Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.
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Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.John Tillotson
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
John Tillotson
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
John Tillotson
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson
The covetous man heaps up riches, not to enjoy them, But to have them.
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To be always 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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