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No More Soul-destroying Doctrine Could Well Be Devised Than The Doctrine That Sinners Can Regenerate Themselves, And Repent And Believe Just When They Please...as It Is A Truth Both Of Scripture And Of Experience That The Unrenewed Man Can Do Nothing Of Himself To Secure His Salvation, It Is Essential That He Should Be Brought To Practical Conviction Of That Truth. When Thus Convinced, And Not Before, He Seeks Help From The Only Source Whence It Can Be Obtained.

The Reformers, Therefore, As Instruments In The Hands Of God, In Delivering The Church From Bondage To Prelates, Did Not Make It A Tumultuous Multitude, In Which Every Man Was A Law To Himself, Free To Believe, And Free To Do What He Pleased.

He [man] Knows That When He Is Not What He Ought To Be; When He Does What He Ought Not To Do; Or Omits What He Ought To Do, He Is Chargeable With Sin

The Spirit Never Makes Men The Instruments Of Converting Others Until They Feel That They Cannot Do It Themselves; That Their Skill In Argument, In Persuasion, In Management, Avails Nothing.

The Independent Or Congregational Theory Includes Two Principles; First, That The Governing And Executive Power In The Church Is In The Brotherhood; And Secondly, That The Church Organization Is Complete In Each Worshipping Assembly, Which Is Independent Of Every Other.