Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Of these two conflicting systems of religion, the one has its centre in the truth. The truth as it is in Jesus, is its sun. Around this, all revolves, and to this all is subordinated. It is essentially tolerant of diversities of form, where the truth is preserved and honoured. … The other system revolves around the form. It asks not simply is the truth held, but how it is held. Orders, rites, ceremonies, are the grand principles on which it rests the weightier matters of its law. And by a very natural consequence, one indeed which results from the laws of our being, this undue exaltation of the form, draws after it a corresponding depreciation of the spirit. The apotheosis of external religion, is the dethronement of the internal and the spiritual, and to a greater or less extent, this result is unvarying. Go where you will among the adherents of this system, and you find a latitudinarian tolerance of diversities of doctrine, prevailing in exact proportion to the rigidness of the demand for uniformity of practice in the observances of religion. ...
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Samuel James Pierce Anderson on the danger of Ritualism
Of these two conflicting systems of religion, the one has its centre in the truth. The truth as it is in Jesus, is its sun. Around this, all revolves, and to this all is subordinated. It is essenti…
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