Friday, January 14, 2011

Burgess on Gross Idolatry & How We May See Jesus

It is gross idolatry to make the works of God, a God; and it is but a more subtle idolatry, to make the works of Christ, a Christ.
—Burgess de Lege
Our understandings are of such a low stature, that we must climb up to the tree of life, the scriptures, to see Jesus. They are the only ladder whereby we climb up.
—Burgess