Let us remember, that we live in a world where Pharisaism and
Sadduceeism are continually striving for the mastery in the Church of
Christ. Some want to add to the Gospel, and some want to take away from
it. Some would bury it, and some would pare it down to nothing. Some
would stifle it by heaping on additions, and some would bleed it to
death by subtraction from its truths. Both parties agree only in one
respect. Both would kill and destroy the life of Christianity, if they
succeeded in having their own way. Against both errors let us watch and
pray, and stand upon our guard. Let us not add to the Gospel, to please
the Roman Catholic Pharisee. Let us not subtract from the Gospel, to
please the Neologian Sadducee. Let our principle be “the truth, the
whole truth, and nothing but the truth,” nothing added to it, and
nothing taken away.
J. C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on Matthew (New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1860), p. 191-92.
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