TRUTH AND ORDER

VINDICATED FROM

MODERN MISREPRESENTATION:

WITH

A DEFENCE OF EPISCOPACY,

PARTICULARLY THAT OF

SCOTLAND,

AGAINST AN ATTACK MADE ON IT,

BY THE LATE DR. CAMPBELL OF ABErdeen,

IN HIS

LECTURES ON ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY:

AND

A CONCLUDING ADDRESS

TO THE EPISCOPALIANS OF SCOTLAND.

BY THE RIGHT REV. JOHN SKINNER,

IN ABERDEEN,

SENIOR BISHOP OF THE SCOTCH EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

Aberdeen:

PRINTED BY J. CHALMERS & CO.

AND SOLD BY

F. & c. RIVINGTONS, LONDON; HANWELL & PARKER, OXFORD; S. CHEYNE, EDINBURGH; AND ANGUS, BROWN, AND BURNETT, BOOKSELLERS,

ABERDEEN.

1803.

THE FOLLOWING WORK, IN VINDICATION

OF

PRIMITIVE TRUTH AND ORDER,

IS MOST RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

TO THE HONOURABLE

SIR WILLIAM FORBES, BARONET,

OF PITSLIGO;

BOTH AS A GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT

OF HIS EXERTIONS IN THE SAME CAUSE,

AND

AS A HUMBLE TESTIMONY

OF THAT SINCERE REGARD FOR HIS PUBLIC VIRTUES,

AND NO LESS AMIABLE CHARACTER

IN PRIVATE LIFE,

WHICH HAS BEEN LONG AND DEEPLY IMPRESSED

ON THE MIND OF

HIS MUCH OBLIGED, OBEDIENT,

AND VERY FAITHFUL SERVANT

THE AUTHOR.