God’s Controversy with Israel (3) Hosea 4:6

When there is a lack of the knowledge of God and of the law of God, ignorance darkens man’s mind and heart, and begets superstition and fanaticism.  Instead of being edified in true knowledge by the pure preaching of the Word of God, the people turn to dumb images as supposed books for the laity.  Their priests or ministers, like Arminius, go off to Rome, become thoroughly Pelagianized (Pelagianism, a heresy thrown out Rome’s front door, but allowed to sneak back in through its back door), then...