Lord’s Day 21, Chapter 5: The Communion of Saints (2) / Chapter 6: The Forgiveness of Sins (1)

5. The Communion Of Saints. (continued) That history is not to be compared to a movement along the spokes of a wheel towards its hub. It does not present the picture of a number of different churches, equally imperfect in their apprehension of the truth as it is in Christ, but simultaneously approximating it. On the contrary, it was a development from a definite starting point, along a straight line, from which, however, under the influence of the carnal element in the Church, in the course...