To Be In Christ Is The Source

The Galatians Are Severely Censured For Giving Heed To False Doctrines, And Are Called To Pronounce Even An Apostle Anathema, If He Preached Another Gospel.

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.

No More Soul-destroying Doctrine Could Well Be Devised Than The Doctrine That Sinners Can Regenerate Themselves, And Repent And Believe Just When They Please...as It Is A Truth Both Of Scripture And Of Experience That The Unrenewed Man Can Do Nothing Of Himself To Secure His Salvation, It Is Essential That He Should Be Brought To Practical Conviction Of That Truth. When Thus Convinced, And Not Before, He Seeks Help From The Only Source Whence It Can Be Obtained.

The Church, However, Is A Self-governing Society, Distinct From The State, Having Its Officers And Laws, And, Therefore, An Administrative Government Of Its Own.

The Spirit Never Makes Men The Instruments Of Converting Others Until They Feel That They Cannot Do It Themselves; That Their Skill In Argument, In Persuasion, In Management, Avails Nothing.