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		History of the Apostolic Church, With a General Introduction to Church History. Tr. [from Geschichte Der Christlichen Kirche] by E.d. Yeomans Philip Schaff Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-22. ISBN 9781150668579
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Title: History of the Apostolic Church, With a General Introduction to Church History. Tr. [from Geschichte Der Christlichen Kirche] by E.d. Yeomans [and Revised by the Author]. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1853 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. THE CHURCH. Â§ 4. Idea of the Church. Christianity, which, as the absolute religion, holds this central, ruling position in history, and on which depends the salvation of the human race, exists not merely as something subjective in single pious individuals, but also as an objective, organized, visible society, as a kingdom of Christ on earth, or as a church.1 The church is in part a pedagogic institution to train men for heaven, and as such destined to pass away in its present form when the salvation shall be completed ; in part the everlasting communion of the redeemed, both on earth and in heaven. In the first view, as a visible organization, it embraces all, who are baptized, whether in the Greek, or Roman, or Protestant communion. It contains, therefore, many hypocrites and unbelievers, who will never be entirely separated from it until the end of the world. Hence our Lord compares the kingdom of heaven, Matt. 13., to a field, where wheat and tares grow together until the harvest; and to a net, which " gathers ofevery kind." The true essence of the church, however, the eternal communion of saints, consists only of the regenerate and converted, who are united by a living faith with Christ the head, and, through him, with one another. 1 The word cAiircA, like the Scotch kirk, the German kirche. the Swedish kyrka. the Danish kyrke, and like terms in the Sclavonic languages, must be derived, through the Gothic, fr

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