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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.

Benjamin Whichcote

Every profession does imply a trust for the service of the public.
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Imply Profession Service
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
Every man is born with the faculty of reason and the faculty of speech, but why should he be able to speak before he has anything to say?
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Able Men Speak Speech
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
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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Atheism Atheist Thinking
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
He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.
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Perfection Pleasure Use
He that is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
We never better enjoy ourselves than when we most enjoy God.
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Better Enjoy God Ourselves
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
The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.
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Grace Incompatibilities Sin States
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 prophetical of evil.
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Evil Fear Prophetical
Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself.
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Govern Men Self Wonder
None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
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Reform Religion Thinking
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
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Charity Good More Ourselves
He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.
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Fit Self Thinking
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
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
Conscience is … the God dwelling in us.
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Conscience Dwelling
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

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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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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