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Among other sins forbidden under the Second Commandment, according to Thomas Boston, are

“All making of things to be sin or duty which God hath not made so, Matth. xv. 2. Whatever be men’s pretences in this, it is an invading of the power and authority of the great Lawgiver, an accusing of his word of imperfection, and very dangerous, Prov. xxx. 6. This is the great occasion of sad divisions and schisms in the church, while men, not content with plain duty appointed of God, make the conceptions of their own hearts sins and duties, which God never made so, and impose them on others as terms of Christian communion, which superstition can never be sanctified by their fathering it wrongously on the scripture, Prov. xxx. 6.”

Thus legalism and pietism are really at their core but idolatrous manufactures of men, narrowing the Lord’s heritage.

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