Ecclesiology

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Excerpt from Ecclesiology: A Treatise on the Church and Kingdom of God on Earth The following pages contain a condensed summary of a series of Lectures delivered during the past seventeen years to the students of this Institution, in this department of Christian Doctrine. In the effort to prepare a succinct treatise, available for practical uses, rather than an elaborate dissertation, it has been deemed desirable to omit all extended discussion of controverted points, and simply to incorporate, with the briefest statement of grounds and reasons, such conclusions as have justified themselves to the author after careful investigation. Minor divisions and notations, employed in the class-room, have for the most part been omitted, only such authorities as are easily accessible, are mentioned by way of reference. Prepared originally for the benefit of theological students, this brief volume - the fruit of many happy studies in this interesting field - is now, with some hesitation, sent forth from its seclusion here, in the hope that it may prove useful in wider circles. The fact that there is in present circulation, hardly any work of the same class, and covering the same ground, seems in part at least to justify such hope. And if the perusal of this treatise should help any single mind into clearer, broader, more irenic conceptions of the Church, or should contribute in the slightest measure toward the harmonizing of opinion and action among Christian men around this one divine Institution on whose growth and efficiency the interests of spiritual Christianity, the world over, seem now so vitally dependent, that hope will have gained its largest realization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.