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Right and truth are greater than any power, and all power is limited by right.

Benjamin Whichcote

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
Modesty and humility are the sobriety of the mind, as temperance and chastity are of the body.
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Humility Mind Sobriety
Believe things, rather than man.
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Belief Believe Men
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
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
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Begun Hereafter Perfected
The judge is nothing but the law speaking.
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Judging Law Speaking
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
Christ is God clothed with human nature.
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Christ Human Jesus Nature
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 is dishonest, trusts nobody.
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Dishonest Nobody Trust
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
None can do a man so much harm as he doeth himself.
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Doe Harm Men None
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
Ah! when in the immortal ranks enlisted, I sometimes wonder if we shall not find That not by deeds, but by what we’ve resisted, Our places are assigned.
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Deeds Immortal Sometimes Temptation
A good man’s life is all of a piece.
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Good Man Pieces

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