The Gospel Is So Simple That Small

If The Church Is A Living Body United To The Same Head, Governed By The Same Laws, And Pervaded By The Same Spirit, It Is Impossible That One Part Should Be Independent Of All The Rest.

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

When The Great Promise Of The Spirit Was Fulfilled On The Day Of Pentecost, It Was Fulfilled Not In Reference To The Apostles Only.

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.

But To Be The Vicar Of Christ, To Claim To Exercise His Prerogatives On Earth, Does Involve A Claim To His Attributes, And Therefore Our Opposition To Popery Is Opposition To A Man Claiming To Be God.