King David is said to have executed Judgment and Justice to all his People, 2 Sam. viii. 15. So is King Solomon likewise, 1 Kings x. 9. the Queen of Sheba giveth Him that Title.  To do Justice is the Title also of others (and not many neither, but yet of some others.)  But to be Justice, to be Righteousness ;  that is the Name of none but Christ only.  His, and His only is that Title :  therefore, as well in this regard, as in the former, this is the very chief Part in the Ecce, the Name of JEHOVAH our Righteousness.- Lancelot Andrewes(Anglican)

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[God] said, “[As for] the servant bought with money, first let the flesh of his foreskin be circumcized, and then he may eat of the Passover sacrifice.”

The servant who is bought represents the sinful person who repents and is bought by the blood of Christ. When his heart has been circumcized of evil actions, he then comes to baptism, the consummation of true circumcision, and he is joined to the people of God, and participates in the body and blood of Christ. As for where he said “It must be eaten quickly,” this is done in the Church of God, where they eat the lamb quickly in trembling and fear while standing on their feet, because they hasten to eat life from the spiritual gift that they have received. - Aphrahat the Persian Sage, Demonstration on the Passover

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40 Since, therefore, these things are now clear to us and we have searched into the depths of the divine knowledge, we ought to do, in order, everything that the Master has commanded us to perform at the appointed times. Now he commanded the offerings and services to be performed diligently, and not to be done carelessly or in disorder, but at designated times and occasions.

Both where and by whom he wants them to be performed, he himselfhas determined by his supreme will, so that all things, being done devoutly according to his good pleasure, may be acceptable to his will. Those, therefore, who make their offerings at the appointed times are acceptable and blessed, for those who follow the instructions of the Master cannot go wrong. For to the high priest the proper services have been given, and to the priests the proper office has been assigned, and upon the Levites the proper ministries have been imposed. The layman is bound by the layman's rules.-Pope St Clement of Rome

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Was Daniel cast into the lions' den by those who feared God?

Or were Ananias, Azarias, and Mishael shut up in the fiery furnace by those devoted to the magnificent and glorious worship of the Most High?

Of course not! Who, then, were the people who did these things?

Abominable people, full of all wickedness, who were stirred up to such a pitch of wrath that they tortured cruelly those who served God with a holy and blameless resolve; they did not realize that the Most High is the champion and protector of those who with a pure conscience worship his excellent name. Το him be the glory for ever and ever. Amen. But those who patiently endured with confidence inherited glory and honor; they were exalted and had their names recorded by God as their memorial for ever and ever. Amen. -Pope St Clement of Rome

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Funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth

Commandment Boards at St Mary's, Horncastle, late c17th

It was especially then that I loved the divine Apostle who so vividly depicts the civil war within us, where he says there is a certain law of sin in the members, warring against the law of the mind which often makes the mind both captive and subject to itself (cf. Rom 7.23).

This is what I saw in myself, the battle-line of two reasonings, one ranged against the other: the one for crushing such hubris and inflation, the other for calming the swelling anger. When by God’s grace the better impulse prevailed- St Gregory of Nyssa, Letter to Bishop Flavan

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#Soteriology

Yearly reminder to not make idols of your favourite Saints, as they, not being God, will fail you.

I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth;
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.
-The Book of Job, chapter 19, verse 25

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