[20] Observe in St. Clement’s Epistle how it is assumed as undoubted that bishop, priest, and deacon had succeeded to the three orders of the levitical worship.
[21] 1 Peter ii. 25; Heb. x. 21, iii. 1, v. 10; Matt. xxiii. 8; Luke xxii. 29; John xx. 21; Matt. xxviii. 20; John xxi. 15.
[22] S. Thos. de Reg. Prin., lib. I. c. 14, translated.
[23] Taparelli, Saggio teoretico di dritto naturale.
[24] Bossuet.
[25] See Ephes. iv. 11-16.
[26] Bossuet.
[27] De Regimine Principis, lib. I. c. xv.
[28] Mansi, Collectio Conciliorum, xx. p. 75.
[29] I am indebted to Phillipps’ “Kirchenrecht” for this illustration of marriage. It is a work to which I am under many obligations.