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Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.

Benjamin Whichcote

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Evil Good Measure Some Themselves
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Done Guilt Mind
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
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Learning Taught Teacher
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Evil Fear Prophetical
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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Hypocrisy Men Soul
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Lying Mean Use
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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Christian Men Understanding
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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Knowledge Known Knows Least
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States

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