And then, when they see ignorant people running after quacks and
impostors, spirit-rappers and table-turners, St. Simonians and
Mormons, and false prophets of every kind, they will have nothing to
say but 'This people which knoweth not the law is accursed.' While
when they see anything like new truth, or new teaching from God
appear, instead of welcoming the light, and going to meet the light,
and accepting the light, they will say, 'What shall we do? For all
men will believe on him, and then the powers of this world will come
and take away our station and our order?' As if Christ could not
take better care of his Church for which he died than they can in
his stead! And so they will persecute God's servants, in the name
of God, and call upon the law to put down by force the men whom they
cannot put down by reason.
From ever falling into that state of stupid lip-belief, and outward
religion, and loss of faith in the living God: Good Lord, deliver
us.
From all blindness of heart; from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy;
from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness: Good Lord,
deliver us.
From all false doctrine, heresy, and schism; from hardness of heart
and contempt of thy word and commandment: Good Lord, deliver us.
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