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How come Lee loved Martin Luther but hated the Lutherans, Baptists, etc? If you read the definition of a 'sect' (sorry but no citation), they're an offshoot of an original group, who despise what the original became, and say they're persecuted for righteousness' sake, but - get this - they say that they're the 'real' and 'true' original group! They, the sect, supposedly fulfill the mandate of the 'original' original group! The one that was pure and good Everyone else became hopelessly corrupted. Thus the need for the sect to separate and isolate in judgment from everyone else.

So Lee et al were the 'true' followers of Luther, not the Lutherans. Lee was the 'true' follower of Zinzendorf, Wesley and so forth. So he could trumpet his 'goodly heritage' in the Baptists, where he was saved, while simultaneously despising them all as harlots, corrupt, Babylon, etc. The best of both worlds!

Lee could wave the 'orthodoxy' credentials of evangelical Protestantism, while denying the legitimacy of any evangelical Protestants except his sect. Because his sect was the true, real heirs of the original church. Why, if Luther were alive today he'd be in a LC locality, not with the corrupt Lutherans! Wesley would abandon the Methodists in a heartbeat to come to the LC, who recovered not only the ground of oneness, but the method of masticating the processed Triune God and becoming God in life and nature but not in the Godhead, consummating the New Jerusalem. So LC members could sing Wesley's hymns (both Charles and John), while having nothing to do with any of their spiritual progeny. Because Lee was the true heir of the Wesleys. Don't you know.