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… no church leader with a mandate from the church as represented by its delegates.

… the church, to Jerusalem to lay the matter before the apostles and elders. There they were to meet delegates from the different churches and those who had …

… all churches of the saints.” 1 Corinthians 14:33. He requires that order and system be observed in the conduct of church affairs today no less than in the days …

… all churches of the saints.” 1 Corinthians 14:32, 33. With Peter, he taught that all united in church capacity should be “subject one to another.” 1 Peter 5:5 .

… established church; yet God, in His wisdom, had overruled events to cause the reform to begin within the church itself. Had it come wholly from without, it would …

… Protestant churches from searching the Bible for themselves. They are taught to accept its teachings as interpreted by the church; and there are thousands …

… young church from becoming demoralized. Their numbers were rapidly increasing. The church would have been endangered if, in the rapid increase of converts …

… the church, they still clung to their idolatry, only changing the objects of their worship to images of Jesus, and even of Mary and the saints. The foul leaven …

… , her influence seemed steadily to increase. About the close of the eighth century, papists put forth the claim that in the first ages of the church the bishops …

… the church, out of which, they declared, there was no salvation. Zwingli responded: “Let not this accusation move you. The foundation of the church is the same …