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Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.

Benjamin Whichcote

Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
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
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust
Joy is the life of man’s life.
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Joy Life Man
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
Truth is not only a man’s ornament but his instrument; it is the great man’s glory, and the poor man’s stock: a man’s truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit.
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Credit Letters Men
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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Blind Men Willpower
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
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.
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Dignity Nature Unworthy
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
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Done Guilt Mind
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Evil Good Measure Some Themselves
Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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May Reason Together

Either be a true friend or a mere stranger: a true friend will delight to do good–a mere stranger will do no harm.

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