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Benjamin Whichcote

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
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
Did Christians live according to their Religion, they would do nothing but what Truth, Righteousness, and Goodness do, according to their understanding and ability: and then one man would be a God unto another.
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Christian Men Understanding
It 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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Becoming Mercy Submission
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Guilty Jealous Measure Men Some
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
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
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Men Wisdom Wise
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
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
It is impossible for a man to be made happy by putting him in a happy place, unless he be first in a happy state.
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Firsts Impossible Men
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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Knowledge Known Knows Least

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