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It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

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What peace can they have who are not at peace with God?

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Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

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Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and half-heartedness of the professors of it.

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The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

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Were we to think more of our own mistakes and offences, we should be less apt to judge other people.

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Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.

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No creature hath the like resemblance to the divine nature, as light hath. He doth not only dwell in light, but he is light. Light is a pure, bright, clear, spiritual, unmixed substance. God is infinitely so.

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Those may justly be reckoned void of understanding that do not bless and praise God; nor do men ever rightly use their reason till they begin to be religious, nor live as men till they live to the glory of God. As reason is the substratum or subject of religion (so that creatures which have no reason are not capable of religion), so religion is the crown and glory of reason, and we have our reason in vain, and shall one day wish we had never had it, if we do not glorify God with it.

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They that die by famine die by inches.

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Scriptures were written, not to satisfy our curiosity and make us astronomers, but to lead us to God, and make us saints.

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What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with his word, that he may have all the praise.

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He that is in haste may contract much guilt in a little time. What we say or do unadvisedly when we are hot, we must unsay or undo again when we are cool, or do worse.

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Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

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It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.

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We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

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It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.

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Those whom God will employ are first struck with a sense of their unworthiness to be employed.

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Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

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It is not enough for us to be where God is worshipped, if we do not ourselves worship him.

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