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"To wear Christ's livery and to do Him no service is but to mock a
gracious Master; to own Him in our profession and deny Him in our practice,
is, with Judas, to betray Him with a kiss of homage; with the rude soldiers
to bow the knee before Him, and, in the meantime, to beat His sacred head
with His reeden scepter, and with Pilate to crown him with thorns, to crucify
the Lord and write over His head, 'King of the Jews': in a word, to grieve
Him with our honours, and wound Him with our acknowledgments. A Christian
profession without a life answerable, will be so far from saving anyone,
[but rather] 'twill highly aggravate his condemnation."
-- Adam Littleton (1627-1694)
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