The Last Reformation

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F. G. Smith. The Last Reformation

The Last Reformation

Table of Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

"THE TIME OF REFORMATION"

PART I

The Church in Apostolic Days

The Last Reformation

CHAPTER I

THE CHURCH DEFINED

CHAPTER II

THE UNIVERSAL CHURCH

CHAPTER III

THE LOCAL CHURCH

CHAPTER IV

THE ORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT OF THE CHURCH

PART II

The Church in History

CHAPTER V

CORRUPTION OF EVANGELICAL FAITH

CHAPTER VI

RISE OF ECCLESIASTICISM

CHAPTER VII

THE REFORMATION

CHAPTER VIII

MODERN SECTS

CHAPTER IX

THE CHURCH OF THE FUTURE

PART III

The Church in Prophecy

CHAPTER X

INTERPRETATION OF PROPHETIC SYMBOLS

CHAPTER XI

THE APOSTOLIC PERIOD

CHAPTER XII

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD

CHAPTER XIII

ERA OF MODERN SECTS

CHAPTER XIV

THE LAST REFORMATION

OUTLINE OF PARALLEL PROPHECIES SHOWING FOUR ECCLESIASTICAL EPOCHS

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F. G. Smith

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The body of Christ

We should divest our minds, temporarily at least, of preconceived ideas of formal church organization and earnestly seek to understand the real signification of that church of which Christ was himself personally the founder. A few texts make this point clear: "And hath put all things under his [Christ's] feet, and given him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all" (Eph. 1: 22, 23). The church, then, is the body of Christ. Of this body Jesus himself is the head. "And he is the head of the body, the church … that in all things he might have the preeminence" (Col. 1:18). "For his body's sake, which is the church" (verse 24). Christ is head of but one body. "There is one body" (Eph. 4:4). In these texts the body and the church are used interchangeably, referring to one and the same thing. The body of which Christ is the head is the church that he built, "the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood" (Acts 20: 28).

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