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November 24, 2019
Gill's
commentary on Revelation 3:2
"Be
watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I
have not found thy works perfect before God."
"for
I have not found thy works perfect before God" :
meaning
that the reformers, and reformed churches, stuck where they first began; and
did not carry their works neither with respect to doctrine, and especially with
respect to discipline and worship, to a greater perfection, as they ought to
have done: and however perfect they might appear before men, they were not so
in the sight of the omniscient God, nor found so by Christ, before whom all
things are naked and open:...
"This
church, though she has departed from the corrupt church of Rome, and from her
evil doctrines and practices; yet did not go on to that perfection which might
have been expected and desired, and which would have rendered her praiseworthy,
whereas she is now discommended. It is an observation of a Jewish writer {h},
that "if one departs from an evil way, and does not do that which is good,
he does not whvem Mylvh, "make his work perfect," and he is not
pronounced blessed."
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What
an astute and incisive judgment.
John
Gill was no Protestant who came out of the Harlot church; he was a Baptist.
I
wrote this some years ago:
"Luther
and his fellow Protestant reformers amputated one of those two gangrenous limbs
embraced by the Harlot Church, and declares that justification before God is by
faith alone, and without works. The Protestant still ends up with one
GANGRENOUS limb - justification by faith ONLY! One cancerous limb is no less
cancerous than two CANCEROUS limbs! BOTH, the Harlot Church, and all her
"sola fidei" daughters are gravely and grievously mistaken, one no
less than the other."
Full
article here:
https://things-new-and-old.blogspot.com/2014/06/faith-and-works-or-faith-alone-or.html
