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Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

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Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

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Peace of conscience is nothing but the echo of pardoning mercy.

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The Christian's life should put his minister's sermon in print.

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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.

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We must come to good works by faith, and not to faith by good works.

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The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it.

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Godliness is the child of truth, and it must be nursed by its own mother.

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Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

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It is one thing to know a truth, and another thing to know it by unction.

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He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.

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The longer a soul hath neglected duty, the more ado there is to get it taken up.

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Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

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To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.

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For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.

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Whoever hath a seed time of grace pass over his soul, shall have his harvest time also of joy.

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God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son 'the captain of your salvation'.

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As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.

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Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

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God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

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The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

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Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.

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He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.

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Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee.

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Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.

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Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.

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Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

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It is no policy to let thy lusts have arms, which are sure to rise and declare against thee when thine enemy comes.

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Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

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Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

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