"Show us anything plainly written in that Book, and, however trying to flesh and blood, we will receive it, believe it, and submit to it. Show us anything, as religion, which is contrary to that Book, and, however specious, plausible, beautiful, and apparently desirable, we will not have it at any price...Here is rock: all else is sand."?
- J.C. Ryle
Knots Untied is J.C. Ryle's leading work in defence of the evangelicalism of the Church of England. It is a classic volume in which Ryle covers the then current disputes about various points of religion within the Church of England, advocating and defending the evangelical position at every turn.
Referring to Ryle's presentation of the evangelical position, J. I. Packer says, "he sets it forth so clearly, so brilliantly, and so compellingly - in a word, so very, very well... In this, as in so much else, his work retains benchmark status; for surely in principle his evangelicalism is neither more nor less than New Testament Christianity."?
View an excerpt here.
Knots Untied is in the following collections:
