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Secession and the Reformed ('Dopper') Churches in South Africa

B. Spoelstra
In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi | Vol 23, No 92 | a842 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ids.v23i92.842 | © 1970 B. Spoelstra | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 17 May 1989 | Published:

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B. Spoelstra,, South Africa

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The marks of the true church, as described in art. 29 of the Belgic Confession are applied by Calvin to the visible local congregation. During the Reformation local ministries were reformed in order to correspond to the marks of the true church of Jesus Christ.

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