A Popular Life of George Fox: The First of the Quakers (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Josiah Marsh

9780484406918: A Popular Life of George Fox: The First of the Quakers (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0484406914 ISBN 13: 9780484406918

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The great object of the Reformation was to draw people from the authority of the church, so called, to the authority of scripture; from obscure traditions, from the opinions of the fathers, and from the decrees of councils, composed of fallible men like ourselves, to the light of the gospel, the inspired foun tain from which their opinions are all professed to be drawn. The gospel, therefore, is the ostensible rule of all the reformed churches - a rule, which as it is directly Opposed to the pre tensions of popery, places them all upon an equal footing, and better would it have been bad they strictly confined themselves to it; for, there is always' a propensity among all men,' 'everywhere,' to fall into a similar kind of external worship of forms and dogmas - of Observances apart from morals, and creeds apart from conviction - to substitute the offices of a priesthood for individual holiness - the consecration of times and places, of temples and days, for the sanctification of the heart and life. Into such forms human nature is ever prone to corrupt spiritual service; and quod semper, ubique, et ab omnibus, is the very formula of the corrupt religion of human nature!

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