"Therefore Come Out From Them And Be Separate, Says The LORD."

The city was full of idols!

(Charles Spurgeon, 1863)

"While Paul was waiting for them 

in Athens, he was greatly distressed 

to see that the city was full of idols!" 

Acts 17:16 

With what indignation must the LORD 

look down upon that apostate harlot, 

called the Romish Church, when, in all 

her sanctuaries, there are idolatrous 

statues, relics and shrines; and poor 

infatuated beings are even taught 

to bow before a piece of bread. 

In England, Popish idolatry is not so 

boldly barefaced as it is in other lands; 

but I have seen it, and my soul has been 

moved with indignation like that of Paul 

on Mars' Hill, when he saw the city given 

up wholly to idolatry. 

I have seen . . .
  thousands adore the wafer,
  hundreds bow before the statue of the Virgin,
  scores at prayer before a crucifix, and
  companies of men and women adoring 

a rotten bone or a rusty nail, because it 

is said to be the relic of a saint

Purge yourselves, purge yourselves 

of this leaven! I charge you before 

GOD, the Judge of the living and 

the dead, if you would not be partakers 

of her plagues, then come out from her, 

and let your protest be increasingly 

vehement against this church which 

exalts itself above GOD.

Let our Protestant Churches, which 

have too great a savor of Popery 

in them, cleanse themselves of her 

fornications, lest the LORD visit them 

with fire and pour the plagues of Babylon 

upon them. 

Renounce, my brethren, every 

ceremony which has not Scripture 

for its warrant; and every doctrine 

which is not established by the plain 

testimony of the Word of GOD. 

Let us, above all, never by any word 

or deed, have any complicity with this 

communion of devils, this gathering 

together of the sons of Baal. And since 

our GOD is a jealous GOD, let us not 

provoke HIM by any affinity, fellowship, 

or amity with this Mother of Harlots and 

abominations of the earth.

"Therefore come out from them and be 

separate, says the LORD. Touch no unclean 

thing, and I will receive you. I will be a 

FATHER to you, and you will be MY sons 

and daughters, says the LORD Almighty." 

2 Corinthians 6:17-18 

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