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Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
Take away the self-conceited, and there will be elbowroom in the world.
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Conceited Pride Self
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
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
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
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
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Reform Religion Thinking
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Conceited Error Wisdom
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust

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