The Collected Writings of James Henley Thornwell, Volume 4: Ecclesiastical (Biblia.com)

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The fourth volume of Thornwell’s collected writings, labeled “Ecclesiastical,” wraps up the set with thoughts on church government, structure, and discipline. Also contained in this resource is historically important documentation regarding Thornwell’s pro-slavery viewpoint, as well as detailed reasoning as to the separation of the Southern Presbyterian Church from the Presbyterian Church.

to the inward. A Church, therefore, which cannot realize a visible unity, and thus aim to coincide with the invisible Church, is self-condemned; and any Constitution which does not recognize this fact is convicted of being unscriptural. This principle of the unity of the Church lies at the foundation of the Presbyterian polity, and all its peculiarities are designed to bring this out and give it a formal expression. It is singular that the only two bodies which claim to realize this unity are in

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