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Excerpt from High and Low Church
Want of definition is the life of all controversy: and controversy is the bane of Christian spirit, of which unity is the essential characteristic, and large comprehensiveness the most distinguishing quality.
The following discussion relates to differences of views within the Church, as to matters connected with its doctrine and practice.
The Church, ' in its widest sense, means a community belonging to the Lord.' Such acceptation its Greek etymology implies.
Within this description come all the Faithful of the human race under every Divine dispensation, from that of the first promise of redemption from the Fall' to the covenant with Abraham, and the law given on Mount Sinai, up to the rising of the Light on Zion which brought man kind out of darkness to the full revelation of the Kingdom of the Son of God.
The spirits of the justified in disembodied state 'wait ing for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of the body' (rom. Viii. And the militant still in earth's probation, are in this communion with The Lord, and with each other, 'out of every kindred, tongue, people, and nation' (rev. V.
The Christian Church means the visible institution of Christ on earth, as organised by His Apostles. This is the recognised depositary of Christian doctrine, and the divinely appointed channel of Christian grace.
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