---
title: 'The Exclusive Claims of Prelacy, Stated and Refuted'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Benjamin Mosby Smith'
date: 1844-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Presbyterian Polity'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Galatians 1'
- 'Acts 15'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/smith-1844-the-exclusive-claims-of-prelacy-stated-and-refuted
---

# The Exclusive Claims of Prelacy, Stated and Refuted

B.M. Smith refutes prelatical claims that salvation depends on episcopal ordination and rites, defending Presbyterian polity and the sufficiency of the gospel.

[Download](https://media.confessional.org/archives/smith-1844-the-exclusive-claims-of-prelacy-stated-and-refuted.pdf)