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The European Union in Prophecy
When first constrained to separate from the English Church, the Puritans had
joined themselves together by a solemn covenant, as the Lord's free people, "to walk
together in all His ways made known or to be made known to them." --J. Brown, The
Pilgrim Fathers, page 74. Here was the true spirit of reform, the vital principle of
Protestantism. It was with this purpose that the Pilgrims departed from Holland to
find a home in the New World. John Robinson, their pastor, who was providentially
prevented from accompanying them, in his farewell address to the exiles said:
"Brethren, we are now erelong to part asunder, and the Lord knoweth whether
I shall live ever to see your faces more. But whether the Lord hath appointed it or not,
I charge you before God and His blessed angels to follow me no farther than I have
followed Christ. If God should reveal anything to you by any other instrument of His,
be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth of my ministry; for I am
very confident the Lord hath more truth and light yet to break forth out of His holy
word."--Martyn, vol. 5, p. 70.
"For my part, I cannot sufficiently bewail the condition of the reformed churches,
who are come to a period in religion, and will go at present no farther than the
instruments of their reformation. The Lutherans cannot be drawn to go beyond what
Luther saw; . . . and the Calvinists, you see, stick fast where they were left by that
great man of God, who yet saw not all things. This is a misery much to be lamented;
for though they were burning and shining lights in their time, yet they penetrated not
into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace
further light as that which they first received."--D. Neal, History of the Puritans, vol.
1, p. 269.
"Remember your church covenant, in which you have agreed to walk in all the
ways of the Lord, made or to be made known unto you. Remember your promise and
covenant with God and with one another, to receive whatever light and truth shall be
made known to you from His written word; but withal, take heed, I beseech you, what
you receive for truth, and compare it and weigh it with other scriptures of truth before
you accept it; for it is not possible the Christian world should come so lately out of
such thick antichristian darkness, and that full perfection of knowledge should break
forth at once."--Martyn, vol. 5, pp. 70, 71.
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