The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia

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People don't write this powerfully anymore, at least not very often. From Francis Turretin (one of the most difficult to read theologians out there) on our religion. Here is a sample...

Our religion is that which is wholly occupied with knowing the one and triune God, the Creator, preserver and Redeemer, and rightly worshipping him according to his command. It gives the entire glory of our salvation to God alone and writes against man alone the true cause of his sin and destruction. It is our religion which recognizes no other rule of faith and practice beside the sacred Sciptures; no other mediator and head of the church than Christ; no other propitiatory sacrifice than his death; no other purgatory than his blood; no other merit than his obedience; no other intercession than his prayers. It is our religion which teaches that God alone is to be adored and invoked and does not allow the glory and the religious worship due to him to be transferred to creatures. It is our religion which depresses man as much as possible by taking away from him all presumption of his own strength and merits; and raises him to the highest point by preaching that the grace and mercy of God is the one only cause of salvation, both as to acquisition and as to application. It is our religion which proclaims war against all vices, recommends all virtues and presses the necessity of holiness and good works unto salvation; places piety and worship, not in bodily exercises, which are of little advantage (for instance the distinction of food, the observance of festivals, fasts, pilgrimages, flagellations and other external ceremonies and will worships (ethelothreskeias) , which God has nowhere enjoined), but in worship in spirit and truth, consisting in a pure heart, a good conscience, faith unfeigned, love, and the practice of good works.

Click here to read the rest, well worth your time.