The Clear Proof of the True Church of God

To the Reader.

...putting aside all prejudice, and looking not so much at the person who has composed it as at the truth of the matters presented therein; so that what befell the Jews might not happen [to you], who were so offended by the lowliness and insignificance of the person of Christ and His Apostles The author refers to the historical and theological idea that many rejected Jesus because he appeared as a humble carpenter rather than a worldly king. that they thereby prevented themselves from accepting the truth and being saved; always remembering the words of the Apostle where he says: Consider your calling, etc. But God has chosen the foolish things of this world to put the wise to shame; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put the strong to shame.

And the base things of the world, and the things which are despised, God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are. A quotation of 1 Corinthians 1:26–28. This was a popular passage among Pietist and "Further Reformation" writers to justify why uneducated or laypeople might have deeper spiritual insights than university-trained theologians.

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