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Give no glory to this rubbish!
The following is from Spurgeon's sermon,
"Christ the Glory of His People" #826. Luke 2:32.
Alas! alas! It makes a Christian's blood
boil to see glory given to a pack of scamps
who call themselves priests!
Does it not make a man feel, when you see
pictures of 'his holiness' and the cardinals,
and so on, scattering their benedictions at
the Vatican, or at St. Peter's, while admiring
crowds fall down and worship them, that it
were infinitely better to bow to the devil himself?
We give glory unto God, but not a particle
of glory to anything in the shape of a man,
or an angel either.
Have I not stood and seen the crowds by
hundreds fall down and worship images
and dressed up dolls? I have seen them
worship bones and old teeth; I have seen
them worship a skeleton, dressed out in
modern costume said to be the skeleton
of a saint.
I have marveled to see people so infatuated
as to think that such idolatry was pleasing
to the most high God.
We, brethren, the people of God, who know
Christ, can give no glory to this rubbish,
but turn away from it with horror!
Our glory must be given to
Christ, and to Christ alone!
Christ and Christ only must be the grand
object of the Christian; the promotion of
his glory must be that for which he is willing
to live, and for which, if needs be, he would
be prepared to die.
Oh! down, down, down, with everything else,
but up, up, up, with the cross of Christ!
Down with your baptism, and your masses, and
your sacraments! Down with your priest-craft,
and your rituals, and your liturgies! Down with
your fine music, and your pomp, and your robes,
and your garments, and all your ceremonials.
But up, up, up, with the doctrine of the
naked cross, and the expiring Savior!
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