Many today actually believe and preach that relaxed church discipline is a blessing to the church. Not only this, they cry down Presbyterianism in general -- the only biblical means to faithfully purge the church of errors in faith and practice.

History is full of heretics that would do away with biblical presbyterian church government -- and why not, such governments would never tolerate the very heretics that try to overthrow them.

A lecture excerpted from the book Lectures on the Principles of the Second Reformation, edited by Andrew Symington.