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Faith is our seal; assurance of faith is God's seal.
CHRISTOPHER NESSE

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None sink so far into hell as those that come nearest heaven, because they fall from the greatest height.
WILLIAM GURNALL

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Be soonest angry with thyself.
THOMAS FULLER

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Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
JOSEPH HALL

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Posture in worship is too often imposture.
THOMAS WATSON

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Be not only attentive in hearing, but retentive after hearing.
THOMAS WATSON

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A godly man preferreth grace before goods, and wisdom before the world.
RICHARD BERNARD

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One eye-witness is better than ten ear-witnesses.
THOMAS ADAMS

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The noise of wars drowns the voice of laws.
JOHN TRAPP

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What cannot warrant a breach where there is union, that cannot warrantably be the ground to keep up a division.
JAMES DURHAM

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It is common for men to make doubts when they have the mind to desert the truth.
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD

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When men have orthodox judgements and heterodox hearts, there must needs be little love to truth.
WILLIAM GURNALL

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The Holy Trinity: A mystery which my faith embraces as revealed in the Word, but my reason cannot fathom.
JOHN ARROWSMITH

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He may not be accounted an honest man of life that is an evil man in tongue.
NICHOLAS BYFIELD

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Satan can never undo a man without himself; but a man may easily undo himself without Satan.
THOMAS BROOKS

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Sufferings are but as little chips of the cross.
JOSEPH CHURCH

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Sin: the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, & the contempt of His love.
BUNYAN

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For God requiring the first-born for His offering, & the first-fruits for His service, requireth the first labours of His servants.
H SMITH

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Examination will help the Christian that has fallen & bruised himself to heal the wound whilst it is fresh, before it is festered.
SWINNOCK

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As the Lord lives, I dare promise it in His name, if we would seek Him we should see the salvation of the Lord.
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD