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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 2, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 22.

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[From John Robinson’s Farewell to the Puritans as they left Holland for America.]

WE are now to part asunder, and the Lord knoweth whether I shall live to see your faces again: but whether He hath appointed it or not, I charge you before God and His blessed angels to follow me no further than I have followed Christ. And if God shall reveal anything to you by any other instrument of His, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry; for I am very confident that the Lord has more truth and light yet to break forth out of His holy word. . . .

“The Lutherans could not be drawn to go beyond what Luther saw; for whatever part of God’s will He had further imparted and revealed to Calvin, they will rather die than embrace it. And so you see the Calvinists, they stick where he left them, a misery much to be lamented; for tho they were precious, shining lights in their times, yet God has not revealed His whole will to them. And were they now living, they would be as ready and willing to embrace further light, as that they had received.”

“And here I must put you in mind of our church covenant, wherein we promise and covenant with God and one another, to receive whatsoever light or truth that shall be made known to us from His written word. But withal, I exhort you to take heed what you receive for truth, and well to examine and compare it with other scriptures before you receive it; for it is not possible that the Christian world should come so lately out of such thick antichristian darkness, and that full perfection of knowledge should break forth at once.”