The Value of the Church Order Today (1)

Article 32 of the Belgic Confession of Faith reads in part: In the meantime we believe that it is useful and beneficial, that those, who are rulers of the Church, institute and establish certain ordinances among themselves for maintaining the body of the Church; yet they ought studiously to take care, that they do not depart from those things which Christ, our only Master, hath instituted . . . . Therefore we admit only of that which tends to nourish and preserve concord, and unity, and to...