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Scripture: Versus System

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The late William Jay, in his 'Practical Illustrations of Character,' says, 'What a difference must a Christian and a minister feel, between the trammels of some systems of divinity and the advantage of Scripture freedom, the glorious liberty of the sons of God. The one is the horse standing in the street in harness, feeding indeed, but on the contents of a bag tossed up and down; the other, the same animal in a large, fine meadow, where he lies down in green pastures, and feeds beside the still waters.


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Spurgeon, Charles. Entry for 'Scripture: Versus System'. Spurgeon's Illustration Collection. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​fff/​s/scripture-versus-system.html. 1870.
 
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