“Each church is free to establish whatever form of organisation is suitable and useful itself, for God has prescribed nothing specific about this.”

—  John Calvin

Epistles to the Corinthians
Source: Commentary on 1 Corinthians, 11:2, quoted in William J. Bouwsma, John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait (1989), p. 223

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