William Nicolson on the danger of separating theory and practice

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This post is not Sabbath specific, though the author applies the general principle that he is discussing to the Sabbath:

There is a great difference between the theoretical and the practical recognition of any truth; and a little attention to this difference might help us to account for much of the practical ungodliness that abounds in the world. The habit of substituting the theoretical for the practical, is by far too common a feature in the character of fallen man; and, in a thousand instances, when the sinner is detected in a practical violation of any truth, does he find a ready justification of himself in a verbal, or a speculative, or a theoretical admission of its obligations. ...

Or speak to the neglector of Divine ordinances, and set forth the duty of keeping the Sabbath, by waiting upon God in the preaching of the word, and you are in most cases sure to meet with a ready acknowledgment of the very becoming and proper habit of going to church. In his own case, he adroitly finds some hindrance by which he justifies his own practice; but in comparatively few instances will the propriety of the duty it-self be denied. Thus will the Sabbath-breaker condemn the Sabbath-breaker. ...

For more, see William Nicolson on the danger of separating theory and practice.
 
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