in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Conceived widely, church order refers to any visible form or organization of the church, but the issues in the eighteenth century included, at the very least, church-state constitutionality, the ordering of the ministry and governance of the church, and the mode and administration of the sacraments. Evangelicals united in mission and spiritual friendship, but they did not unite under one visible church order. Yet while evangelicals were divided by these
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