J.C. Ryle:
Do not put implicit confidence in any man’s opinion, merely because he is a minister.
What are the best of ministers but men; 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 that to be true, which was false. The greatest errors have been begun by ministers.
Peace without truth is a false peace; it is the very peace of the devil. Unity without the gospel is a worthless unity; it is the very unity of hell. Continue reading
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