Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew; Potts, George. Can There Be A Church Without a Bishop? Controversy between Rev. Drs. Wainwright and Potts, (the former the Protestant Episcopal, the latter of the Presbyterian Church,) Growing out of the incidental Assertion of the former that 'There Cannot be a Church without a Bishop.' In a series of letters, originally published in the Commercial Advertiser. New-York: Greeley & McElrath, Tribune Buildings, 1844. [12358]
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A statement by Hon. Rufus Choate in his Address before the New-England Society in New York, in December of 1843, to the effect that the Pilgrims left England for New-England and erected "a Government without a King, and a Church without a Bishop," gave umbrage to the Episcopal clergyman Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright.
Dr. Wainwright's objections were taken up by the Presbyterian minister Rev. Dr. George Potts.
Dr. Wainwright "became involved in a controversy with the Rev. Dr. Potts, of New York, in 1844, which grew out of an assertion he had made, that 'there is no Church without a Bishop.' It was conducted in the form of letters in the New York Commercial Advertiser, and was afterwards printed in pamphlet form." - M'Clintock & Strong, The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (1880).
