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Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.
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Moments Place Soul
To forbid birth is only quicker murder.
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Birth Death Murder
Shall we carry a flag? It is a rival to Christ.
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Religious Violence
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
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Evil Fear Nature Shame
All the Scriptures give clear proof of the Trinity, and it is from these that our principle is deduced…the distinction of the Trinity is quite clearly displayed.
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Principles Religious
See how these Christians love one another.
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Love Religious Togetherness
Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.
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Power Religious Violence
A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.
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Beautiful Lust Religious
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: ‘Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.’
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Nature Poet Rumor
Nothing that is God’s is obtainable by money.
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God Money
For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?
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Discipline Law Willing
Can we not live without pleasure, who cannot but with pleasure die?
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Death Philosophy Pleasure
Fear is the foundation of safety.
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Fear Foundation Safety
Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God – the Teacher of the teacher.
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Nature Soul Teaching
Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Fire Food
We say, and we say openly, and while ye torture us, mangled and gory we cry out, “We worship God through Christ!” Believe Him a man: it is through Him and in Him that God willeth Himself to be known and worshipped.
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Believe Himself Men Religious

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