He [man] Knows That When He Is

The Independent Or Congregational Theory Includes Two Principles; First, That The Governing And Executive Power In The Church Is In The Brotherhood; And Secondly, That The Church Organization Is Complete In Each Worshipping Assembly, Which Is Independent Of Every Other.

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.

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.

Our Duty, Privilege, And Security Are In Believing, Not In Knowing; In Trusting God, And Not Our Own Understanding. They Are To Be Pitied Who Have No More Trustworthy Teacher Than Themselves.

The Reformers, Therefore, As Instruments In The Hands Of God, In Delivering The Church From Bondage To Prelates, Did Not Make It A Tumultuous Multitude, In Which Every Man Was A Law To Himself, Free To Believe, And Free To Do What He Pleased.