Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.
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When we have practiced good actions awhile, they become easy when they are easy, we take pleasure in them when they please us, we do them frequently and then, by frequency of act, they grow into a habit.
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Are we not all members of the same Body and partakers of the same Spirit and heirs of the same blessed hope of eternal life ... Why do we not, as becomes brethren, dwell together in unity, but are so apt to quarrel and break out into heats, to crumble into sects and parties, to divide and separate from one another upon every trifling occasion Give me leave ... in the name of our dear Lord ... to recommend to you this new commandment of his, that ye love one another. Which is almost a new commandment still, and hardly the worse for wearing, so seldom is it put on, and so little hath it been practiced among Christians.
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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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There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
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In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is, in reality, so much power.
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