From Richard Sibbes: This should teach us to labour for sincerity, to have hearts upright towards God; and then, he will send us men of a direct and right spirit, that shall teach us according to his own heart. But if we be false-hearted, God will give us teachers that shall teach us, not according to his will, but to please our own. We shall light upon belly-gods and epicures, and shall fall into the hands of priests and Jesuits. Where such are, there are the judgments of God upon the people, because they do not desire to know the will of God in truth. We see (Ezek. 14:3,4), the people desired to have a stumbling block for their iniquity. They were naught ['naughty', wicked], and would have idols. Therefore they desired stumbling blocks. They would have false prophets, that so they might go to hell with some authority. Josiah's Reformation , Richard Sibbes, Banner of Truth Trust, 2011 - originally published in 1629, pg. 4. This passage by Sibbes made me want to weep, be...