None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTEThe most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
More Benjamin Whichcote Quotes
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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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A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
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Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian.
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That power is in vain which is never in use.
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Fear is prophetical of evil.
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The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Riches are but a means, or instrument; and the virtue of an instrument lies in its use.
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Believe things, rather than man.
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We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.
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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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Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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