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The Church and Its Polity contains the lectures Charles Hodge gave on the subject of ecclesiology. Hodge had one day hoped to revise these lectures to be added into his Systematic Theology, but Hodge never found the time. Edited by one of his students and his son A. A. Hodge, these lectures concerning the administration of ecclesiastical affairs contain a vast amount of valuable discussion of...

the human race, as such, is a society. Men must organize and live in society; but their organizing does not make them men, nor members of the human race. In like manner the Church, or the called, as such, are not an organized body, though it is their duty to organize. But organization does not make them a Church, but being members of the Church, i.e. κλητοι, they associate for certain prescribed purposes. It seems to us that a large portion of the false reasoning connected with this whole subject,
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