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‘Let us remember, not least, the enormous injury which we may do to souls, if we once allow ourselves to depart in the least degree from the simplicity of the gospel either in our doctrine or in our worship. Who can estimate the shipwrecks that might occur in a single night, and the lives that might be lost, if a light-house keeper dared to alter but a little the colour of his light?\u2014Who can estimate the deaths that might take place in a town, if the chemist took on himself to depart but a little from the doctor\u2019s prescriptions?\u2014Who can estimate the wholesale misery that might be caused in a war, by maps a little wrong and charts a little incorrect?\u2014Who can estimate these things?\u2014Then perhaps you may have some idea of the spiritual harm that ministers may do by departing in the slightest degree from the scriptural proportions of the gospel, or by trying to catch the world by dressing simple old Evangelical religion in new clothes.’ — <\/em>J.C. Ryle (from chapter 1, ‘Evangelical Religion’)<\/p>\n

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Knots Untied<\/em> is J. C. Ryle\u2019s leading work in defence of the evangelicalism of the Church of England. When first published in 1874 it proved immensely popular, and by 1885 it was reprinted in a tenth edition. Knots Untied<\/em> is a classic volume in which Ryle covers the then current disputes about various points of religion within the Church of England, advocating and defending the evangelical position at every turn.<\/p>\n

Knots Untied<\/em> is unashamedly written from the \u2018standpoint of an Evangelical Churchman\u2019. Ryle\u2019s presentation of the evangelical position is simply outstanding, \u2018not because it differs substantially from what other evangelicals might say, but because\u2019, according to J. I. Packer, \u2018he sets it forth so clearly, so brilliantly, and so compellingly \u2013 in a word, so very, very well. \u2026 In this, as in so much else, his work retains benchmark status; for surely in principle his evangelicalism is neither more nor less than New Testament Christianity.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Show us anything plainly written in that Book, and, however trying to flesh and blood, we will receive it, believe it, and submit to it. Show us anything, as religion, which is contrary to that Book, and, however specious, plausible, beautiful, and apparently desirable, we will not have it at any price…Here is rock: all else is sand.\u2019 J. C. Ryle on the Bible as the only rule of faith and practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

‘Let us remember, not least, the enormous injury which we may do to souls, if we once allow ourselves to depart in the least degree from the simplicity of the gospel either in our doctrine or in our worship. 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