Against them all this law witnesses.
These things are unfit for the kingdom of Christ, contrary to the
laws and constitution thereof, hateful to the King thereof; and if a
nation will not amend these abominations, the King will arise out of
His place, and with sore judgments and terrible He will visit His
land and purify His temple, saying: "My Father's house should be a
house of prayer, and ye have made it a den of thieves." Ay, woe to
any soul, or to any nation, which, instead of putting on the Lord
Jesus Christ, copying His example, obeying His laws, and living
worthy of His kingdom, not only in the church, but in the market, the
shop, the senate, or the palace, give themselves up to covetousness,
which is idolatry; and care only to make provision for the flesh, to
fulfil the lusts thereof. Woe to them; for, let them be what they
will, their King cannot change. He is still meek and lowly; He is
still just and having salvation; and He will purge out of His kingdom
all that is not like Himself, the unchaste and the idle, the unjust
and the unmerciful, and the covetous man, who is an idolater, says
the scripture, though he may call himself seven times a Protestant,
and rail at the Pope in public meetings, while he justifies
greediness and tyranny by glib words about the necessities of
business and the laws of trade, and by philosophy falsely so called,
which cometh not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
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