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We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.

Benjamin Whichcote

Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.
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Degrees Heaven Religion
There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.
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Contention Religion Unnatural
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
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.
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Grace Law Men
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
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
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
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Manner Men Mind Wise
Fear is prophetical of evil.
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Evil Fear Prophetical
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
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
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Becoming Mercy Submission
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
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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Christian Good Human Nature

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