Chapter XXV.Reforms Needed In The Church
Read Westminster Confession Chapter 25
The Membership
Chapter XXV. Reforms Needed In The Church
We Enter The Church By Profession of Faith And Or Baptism
John Gill
Benjamin Keach
We must Be strict In Who Joins The Church
John Owen
John Cotton
Each Church Is Independent In Its Government
William Ames
John Owen
John Cotton
All Those Who Join Have Authority To Vote In Church Matters
John Cotton
John Owen
Thomas Goodwin
Solomon Stoddard
William Ames
The Process of Church Discipline Should Be Very Swift
Alexander Henderson
When Anyone Is Guilty Of Unrepentant Sin He Goes Before The Church For Excommunition
John Owen
Jonathan Edwards
One May Also Leave If There is Rampant Worldliness
John Cotton- Of The Holiness Of Church Members
John Owen
Elders And Deacons
The Church Consists Of Elders And Deacons
To Be Considered For These Offices Their Are Qualifications
William Perkins
Charles Bridges
James Durham
The Only Way One May Preach Gods Word Is By Being Ordained
David Dickson, Truths Victory Over Error
George Gillespie-Ordination-
Women May Not Publicly Teach Men
Truths Victory Over Errror- David Dickson
“Women Preachers: The Public Preaching of Women”Read: R.L. Dabney –
Women May Not Preach– B.B. Warfield,
For One To Be Called The Church Body Elects Them
Read: Samuel Rutherford – “Rutherford on Separatism”
Read: Thomas Boston
Does The Christian Have Liberty To Fellowship With Those In Sin?
Read: George Gillespie – “Forbidden Alliances Concerning Associations and Confederacies with Idolaters, Infidels, Heretics, or Any Other Known Enemies of Truth and Godliness”
Holiness The Crown Jewel Of Christianity-Thomas Brooks