The “Church” which Christ promises to guide into all truth and to preserve from fatal error is not a hierarchy or a body of officers, but the body of the “called” or “elect” — the body of believers as such. 1 John 2:20, 27; 1 Tim. 3:15; Matt. 16:18; Eph. 5:27; 1 Pet. 2:5; Col. 1:18, 24.

A. A. Hodge, The Confession of Faith, 267.