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Ixxii Introductory Essay.
(if it does) an Episcopal succession. They
would not themselves wish to see intercom
munion established with a Nestorian, Mono-
physite, or Socinian body, while that body
retained its heresy. Yet even on the narrow
question of the actual succession, the attention
of those who have desired it has been too much
confined to its earliest supposed link ; whether
Petrus Magni (Magnusson) was, as he asserted,
consecrated at Rome, or by whom Bothrid was
consecrated, of whom Fant says,
"
a quo fuerat
consecratus, prorsus silent."* But, apart from
this, the Swedish body has no priests ; so that
unless a person can be at once consecrated a
been first ordained a
Bishop, without having
Priest, the consecrations are invalid. The
words of the consecration itself are chosen to
express the Lutheran opinion, that the power to
consecrate is derived from the body of the
Church, and is not inherent in the Bishop.
1. Although the term "Priesterschaft" is used
of the clergy, the office to which persons are or
dained (and that, in the vacancy of a see, at times
by Deansf) is studiously and repeatedly called
"
the holy office of
preacher." Those ordained
are so called and nothing else.J
The Swedish
* De succ. Canon. Epis. Sueciae, quoted by Dr. Kouth,
"
in Mr. Perceval s Collection of Papers, &c.," p. 65.
f Schubert, Schweden s Kirchenverfassung, i. 175-185 ;
in Christ. Eem. xiii. 433.
"
After Divine service ended, there wilfbe held in this