"I am not ignorant, that as the
Israelites loathed the manna, because that every day they saw and ate but one
thing, so some there be nowadays, (who will not be holden of the worst sort)
that after once reading some parcels of Scripture, so commit themselves
altogether to profane authors and human lectures, because that the variety of
matter therein contained doeth bring with it daily delectation, wherein
contrarywise within the simple Scriptures of God the perpetual repetition of
one thing is fashious and wearisome. This temptation, I confess, may enter in
God’s elect for a time, but impossible is it that therein they continue to the
end; for God’s election, besides other evident signs, hath this ever joined
with it, that God’s elect are called from ignorance (I speak of those that are
come to the years of knowledge) to some taste and feeling of God’s mercy, of
which they are never so satisfied in this life, but from time to time they
hunger and they thirst to eat the bread descended from heaven and to drink the
water that springeth to life everlasting; which they cannot do but by the means
of faith, and faith looketh ever to the will of God revealed by the Word, so
that faith hath both her beginning and continuance by the Word of God. And so I
say, that impossible it is that God’s chosen children can despise or reject the
word of their salvation of any long continuance, neither yet loathe it to the
end."
John Knox – Letter of Wholesome Counsel
So Johnnie Knox had the same problems then that exist today. 'Ayn hadasseh tachat ha-shemesh!--as Solomon would say. (Qohelet 1:9c).
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting. People have an insatiable desire for the "new and improved." This is no small headache for ministers of the Word who teach timeless, eternal truth.
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