Every Man, Therefore, Who Expects Justification By

A Christian Is One Who Recognizes Jesus As The Christ, The Son Of The Living God, As God Manifested In The Flesh, Loving Us And Dying For Our Redemption; And Who Is So Affected By A Sense Of The Love Of This Incarnate God As To Be Constrained To Make The Will Of Christ The Rule Of His Obedience, And The Glory Of Christ The Great End For Which He Lives.

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 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.

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.

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.