Faults Worship

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Faults Worship

The Lord says, “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men. Therefore once more I will astound these people with wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of the wise will perish, the intelligence of the intelligent will vanish.” Isaiah 29:13-14


Louis XI made a donation to the Virgin Mary of the whole country of Boulogne, retaining, however, for his own use, the revenues thereof! A solemn deed was drawn up, signed, sealed, and delivered, and it bears the date 1478. What a ridiculous farce! The instrument gives away just nothing at all. But are there no such farces among us? When people of mean and miserly dispositions sing certain of our hymns, are they not guilty of just such a pretense of generosity? With abundance of goods in their power, they fumble for a nickel in their pockets, singing, meanwhile,
“Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine
Demands my soul, my life, my all.”

Charles H Spurgeon