Our Church Order (Article 1)

For the maintenance of good order in the church of Christ it is necessary that there should be: offices, assemblies, supervision of doctrine, sacraments and ceremonies, and Christian discipline; of which matters the following articles treat in due order. The language in which the articles of our Church Order were first written is Latin. Placing the English version of Art. 1 alongside of the Latin text, the dis­covery is made that this version represents a remark­ably free translation, to say...