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Art/Literary - Religion / against infant baptism | | English term or phrase: cut the law short | | The saints have no confidence in man's externals. I call those things so, which God never made duty, but men make them so. These are not only "vain confidence", but vain worship and service, that "is loathsome to God" (cf. Matt. XV. 9). Men are apt to ***cut the law short enough*** "as it is found in the Word, but men's nature has a wonderful itching after "making additions of their own" to it. Hence a cloud of superstition has darkened some churches, and the simplicity of gospel-worship is despised. Men's inventions are brought in upon, yea, instead of divine institutions! |
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34 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +3 interpret so as to reduce the demands of God's law to a minimum
Explanation:
This is saying that people will interpret God's laws in the way most convenient to themselves.
| B D Finch
France
Local time: 04:11
Native speaker of:  English
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