Nothing appertaining to the first man and to his order of things enters into the composition or formation of the assembly. It is all divine. "I will build My assembly." Were it possible that anything of the first man could be allowed, it could never be said, "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." H. C. Anstey.
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