The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTESuch an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Those that differ upon Reason, may come together by Reason.
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A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Some are Atheists by Neglect; others are so by Affectation; they, that think there is no God at some times; do not think so at all times.
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Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.
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Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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An ill principle in the mind is worse than the matter of a disease in the body.
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Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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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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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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A benefactor is a representative of God.
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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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