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The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

~Charles Hodge

Topics: Age Authority Body Church Churches Consist Did Each Extended Independent Isolated Members Over Rest Separate Subject Were Which

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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.

~Charles Hodge

Topics: Administrative Church Distinct Government Having However Laws Officers Own Society State Therefore

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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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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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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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We are no longer a nation of one church; we are a nation of many churches.

~Charles Kennedy

Topics: Church Churches Longer Many Nation

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I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

~Charles King

Topics: Always Choir Choirs Church Directed Gospel Never Performed Powerful Powerful Thing Sang Thing Thought

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I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

~Charles King

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