[RegulatorCountry]

And as this pride increases, the ‘subject’ or study which confers such privilege will grow more and more complicated, the list of things forbidden will increase, till to get through a single day without supposed sin becomes like an elaborate step-dance, and this horrible network breeds self-righteousness in some and haunting anxiety in others. Meanwhile the ‘weightier matters of the Law’, righteousness itself, shrinks into insignificance under this vast overgrowth, so that the legalists strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.”

Funny you should cite this, it reads like a brief synopsis of Protestant Reformer objections to the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century.

[rzman21]

Some of the Protestant “Reformers” gripes about corruption in the Catholic Church in the early 16th century was warranted, but they threw the baby out with the bathwater in their revolution.

Only Luther didn’t aim to start a new religion. The others did.