NEW DOCTRINES by J. Clarke

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 26, 1860

NEW DOCTRINES.

By J. Clarke

It is often observed by the opposers of present truth, by way of taunt, that we are teaching novel doctrines. Let such read and ponder the following extract from D'Aubigne's Hist. of the Ref., page 213, vol. 1, and observe the striking analogy between those times and ours. J. CLARKE.

"Already many doctors began to speak ill of the Wittenburg professors, and accused them of innovation. 'One would say,' continues Luther, 'that there had never lived men before us who taught as we teach.—Yes in truth there have been many. But the anger of God, which our sins have deserved, has prevented us from seeing and hearing them. For a long time the universities have banished the word of God into a corner. Let them read this book, and then let them say whether our theology is new, for this is not a new book."