Excerpt from The Church and Her Children For this body the Lord Jesus Christ is Head over all things; and he is made to Show this in every age, with a distinctness greater or less, proportioned to the doctrinal understanding and to the spirituality of the body of that age. This headship pertains to him, as having the world under his charge In his labors of redemption, in the working-out of which, this body is the visible centre of labor and fruit and hope. This body constitutes the party in this world, nominal or actual, on the side of God, and in dis tinction from those who, as the only other party, adopt systems of pagan and false religions, or who confessedly reject the divme system without adopt ing any other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.