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ft28 That these Campbellites and Pedobaptists, when they come to justify the<br />

origin of their churches, say the gates of hell did prevail against the church,<br />

is true. But, then they speak from their churches; here they speak from the<br />

Bible.<br />

ft29 Com. in loco.<br />

ft30 Lard’s Quarterly Review for 1886, p. 309.<br />

ft31 Living Pulpit, p. 520.<br />

ft32 Gospel Advocate for 1867, p. 770.<br />

ft33 Isaac Errett’s Walks about Jerusalem, p. 142.<br />

ft34 Com. in loco.<br />

ft35 Com. in loco.<br />

ft36 To the attempt to evade the force of this argument, by the fact that Saul<br />

became King, and thence inhering God then was no longer King ( 1<br />

Samuel 15:23) is a sufficient reply.<br />

ft37 In loco.<br />

ft38 Thayer’s, Robinson’s and other Lexicons.<br />

ft39 Inasmuch as the objection against Restricted Commission is based on the<br />

presumption that the church is not the custodian of New Testament<br />

institutions, the reader now has, In a nut shell, the key to the whole subject<br />

of “Close Communion.” No church which believes itself a New Testament<br />

church can extend its privileges to those outside its membership — those<br />

who differ from it.<br />

ft40 The <strong>Church</strong> of Christ, by Bannerman, vol. I, p, 51.<br />

ft41 Idem., p. 333.<br />

ft42 Idem., p. 439.<br />

ft43 Letters to Bishop Morris, p. 140.<br />

ft44 History Waldenses, Published by American Sunday School Union.<br />

ft45 Ecclesiology, p. 102.<br />

ft46 Christian System, p. 172.<br />

ft47 An invisible church — if there is such a thing — has neither ordinances nor<br />

anything else. if any passage, in the Bible, seems to mean an “Invisible”<br />

church, this passage is that one. The bad results of the “invisible” notion is<br />

seen in Cowboy-Deanism, now in Texas, and elsewhere. On the plea that<br />

the church is made up of all believers, wherever they are and to whatever<br />

they are connected, it is calling our churches “Babylon,” those who<br />

maintain them, “church idolators,” etc., and is endeavoring to destroy<br />

them. This is but the Pedobaptist notion of an “invisible church” “gone to

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