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The office of presbyters is a permanent one.

~Charles Hodge

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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.

~Charles Hodge

Topics: Believe Bondage Church Delivering Did Every Every Man Free God Hands He Himself Instruments Law Make Man Multitude Pleased Therefore Tumultuous Which

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The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.

~Charles Hodge

Topics: Almost Apostles Church Every Government Part People Recognized Right Substantive Way

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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.

~Charles Hodge

Topics: Carry Church Discipline Doubt Government Itself No Doubt Out Part People Power Principle Right Substantive Therefore

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When the great promise of the Spirit was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, it was fulfilled not in reference to the apostles only.

~Charles Hodge

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It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

~Charles Hodge

Topics: Church Doctrine Exclusion God Governing Life Ministry People Power Resides Spirit Therefore Thoroughly

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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.

~Charles Hodge

Topics: Actively Authority Canon Clergy Constitution Cooperate Forming Making Matters Merely Passively People Procedure Rules Same Too

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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.

~Charles Hodge

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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.

~Charles Hodge

Topics: Apostles Assumes Believers Christ Church Designed Earth Organization Our Perpetual Saviour Theory Which While

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: Unknown

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