John Sinclair posted (on FaceBook) in Covenanter.org - There are two types of people who speak of their concern for the reform of the church--1.) those who resolve to quit the false church; and 2.) those who wish to haggle and "transform" the false church from within...Beza says the latter class are worse than open declared enemies of the truth:
"In a word therefore, the first point of returning unto the Church of God, is a resolution of quitting and forsaking the false Church, without any either chaffering [haggling] and merchandizing or looking behind vs, as we are warned, Luke 9.62. & Phil. 3.13. as this spouse also is expressly warned to forget her own people and her father's house, before the King can take pleasure in her beauty, Psal. 45.11. And this is a point which they above all others ought well to think upon, who at this day, when this point is handled and debated among us, mince out their way on both sides, thinking to agree fire and water together: calling them transformers of the Church, who would reform it exactly according unto the pattern of the word of God: men a great deal more dangerous then those who declare themselves utter enemies of the truth."--Theodore Beza, Reformed theologian and supralapsarian Reformer (1587), emphases added.
