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Article XIII. Of the Church
The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the sacraments duly administered, according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Text from Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, volume 3 (1877), at the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Public domain.