To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.
From John Nelson Darby
Let those who like society better have it.
Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.
The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect.
The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.
Nationalism - in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies - consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are found dwelling in it.
If real churches exist, such persons are not called on to make them.
I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.
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