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Believe things, rather than man.

Benjamin Whichcote

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Humble Inspirational Self Esteem
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
Repentance doth alter a man’s case with God: and therefore repentance should alter the case between one man and another.
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Men Repentance Should
Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Lying Mean Use
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Evil Fear Prophetical
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
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Acceptance Law Teacher
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Grace Law Men
Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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Degrees Heaven Religion
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.
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Ends Life Wish
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use

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