Conscience without judgment is superstition.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTERepentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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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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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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