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these meetings of the brethren exercised over the life of Christians is described as follows:
"As in the Sea there are Islands . . . with havens and harbours in which the storm-tossed may find refuge, so God has given to the world, which is driven and tempest-tossed by sins, assemblies . . . in which survive the doctrines of the truth, as in the island-harbours of good anchorage; and into these run those who desire to be saved . . . and who wish to escape the wrath and judgment of God."[1]
- ↑ Theophilus to Autolycus, xiv.
