MINGLE-MANGLE RELIGION by G. C. Tenney

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, February 19, 1880.

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 8

MINGLE-MANGLE RELIGION.

By G. C. Tenney

BY ELD. G. C. TENNEY.

Germany made a “mingle-mangle” of her religion according to the inclosed extract, which I copy almost verbatim from the writings of Bishop Latimer, 1550. Its truthfulness is evident, and its application to more modern religion quite appropriate.

“Germany was visited twenty yeares wyth Goddes word, but they dyd not earnestlye embrace it, and in lyfe follow it, but made a myngle-mangle and a hotch-potch of it.

“I cannot tell what, partely popery, partely true religion mingled together. They say in my countrey, where they call theyr hogges to the swyne troughe, ‘Come to the myngle-mangle, come pyr, come pyr,’ even so they made myngle-mangle of it.

“They could clatter and prate about the Gospell, but when all cometh to all, they joined popery so with it, that they marred all together. God, seynge (seeing) they woulde not come into hys worde, now he visiteth them in the seconde time of hys visitation wyth hys wrathe. For the taking away of Goddes worde is a manyfest token of hys wrath. We have now a first visitation in Englande, let us beware of the seconde. We have the mynistration of hys worde, we are yet well, but the house is not cleane swepte yet.”