“In their system the autonomy of the local churches came first, but the need for all the churches to express their unity and to assist each other in doctrine, worship, ethics, and judicial appeals warranted self-imposed restrictions that prevented every church from “doing what was right in its own eyes.”
— Martin I. Klauber, The Theology of the French Reformed Churches: From Henry IV to the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes🔗