‘We admire a man who was firm in the faith, say four hundred years ago…but such a man today is a nuisance, and must be put down.  Call him a narrow-minded bigot, or give him a worse name if you can think of one.  Yet imagine that in those ages past, Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, and their compeers [peers] had said, “The world is out of order; but if we try to set it right we shall only make a great row, and get ourselves into disgrace.  Let us go to our chambers, put on our night-caps, and sleep over the bad times, and perhaps when we wake up things will have grown better.”  Such conduct on their part would have entailed upon us a heritage of error.  Age after age would have gone down into the infernal deeps, and the pestiferous gobs of error would have swallowed all.  These men loved the faith and the name of Jesus too well to see them trampled on…’

-C.H. Spurgeon, Holding fast the faith, Feb 5, 1988

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(GSiV: Humility; What is (biblical) Manhood?; God’s Wrath: J. Bridges)