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The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.


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It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.Matthew Henry's Commentary


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The service of sin is perfect slavery; the service of God is perfect liberty.


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Human learning is both ornamental and serviceable to a gospel minister, especially for the convincing of those who are outside; for it enables him to beat them at their own weapons, and to cut off Goliath's head with his own sword.


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the most exalted minds have so fallen, as to deny that there is any God at all; and to fable, that fortune disposes of all things at random; such were Epicurus and Pliny.Bondage of the Will, Section 166


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The way of family worship is a good old way, no new thing, but the ancient usage of the saints.Commentary Gen 12:6


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A modest dress is a very good thing, if it be the genuine indication of a humble heart, and is to instruct; but it is a bad thing if it be the hypocritical disguise of a proud ambitious heart, and is to deceive. Let men be really as good as they seem to be, but not seem to be better than really they are.Matthew Henry's Commentary


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If God does not give His people what they ask for, it is because He knows they do not need it, and that it is not for their good.


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A man may go idle to Hell, but he who will go to Heaven, must be diligent.


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Our temptations, if not yielded to, are not sins; they are afflictions only.


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We cannot expect too little from man, nor too much from God!


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Our times are in God's hand. Whether they be prosperous times or calamitous times, it is He who has determined them.


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It is our wisdom and duty to begin every day with God.


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The more cheerful we are in our duty the more constant we shall be to it.


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Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning


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When we begin to fret and be uneasy, we ought to consider that God hears all our murmurings, though silent, and only the murmurings of the heart.


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The word of God directs us in our work and way, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. The commandment is a lamp kept burning with the oil of the Spirit, as a light to direct us in the choice of our way, and the steps we take in that way.


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Even when God is coming towards his people in ways of mercy, he sometimes takes such methods as that they may think themselves but ill treated.


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When our heads are fullest of care, and our hands of business, yet we must not forget our religion, nor suffer ourselves to be indisposed for acts of devotion.


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We should take notice of that in others which is good, to their praise, that by so doing we may lay engagements upon them to abound therein more and more.


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The way to forget our miseries, is to remember the God of our mercies.


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Let no man go beyond or defraud his brother, for, though it be hidden from man, it will be found that God is the avenger of all such.


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The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.


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Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.


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We must believe that He is able to do what He will, wise to do what is best, and good, according to His promise, to do what is best for us, if we love Him, and serve Him.


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