Notice that I placed an attachment to Gulliver's Travels as a link on the sidebar of the Blog today!
I love that story and this is not the first time that I have seen the relationship between Gulliver and the 1689 confession.
This time, I have seen the beauty of the Irish people's ability to see the true beauty and power of a thing in its inception. I think that is what happened to Swift when he saw the 1689 confession. I thought this of myself, but I don't think I have ever met anyone else who put it quite as beautifully as Swift did.
I know that you disagree with me, but let me get my argument out before you shut me up.
God took us from a far country in our thinking to love and embrace the 1689 confession. We were privy to several seasons, at least 3 different times learning the confession in Sunday school. What a beautiful experience. How truly stimulating in mind and spirit to study issues that great men actually agreed on! Often we study things that made people disagree. But this is an exercise in coming to a common thought on several subjects, through the scriptures.
We realized just how very hard it was when someone in our church suggested that we attempt to come to agreement on some contemporary subjects and create a 1989 confession. We couldn't do it. We never did accomplish that Herculean task and so we suffice it to place our hands in and agree with the people in 1689. Leaving our contemporary issues to flail in the breeze of disagreement.
There is safety and life in learning to submit yourself to elders and to a confession, in your thinking. It gives you a view of issues in your own day that is from above. Not in the same way that praise takes you above your calamities, but in a more intellectual way. I would love it if we could go through the book together and write our observations in relation to the 1689 or Heidleberg, which is your own chosen confession, of late. In any case, I am looking forward to the discussions on this train of thought.
Your Obedient Servant,
Mom
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