A Discourse on Ordination and Church Polity
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Excerpt from A Discourse on Ordination and Church Polity: In Which It Is Shown, That the Arrogant Assumptions of High-Churchism Are Inconsistent With Scripture, With Reason, and With Facts Having been requested by my esteemed friend and relative, the author of the following discourse, to write something in the shape of an introduction to it, I do so with great pleasure. As the note on a preceding page sufficiently states the circumstances that have led to the publication of the sermon which follows. it is not necessary that I should speak of them. A few words, however, respecting the subject discussed, and the manner in which it is here treated, may not be out of place. No well-informed man can be ignorant of the fact that a wonderful change is gradually taking place in the Christian world. This great movement had its origin in the Reformation accomplished, or rather commenced, in the sixteenth century, by Luther, Calvin, and their coadjutors. That astonishing moral revolution, however great its blessings, was far from emancipating the Church of Christ from all the thraldom in which she had so long been held. The Reformers did, indeed, bring back to the world the knowledge of the true way of salvation; - in other words, the glorious doctrine of Justification by Faith. But still many evils remained in connexion with the Church, even in those countries in which the Reformation exerted its happiest influences. As to some of these, the Reformers had not the light necessary to effect their removal; as to others, they had not the power; and as to some others, they had neither the light nor the power. In every country the Reformation left the Church a slave of the State; - an evil whose perfection, if not its origin, is to be sought for in the politico-ecclesiastical despotism which the Pontiffs of Rome, affecting to be the successors of Peter, but in reality aiming to be the successors of the Caesars, toiled for centuries to found. In some countries, the gold of essential Truth was allowed to be too much encrusted with the dross of papal errors. In a still greater number, too many of the forms of worship which Rome had with infinite pains instituted and consecrated, were retained, with slight modifications. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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