There is still another point that must be taken into account in this connection, to wit, the attitude which the Episcopate has a right to take with respect to any proposed work of liturgical revision.
"A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer"
William Reed Huntington
Mingled with personal pique was the bitter feeling of the infringement of the rights of the Episcopate.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
Wide as was the range of Bunsen's subsequent changes, he at this time represented the opinions of the Evangelical German Church, with the strong leaning of an amateur towards the Episcopate as a form of Government, not as the vehicle of the continuous, corporate, and visible life of the Christian Church.
"Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2"
Robert Ornsby