The Thirty-Nine Articles
The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
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1563 · The Thirty-Nine Articles, Article XIX
Checked word-for-word against The Creeds of Christendom, Vol. III · 2026-07-17