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• ‟ Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

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• ‟ Ruling elders are declared to be the representatives of the people.

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• ‟ The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.

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• ‟ So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

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• ‟ The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

  - Charles Hodge