"For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (1 Cor 2:2).
For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
in which the Old Serpent so gladly lurks, and endeavours under the most plausible pretexts, to allure us from simplicity of heart, into all kinds of useless speculations and injurious debates; so that the better part is often forgotten and neglected in consequence of it, and the man falls imperceptibly into all kinds of errors and mistakes, as painful experience daily confirms.
Gerhard Tersteegen
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