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01c. 1662 AD

Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

John Tillotson / quote

02c. 1662 AD

Wickedness is voluntary frenzy, and every sinner does more extravagant things than any man that is crazed and out of his wits, only that he knows better what he does.

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03c. 1662 AD

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools.

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04c. 1662 AD

Be careful to discountenance in children anything that looks like rage and furious anger.

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05c. 1662 AD

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

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06c. 1662 AD

Our religion sets before us, not the example of a stupid stoic who had by obstinate principles hardened himself against all sense of pain beyond the common measures of humanity, but an example of a man like ourselves, that had a tender sense of the least suffering, and yet patiently endured the greatest.

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07c. 1662 AD

If on one side there are fair proofs, and no pretense of proof on the other, and that the difficulties are more pressing on that side which is destitute of proof, I desire to know whether this be not upon the matter as satisfactory to a wise man as a demonstration.

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08c. 1662 AD

For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.

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09c. 1662 AD

To always be intending to live a new life but never to find time to set about it this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another till he is starved and destroyed.

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10c. 1662 AD

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

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