Do not put implicit confidence in any man\u2019s opinion,
\nmerely because he is a minister.
\nWhat are the best of ministers but men\u2013
\ndust, ashes and clay-
\nmen with a nature like our own,
\nmen exposed to temptations,
\nmen liable to weaknesses and failings.
\nThey have often driven the truth into the wilderness,
\nand decreed that to be true, which was false.
\nThe greatest errors have been begun by ministers.
\nPeace without truth is a false peace;
\nit is the very peace of the devil.
\nUnity without the gospel is a worthless unity;
\nit is the very unity of hell.
\nWe ought to contend jealously for the truth and to
\nfear the loss of truth more that the loss of peace.
\nTo maintain pure truth in the church, we should be ready
\nto make any sacrifice, to hazard peace, to risk dissension
\nand run the chance of division.
\nNever let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth
\non the altar of peace.
\nWe should no more tolerate false doctrine
\nthan we would tolerate sin.
\nTo regularly hear unscriptural teaching is a serious thing.
\nIt is a continual dropping of slow poison into the mind.
\nLet us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing
\nwhich is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do not put implicit confidence in any man\u2019s opinion, merely because he is a minister. What are the best of ministers but men\u2013 dust, ashes and clay- men with a nature like our own, men exposed to temptations, men liable to weaknesses and failings. They have often driven the truth into the wilderness, and decreed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j-c-ryle","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1098,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}