Sharp

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Sufferings . . . patiently and Christianly borne.

We must therefore distinguish between the essentials in religious worship . . . and what is merely circumstantial.

None among them are thought worthy to be styled religious persons but those that cloister themselves up in a monastery.

Religion is . . . inconsistent with all compulsive motives.

This is therefore a concession, that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain.

One day in the week is . . . consecrated to a holy rest.

The wisest and most considerate men in the world.

It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time.

According to all the light that the contexts afford.

If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures.

The drama and contrivances of God's providence.

To embezzle our money in drinking or gaming.

To determine concerning the expedience of action.

Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.

In those days, as St. Jerome tells us,“any one as he walked in the fields, might hear the plowman at his hallelujahs.”

In hourly expectation of a martyrdom.

Not gross, willful, deliberate, crimes; but rather the effects of inconsideration.

The age which we now live in is not an age of inspiration and impulses.

The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends.

As if he had been possessor of the whole world.