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Many are led either by pride, dislike or rivalry to the conviction that they can profit enough from private reading and meditation; hence they despise public assemblies and deem preaching superfluous. But since they do their utmost to sever or break the sacred bond of unity, no one escapes the just penalty of this unholy separation without bewitching himself with pestilent errors and foulest deceptions. In order then, that pure simplicity of faith may flourish among us, let us not be reluctant to use this exercise of religion [church involvement] which God, by ordaining it, has shown us to be necessary and highly approved. (John Calvin, book four, chapter 1)
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 00:19:29 +0000

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