Présentation de l'éditeur
Few subjects are more important, or, in view of the confusing effect of controversies, more difficult to be understood, than that of the government of the Church ;not only as such understanding affects our duty to God in the matter of religious faith, but also as it bears upon our duty to our neighbor, and particularly upon what we owe to the Civil A uthority. The following pages are the result of an effort to think out to their proper conclusions certain fundamental principles in this subject considered in these relations, and to apply the conclusions to existing facts. What success may have attended the effort, the reader will determine according to his own judgment, which, in many cases, will doubtless be more just than that of the writer. The effort, however, with such assistance as the writer has been able to derive from the learning of others, has been honestly made; and although neither in its principles nor in its applications does it extend so far as is desirable, yet the process which it essays is certainly one for which there is great need, especially in regard to the American system here treated. If the book shall in any degree meet the need, or prove of service in aiding others to meet it, the author will be content.
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