A Devotional Reading for February 28, 2025
From the pen of John Bunyan
Author of Pilgrim's Progress
And persecuted for his faith and preaching during the England's persecution of Independent ministers.
Do Not Marvel at My Worship Practice(s)
“A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds” Exodus 12: 38.And no marvel!
1. [A] mixed communion polluted the ordinances of God. Say to the rebels saith the Lord God. Let it suffice you for all your abominations: That you have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh. These in my sanctuary to pollute it; even my house when you offered my bread and the fat, and the blood. And they have broken my Covenant because of all their abominations (Ezekiel 44: 6-8).
2. It violated the Law; her priests have violated my Law and profaned my holy things. (how) they have put no difference, between the holy and prophane; neither have they shewed difference between the unclean, and the clean (Ezekiel 22: 6).
3, It profaned the holiness of God: Judah hath dealt treacherously and an abomination is committed in Israel and Jerusalem: For Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange God (Malachi 2: 11).
4. It defiled the truly Gracious [!] Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump: Look diligently therefore lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled (1 Corinthians 5: 6; Hebrews 12: 15-16).
Lastly, to conclude, as I have said, it provoked God to punish with severe judgments: And [we should] therefore heed well[!]
As I said before, the drowning of the whole world was occasioned, by the sons of God commixing themselves with the daughters of men; and the corruption of worship that followed (Genesis Chapters 6 & 7). [And] he sent a plague upon the children of Israel, for joining themselves unto the people of Moab; and for following their abominations in worship:
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