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seed.” The “invisible” notion is the seed of ecclesiastical nihilism and
anarchy,
ft48 “The learned Dr. Owen fully maintains, that in no approved writer, for two
hundred years after Christ, is mention made of any organized, visibly
professing church, except a local congregation of Christians.” — Church
Members’ Manual, p. 38. by William Crowell.
ft49 That the reader may neither be confused nor think that I am confused I will
again state that I use “church,” in the singular, to denote the aggregate of
churches. Just as it is used in Matthew 16:18; Ephesians 1:22; 5:24;
Colossians 1:18. It Is thus used by synecdoche, and I use “churches” for
the independent organizations — the literal churches, as in Acts 9:31;
15:41; 16:5; 19:37: Romans 16:4. 16; 1 Corinthians 7:17; 11:16;
14:33,34; 16:1,19. To say “Baptist church” for all Baptist churches is,
therefore, correct, so is it to say Baptist churches.
ft50 Com, on 1 Timothy 3:15.
ft51 On 1 Timothy 3:15, in “Old Landmarkism,” p. 44.
ft52 Bannerman’s Church of Christ, vol. 1, pp. 332, 313.
ft53 Advocates for receiving persons into our churches, on alien immersions,
have fallen into the Romanist and Episcopal error: for they claim that we
can have no proof of a regularly constituted ministry until we can trace
“every minister’s pedigree back to apostolic times!” Just as If a Scriptural
Church is not the authority to baptize!
ft54 Idem, pp. 439, 442.
ft55 True Christian Religion, p. 269.
ft56 Buckle’s History of Civilization, vol. 1, p. 183.
ft57 Bangs’ Original Church, p. 103.
ft58 Idem, p. 302.
ft59 Compendium of Methodism, p. 329.
ft60 Idem, p. 337.
ft61 Religious Denominations, p. 123.
ft62 Religious Denominations, p. 109.
ft63 Idem, p. 82.
ft64 Idem, pp. 74, 75.
ft65 Idem, p. 172.
ft66 These sects, in the same breath, profess that “to have existed from the
apostolic age is not necessary,” then exhaust their ingenuity in refuting