The Office Of Presbyters Is A Permanent

Sanctification Is Not A Work Of Nature, But A Work Of Grace. It Is A Transformation Of Character Effected Not By Moral Influences, But Supernaturally By The Holy Spirit.

The Church, During The Apostolic Age, Did Not Consist Of Isolated, Independent Congregations, But Was One Body, Of Which The Separate Churches Were Constituent Members, Each Subject To All The Rest, Or To An Authority Which Extended Over All.

Faith Is Not A Blind, Irrational Conviction. In Order To Believe, We Must Know What We Believe, And The Grounds On Which Our Faith Rests.

The Functions Of These Elders, Therefore, Determine The Power Of The People; For A Representative Is One Chosen By Others To Do In Their Name What They Are Entitled To Do In Their Own Persons; Or Rather To Exercise The Powers Which Radically Inhere In Those For Whom They Act.

As We Fell In Adam, We Are Saved In Christ. To Deny The Principle In The One Case, Is To Deny It In The Other; For The Two Are Inseparably United In The Representations Of Scripture