Questions on Church Polity

Dr. H. Bouwman, as we have seen, tried to reason the crooked thing straight -- the thing: deposition of office bearers by Classis -- by arguing the point that, in a crisis, as when there is need of a power to depose a rebellious consistory, all the consistories transfer their key-power to the Classis (Synod), and thereby bring it into being as a major consistory with key-power to depose office bearers. As was stated, this teaching according to which the major assemblies (Cassis and Synod) are...