Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTELet not a man’s self be to him all in all.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAn idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEWhat is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENo men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEHe is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTESuch an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe judge is nothing but the law speaking.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEFear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAn ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEA guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEIt 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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