A good man’s life is all of a piece.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEA good man’s life is all of a piece.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEIt is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEDid 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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTESome things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEHe that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTETruth 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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEFear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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 WHICHCOTEMan is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEEntrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEModesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTENone are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEAn idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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 WHICHCOTENo man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThose 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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