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Excerpt from Behaviour of Pastors in the Church of the Living God: A Sermon, Preached in Forres, Before the Provincial Synod of Moray, at Their Annual Meeting, April 24, 1845
I. The position in which the Pastors in the Church are placed. The Church of Christ 1s necessarily divided into sections, from the very circumstances in which mankind are placed in this world - separated from each other by oceans, climates, and languages. Thus they are divided from each other by the limits which mark out the several nations of men. This sectional division is no more Opposed to the unity of the Church, than the division into provinces and families is destructive of a kingdom's unity. There are also divi sions which have been produced by causes connected with the spiritual part of man. As long as all men are not pos sessed of the same grasp of intellect, matters which appear quite manifest to some will not appear so to others. Thus, men holding the Head, and agreeing in the great outline of revealed truth, may be divided from one another by their different views on various subjects. This class of sectional divi sions do, after all, no more destroy the unity of the Church than the inequalities and seeming oppositions in the external world interfere with the unity of its system and design. Pastors of churches would do well to remember that, if sent forth by Christ to his harvest, they stand in immediate rela tion to the whole of that Church, which He bought with His sacred blood. It is in this view that Paul describes the position of Timothy, in language applicable only to the universal Church.
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