I ask, I say, whether this is not more agreeable to the church of Christ than for men to impose their own inventions and interpretations upon others as if they were of divine authority, and to establish by ecclesiastical laws, as absolutely necessary to the profession of Christianity, such things as the holy Scriptures do either not mention or at least not expressly command. Whoever requires those things in order to ecclesiastical communion which Christ does not require in order to life eternal, he may perhaps constitute a society accommodated to his own opinion and his own advantage, but how that can be called the church of Christ which is established upon laws that are not his, and which excludes such persons from its communion as He will one day receive into the Kingdom of heaven, I understand not. One who is qualified to be received by the Father of all glory is qualified to be received by me. If we receive all whom God receives and allow one to stand or fall to His own master, we can have that unity which the Father designed for his family. The one body was the creation of the Holy Spirit.
Every party is the creation of the party spirit.
I expect to allow the Holy Spirit to bind me to every precious child of God, and I refuse to allow the party spirit to separate me from any such child. The body of Christ is composed of parts but not parties.