---
title: 'A Perversion of History'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'James Addison Waddell'
date: 1896-07-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Church History'
- 'Presbyterian Polity'
scriptures:
- 'Ephesians 4'
- 'Psalms 68'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/waddell-1896-a-perversion-of-history
---

# A Perversion of History

Argues ministers are Christ's gifts (Eph 4), defends Presbyterian polity against the Anglican 'historic episcopate', and critiques the 1660 Restoration and proposed church union.

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