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“During the eight years that I labored in the Church as a lay catechist,” he Writes in 1735, “I never attempted expressly to interpret the Scriptures—that is to say, to positively declare that an apostle or a prophet meant to say such and such a thing when the matter was not so clear that every one, whether a Christian or not, would understand it in the same sense.

I confined myself, therefore, to well-known and incontestable truths, and this has always succeeded best with me. Indeed, although I was well aware that knowledge is not the essential thing, and although I had learnt fairly well to distinguish in theological principles those which are certain from those which are probable, and from those which are corollaries from both. I was, nevertheless, exceedingly afraid of falling into the slightest error, for I knew what influence it might have upon the will.
“Moreover, I regarded it as an extreme happiness not to fall into error myself or to lead others astray. By the grace of God, and by keeping to essential and fundamental and clearly and repeatedly revealed truths, this is not so difficult as one might suppose.”
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More truths from Zinzendorf

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“Although,” says he, in a letter written in 1729, “I am and Wish to remain a member of the Evangelical Church, I do not limit Christ and His truth to any sect. Whosoever believes that he is saved by the grace of the Lord Jesus, by living faith, that is to say whosoever seeks and finds in Him Wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, he is my brother, and I regard it as a useless and even injurious task to examine into his opinions on other matters, and to sit in judgment on his exegesis. In this sense they are right who say that it does not much trouble me that some are heterodox, but only in this sense.”

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MALCOLM Muggeridge was a searcher after truth for many years. In the course of this search, he traveled to Russia in order to explore the possibilities of Communism, only to be bitterly disappointed and disillusioned. Finally, he found in Christ the End of his search and exhorts us thus: “Let us as Christians rejoice that we see around us on every hand the decay of the institutions and instruments of power; intimations of empires falling to pieces, money in total disarray, dictators and parliamentarians alike nonplussed by the confusion and conflicts which encompass them.


“For it is precisely when every earthly hope has been explored and found wanting, when every possibility of help from earthly sources has been sought and is not forthcoming, when every recourse this world offers, moral as well as material, has been explored to no effect, when in the shivering cold the last faggot has been thrown on the fire and in the gathering darkness every glimmer of light has finally flickered out—it is then that Christ’s hand reaches out, sure and firm, that Christ’s words bring their inexpressible comfort, that His light shines brightest, abolishing the darkness forever. So, finding in everything only deception and nothingness, the soul is constrained to have recourse to God Himself and to rest content with Him.” P. 35

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