True Zeal Is Connected With A Holy

There Can, Therefore, Be No Doubt That Presbyterians Do Carry Out The Principle That Church Power Vests In The Church Itself, And That The People Have A Right To A Substantive Part In Its Discipline And Government.

The Gospel Is So Simple That Small Children Can Understand It, And It Is So Profound That Studies By The Wisest Theologians Will Never Exhaust Its Riches.

The Popish Theory, Which Assumes That Christ, The Apostles And Believers, Constituted The Church While Our Saviour Was On Earth, And This Organization Was Designed To Be Perpetual.

If All Church Power Vests In The Clergy, Then The People Are Practically Bound To Passive Obedience In All Matters Of Faith And Practice; For All Right Of Private Judgment Is Then Denied.

So Too, In Forming A Constitution, Or In Enacting Rules Of Procedure, Or Making Canons, The People Do Not Merely Passively Assent, But Actively Cooperate. They Have, In All These Matters, The Same Authority As The Clergy.