Shortcomings of the Puritan Church, and Reorganization of Society (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Shortcomings of the Puritan Church, and Reor...)
Excerpt from Shortcomings of the Puritan Church, and Reorganization of Society
Puritanism was a protest against errors in doctrine, and a purification of the church from an ostentatious ritual; but in its anxiety to establish Evangelical Christianity, it went off in another direction, and lugged in many things equally useless, absurd, and calculated to in ict upon the church serious and grievous wounds. Its errors, however, were more those of the head than of the heart, and are to be ascribed in a great meas ure to the age in which it originated. At that time the intel lect was exceedingly limited in its conception of what ought to constitute the true landmarks and boundaries between our Spiritual and worldly obligations, and therefore it clothed the central truth of Christianity - salvation by faith - with a wretched caricature rather than the beautiful garments of a pure taste and a sound judgment.
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