AR 442 [1, 2]
Then the sixth angel sounded.
(Revelation 13)
This symbolizes an examination and exposure
of the state of life among
those people
in the Protestant Reformed Church
who were not so wise,
and
yet who placed the whole of religion in faith,
thinking of it alone,
and of nothing besides it and ritual worship,
and so living as they
pleased.
are totally different from those
who have been the subject so far in this chapter,
whose falsities in matters of faith
were seen in the form of locusts.
They differ in this respect,
that the people described so far
devote themselves to zealously exploring
the mysteries of justification by faith
and to teaching its signs and its testimonies,
which to them are the goods of a moral and civic life,
asserting that although the precepts of the Word
are in themselves indeed Divine,
in people they become natural,
because they emanate from a person's will,
and being natural,
they lack any connection
with the spiritual components of faith.
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