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Excerpt from Essay on the Scriptural Obligation of Christian Churches to Observe the Lord's Supper Every Lord's Day: To Which Is Added a Brief Sketch of the Scriptural Doctrine of the Second Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ
Yet such is the pride and presumption of man, that ecclesiastical history exhibits an almost con tinned propensity among men, to intermeddle with the ordinances of God so much had this prevailed among the Jews, that the traditions of the elders, had almost supplanted the laws of God; so that it was said of them, In vain they do worship me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. And in the christian church, it is well known, that the mystery of iniquity soon began to work, that the church was'subject to Christ was quickly for gotten; and will worship, and the plea of expedi ency, soon produced the utmost diversity of opinion and practice, instead of that unity of judgment and Conduct, which might have been expected to result from allegiance 'to' the King of Saints, and con formity to the p'rec'epts and example of his word Every word of 'god is pare, add thou not unto hisjwords, lest he reprove thee and thou be found a -prov. Xxx. 5. 6. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
