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Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Benjamin Whichcote

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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Approach Flower Soul Sun
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
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Depsoseth Shame Sin
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
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
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Able Men Speak Speech
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
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
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
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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Christian Good Human Nature
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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Manner Men Mind Wise
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin

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