The Institution of Christ’s Church

Our previous articles constituted an attack upon G. Hoeksema's system of Church government -- a system described by him in a booklet bearing the title "Can A Classis Depose A Consistory?" The fallacies of at least some of the principles incorporated in this system were exposed. It appeared that the thought structure reared by G. Hoeksema must not be taken as a model or pat­tern for the institution of Christ's Church. We labored to show that in those circles where Hoeksema's ma­chinery of church...