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Where Religion does take place and is effectual, it makes this world, in measure and degree, representative of Heaven.

Benjamin Whichcote

Joy is the life of man’s life.
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Joy Life Man
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
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
Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.
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Greater Power Truth
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
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
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Imposeth Law Righteousness Self
The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.
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Half Imperfect Mysterious
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
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
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
Let not a man’s self be to him all in all.
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Men Self Selfishness
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.
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Approach Flower Soul Sun
He that does not repent, sins again.
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Repent Repentance Sin
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
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Carrie Idol Men
No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.
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Deny God Men

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