Sunday, March 13, 2005
Acceptable Sacrifice
"When the calves are set up in Dan and Bethel, it is under the pretence of the name of God, even of the one who delivered his people from Egypt [1 Kings 12:28]. Yet, since the worship established there is repulsive to the teaching of the law, God condemns all who go there to pollute themselves.
"So, let us hold to this rule, that all human inventions which are set up to corrupt the simple purity of the word of God, and to undo the worship which he demands and approves, are true sacrileges, in which the Christian man cannot participate without blaspheming God, and trampling His honour underfoot." [John Calvin--from his Anti-nicodemite writings]
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