I believe that He meant His Church to stand in certain permanent and universal institutions… in a permanent ministry through which He should declare His will, and dispense His blessings to the whole body, and the main office in which should be that apostolic office which belongs characteristically to the new dispensation, seeing that it expresses the general oversight of Him, Who no longer confines Himself in any particular nation, but has ascended up on high, that He might fill all things
F. D. Maurice, Three Letters to the Rev. W. Palmer, p. 8