Charles Hodge Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Charles Hodge quotes and sayings page 3 (theologian). These are the last 9 out of 29 quotes we have.
“If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.”
“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.”
“All Church power is, therefore, properly ministerial and administrative. Everything is to be done in the name of Christ, and in accordance with his directions.”
“All the reasons which require the subjection of a believer to the brethren of a particular church, require his subjection to all his brethren in the Lord.”
“As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.”
“Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.”
“The Church, however, is a self-governing society, distinct from the State, having its officers and laws, and, therefore, an administrative government of its own.”
“The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.”
“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.”
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