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title: 'Jonathan Dickinson: Christ Has Not Left His Church to Be a City Without Walls'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2023-08-31
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2023-jonathan-dickinson-christ-has-not-left-his-church-to-be-a-city-without-walls
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# Jonathan Dickinson: Christ Has Not Left His Church to Be a City Without Walls

“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**](/authors/jonathan-dickinson), *A Sermon, Preached at the Opening of the Synod at Philadelphia, September* 19, 1722 (1723), pp. 13-14