Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God

"The Church! Am I asked again, What is the Church? The ploughman at his daily toil--the workman who plies the shuttle--the merchant in his counting-house--the scholar in his study--the lawyer in the courts of justice--the senator in the hall of legislature--the monarch on his throne--these, as well as the clergymen in the works of the material building which is consecrated to the honour of God--these constitute the Church. The Church is the whole congregation of faithful men, in which the pure word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered.' The Church is so constituted under its Divine Head, that not one of its members can suffer but the whole body feels--nay, the great Head himself feels in the remotest and meanest member of his body: not the meanest member of the body can make an exertion in faith and love, but the blessed effects of it are felt, to the benefit of the whole, which groweth by that which every joint supplieth, to the increase of itself in love.'"--Bishop Blomfield.