"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.
both in our outward and inward walk, of all subtle hypocrisy, dissimulation, and a self-assumed deportment, which is so displeasing to God; but seek, on the contrary, to do all things in simplicity, sincerity, and cordiality, without reference to man, but solely in order to please God.
Gerhard Tersteegen
Although we may be delivered from the law, and no longer so conscious of its threatenings, reproofs, and the terror…
Let us avoid all unnecessary converse and hurtful association with the world and frivolous people, and likewise with those, who…
in which the Old Serpent so gladly lurks, and endeavours under the most plausible pretexts, to allure us from simplicity…
especially for the Spirit of Jesus, that he may rule and work in us. It is he who alone can…