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Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Scriptural View of the Constitution of a Christian Church, and Its Relation to the Church Universal: Also Into the Evidence Respecting the Alleged Fact of Apostolical Succession
Parkhurst, adverting to the etymology of the word, considers it as importing an assembly called out; and the Christian Church as an assembly or society called out of the world and perhaps some such notion may have been implied, when Stephen spake of the Church in the wilderness. (acts vii. 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.
