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.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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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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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul.
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Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Will, without reason, is a blind man’s motion; will, against reason, is a madman’s motion.
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None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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