“Christ has not left his Church to be a Garden without Enclosure, a City without Walls, or a Vineyard without a Hedge...Christ has constituted an Ecclesiastical Regiment, and for that end appointed his own proper Officers, Laws, Ordinances, and Censures.” — Jonathan Dickinson, A Sermon, Preached at the Opening of the Synod at Philadelphia, September 19, 1722 (1723), pp. 13-14