written, and enlarged by important additions. The design of the writer has been to supply, as far as possible, a want which has been greatly felt, of some suitable history of the Presbyterian Church, to be placed especially in the hands of our youth. He has sought to group together the facts by which that history can be traced up, not simply to the Reformation, but to the Apostolic age, and to the type of a pure and primitive Christianity. He has desired to make familiar to the mind, the rise, progress, struggles, and successes of the great principles of Presbyterianism, and to set forth their influence upon the Church and the world. In addition to the ordinary works of reference, he would acknowledge his indebtedness to the researches |