...thereunto.fi IV. This catholic Church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less, visible. * And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less...and public worship performed more or less purely in them.1 " Eph. ii. 19. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with...

...existed within the National Church, more especially in view of the Confession's own declarations that " the purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error," and that " God alone is lord of the conscience." It was also to be remembered 'that the supreme judge is...

...although the Westminster Confession acknowledged that "particular churches" in any age would only be "more or less pure, according as the doctrine of the...public worship performed more or less purely in them." 2 The American restoration movement shaped by Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone owes a more direct...

...evil within themselves. The Westminster Confession (1647) of the Presbyterian Church (USA) states, 'The purest churches under heaven are subject both...error,- and some have so degenerated as to become apparently no churches of Christ. Nevertheless, there shall be always a Church on earth to worship...

...certainly persevere therein to the end, and be eternally saved. (Westminster Confession of Faith 6.094) The purest churches under heaven are subject both...and error: and some have so degenerated as to become apparently no churches of Christ. Nevertheless, there shall be always a Church on earth, to worship...

...constituted.3 3. The purest churches under heaven are subject (1 Cor. xv.; Rev. ii. arftt ch. iii.) to mixture and error; and some have so degenerated as to become (Rev. xviii. 2; 2 Thess. ii. 11, 12) no churches of Christ, but synagogues of Satan; nevertheless Christ...

...sometimes been more, sometimes less visible', that particular churches are more or less pure and that the 'purest churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error' has tended, in its assertion of the proleptic and eschatological nature of the catholicity of the Church,...

...thereunto. 4. This catholic Church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. And particular Churches, which are members thereof, are more or less...public worship performed more or less purely in them. 5. The purest Churches under heaven are subject both to mixture and error; and some have so degenerated...

...(25:4) states: This catholic church has been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less...public worship performed more or less purely in them. With all of the false doctrine, false preachers, and false churches in the world, how is it possible...

...thereunto. 4. This catholic Church hath been sometimes more, sometimes less visible. And particular churches, which are members thereof, are more or less...public worship performed more or less purely in them. The Government of the Church A. Different Theories Respecting the Government of the Church 1. QUAKERS...