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We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.

Benjamin Whichcote

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.
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Devil Laziness Work
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
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Conscience Judgment Superstitions
Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls.
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Good Incarnate Men Soul
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
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
Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.
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Heaven Hours Moments
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour’s eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour’s case.
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Cases Eye Men
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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Becoming Mercy Submission
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
We are made for one another, and each is to be a supply to his neighbor.
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Made Neighbor Supply
Religion is … being as much like God as man can be.
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God Men Religion
Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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Belief Denominations Old Testament
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces
He that repents is angry with himself; I need not be angry with him.
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Angry Needs Repent
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
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Hypocrisy Men Soul
He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth.
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Conceited Error Wisdom
He that useth his reason doth acknowledge God.
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Acknowledge Reason
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
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Action Men Thinking
None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.
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Good Opportunity Temptation
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
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
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Angel Pardon Repentance
We are only so free that others may be free as well as we.
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Free May Wells
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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