The Pretention of the Apostate

(Address delivered on the occasion of the commemoration by the Protestant Reformed Churches of the "Afscheiding" of 1834 in the Netherlands) It is a fact that when in the bosom of the apostate church, the Lord prompts his servants, whom He raises up, to remove the light of the word from under the bushel and to place it upon the candlestick, to plead for a return to the law and the testimonies, that the apostate church invariably denies that it has aposta­tized and insists, by cleaving to its...