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Presbytery and Not Prelacy: The Scriptural and Primitive Polity, Proved from the Testimonies of Scripture;… also, The Antiquity of Presbytery; Including an Account of the Ancient Culdees, and of St. Patrick

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Thomas Smyth's 1843 treatise argues that presbytery, not prelacy, is the scriptural and apostolic form of church government, defended from Scripture, the Fathers, and antiquity.
Archive ⬩ Ancient and Medieval Church History, Ecclesiology (General), Presbyterian Polity
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Thomas Smyth was an Irish-born American Presbyterian minister and theologianwho served as pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Charleston, South Carolina, for over four decades, authored numerous works defending Presbyterian polity and doctrine, and held to Old School confessional standards while engaging major issues of his day. He also wrote The Unity of the Human Races Proved to Be the Doctrine of Scripture defending monogenism and was a prominent religious figure in the antebellum and Civil War South.

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