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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

Benjamin Whichcote

A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
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
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
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
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
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
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament
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
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Carrie Idol Men
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
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Democracy Men Passion
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

The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

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