The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.

Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.