The Apostolic Church - Which Is It?; An Inquiry at the Oracles of God as to Whether Any Existing Form of Church Government Is of Divine Right #219715

If the distinction here specified is safe, the inference drawn from it is certainly dangerous. To say that, because a fact of Divine revelation is not essential to salvation, it must of necessity be unimportant, and may or may not be received by us, is to assert a principle, the application of which would make havoc of our Christianity. For, what are the truths essential to salvation? Are they not these — That there is a God that all men are sinners that the Son of God died upon the cross to make atonement for the guilty; and that whosoever believes on the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved?