Spruce Street Lectures: Lecture IV. Delivered on the Evening of the 22d January, 1832; Of Church Discipline (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The Officers of the Church are required to guard with as siduous care against the admission of the ignorant and un sanctified. From the desire prevalent, in most Christian communities, to increase their numbers, to extend their in fluence, and to gratify those who evince a prepossession in their favour, there is reason to fear that sufficient caution will not be employed to exclude the unworthy; and espe cially to prevent the sacred ministry from being profaned, by the.conceited novice, the corrupt worldling, and the equivocating heretic. Hence the danger of filling the Church with men who neither know nor obey the truth, and of admitting to the sacred oflice those who have never learned the distinguishing doctrines of Christianity. There is cause for apprehension, where large numbers are hurried into the Church, upon the feeling and impulse of a mo ment; and many are added to its ministry, who are not at the pains of concealing their hostility to its peculiar and ac knowledged principles.

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