Views Concerning The Church and the Sacraments During the Second Period (300-750 A.D.): The Doctrine of the Church (8): The Episcopacy.

We concluded our preceding article with the observation that it is truly a remarkable phenomenon that the episcopal form of church government should characterize the Church of God for about fifteen hundred years, from the time of the apostles to the Reformation. It is a truly remarkable phenomenon because it is undoubtedly true that the Word of God supports the Presbyterian form of church government. And one can hardly deny that this phenomenon is worthy of a little investigation. We concluded...