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A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.
A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.
Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.
Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.
It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.
If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.
The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.
Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.
The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.
It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.
From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation upon whom it is bestowed.
The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.
He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.
There is a variety in tempers of good men.
