In these days, when nobody believes anything, when everybody has subscribed to the belief that black is white, and white black, and colors are nothing at all but imaginary distinctions, it is time that somebody should believe something. And a little sharpness of speech might not only be excused, but commended, if we had but men who spoke what they did know and testified honestly to the truth which they had received.
Everyone here present, who is maintained from the King’s palace, is bound to fight against every doctrine which insults the King. When I see a man pretending to be a priest, and assuming that he has
power to forgive sins, and to dispense pardons and indulgences, were I not to do my best to unmask the
deceiver and to speak against his imposition, I might be accounted accessory to his crime, chargeable with his guilt, and be made partaker of his condemnation.
Therefore, let every Englishman, let every Protestant, and above all, let every Christian, denounce priestcraft of every sort, and in every church, whether among Romanists, Anglicans, or Dissenters.
Down with it! There is only one Priest and He is in heaven. And none of us have any power to offer any sacrifice for sin, or any power to absolve our fellow men. Whether you accuse us of being censorious or not, the profanity appalls us, the duplicity that is taken in by it amazes us, and the sincerity with which we love the Gospel inflames us to make our protest heard. If we do not speak out about this crying perversion of the truth, we ought to be ashamed of
ourselves!
Then there be some in these days who deny the divinity of Christ, and there can be no terms of peace between us and them. I remember a remark of a Unitarian doctor, which I thought eminently correct. He
said of a certain Calvinist, who was accused of speaking sharply against Unitarians, “Quite right and so he ought, because if the Calvinist be right, the Unitarian is not a Christian at all, but if the Unitarian be right, the Calvinist is an idolater, because he worships one who is a man and is not the Son of God.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
Everyone here present, who is maintained from the King’s palace, is bound to fight against every doctrine which insults the King. When I see a man pretending to be a priest, and assuming that he has
power to forgive sins, and to dispense pardons and indulgences, were I not to do my best to unmask the
deceiver and to speak against his imposition, I might be accounted accessory to his crime, chargeable with his guilt, and be made partaker of his condemnation.
Therefore, let every Englishman, let every Protestant, and above all, let every Christian, denounce priestcraft of every sort, and in every church, whether among Romanists, Anglicans, or Dissenters.
Down with it! There is only one Priest and He is in heaven. And none of us have any power to offer any sacrifice for sin, or any power to absolve our fellow men. Whether you accuse us of being censorious or not, the profanity appalls us, the duplicity that is taken in by it amazes us, and the sincerity with which we love the Gospel inflames us to make our protest heard. If we do not speak out about this crying perversion of the truth, we ought to be ashamed of
ourselves!
Then there be some in these days who deny the divinity of Christ, and there can be no terms of peace between us and them. I remember a remark of a Unitarian doctor, which I thought eminently correct. He
said of a certain Calvinist, who was accused of speaking sharply against Unitarians, “Quite right and so he ought, because if the Calvinist be right, the Unitarian is not a Christian at all, but if the Unitarian be right, the Calvinist is an idolater, because he worships one who is a man and is not the Son of God.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
In these days, when nobody believes anything, when everybody has subscribed to the belief that black is white, and white black, and colors are nothing at all but imaginary distinctions, it is time that somebody should believe something. And a little sharpness of speech might not only be excused, but commended, if we had but men who spoke what they did know and testified honestly to the truth which they had received.
Everyone here present, who is maintained from the King’s palace, is bound to fight against every doctrine which insults the King. When I see a man pretending to be a priest, and assuming that he has
power to forgive sins, and to dispense pardons and indulgences, were I not to do my best to unmask the
deceiver and to speak against his imposition, I might be accounted accessory to his crime, chargeable with his guilt, and be made partaker of his condemnation.
Therefore, let every Englishman, let every Protestant, and above all, let every Christian, denounce priestcraft of every sort, and in every church, whether among Romanists, Anglicans, or Dissenters.
Down with it! There is only one Priest and He is in heaven. And none of us have any power to offer any sacrifice for sin, or any power to absolve our fellow men. Whether you accuse us of being censorious or not, the profanity appalls us, the duplicity that is taken in by it amazes us, and the sincerity with which we love the Gospel inflames us to make our protest heard. If we do not speak out about this crying perversion of the truth, we ought to be ashamed of
ourselves!
Then there be some in these days who deny the divinity of Christ, and there can be no terms of peace between us and them. I remember a remark of a Unitarian doctor, which I thought eminently correct. He
said of a certain Calvinist, who was accused of speaking sharply against Unitarians, “Quite right and so he ought, because if the Calvinist be right, the Unitarian is not a Christian at all, but if the Unitarian be right, the Calvinist is an idolater, because he worships one who is a man and is not the Son of God.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
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