USE OF ORDINANCES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1925, 22 August 1888, Page 3

USE OF ORDINANCES.

» . There are (four sort of men who are concerned with order, laws, and customs. Some keep them neither for God's sake nor to cervo their own ends, but from constraint ; these have as little to do with them as may be, and find them a burden and heavy yoke. The second sort obey for tbe sake of reward ; these are men who know nothing beside, or better than laws and preoopta, and imagine that by keeping them they, may obtain the Kingdom of Heaven and eternal life, and not otherwise ; and him who praotlseth many ordinances tbey thluk to be holy, and him who omltteth any title of them they think to be lost. Such men are very much In earnest and give their diligence to the work, and yet they find It a weariness, The third sort are wicked, false-hearted men, who dream and declare that they are perfeot and need no ordinances, and make a mook of them. The fourth are thode who are enlightened with tbe True Light, who do not practise these things for reward, for they neither look nor desire to got anything theraby, bnt all that they do 1b from love alone. And these are not so anxious and eager to accomplish muoh and with all Bpeed as the second sort, but rather seek to do things m peace and good leisure; and If some not weighty matter be neglected, they do not think themselves lost, for they know very well that order and fitness are better than disorder, and therefore they choose to walk orderly, yet know at the same time that their salvation hangeth not thereon . Therefore ithey are not In so great anxiety as the others.— Tkeologia. Germanica.