If you look upon the rule in Titus it is a rule to me. If you convince me that it is no rule I shall yield.

As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makes plain the pathway.

I conceive there lies a clear rule in Titus that the elder women should instruct the younger and then I must have a time wherein I must do it.

Better to be cast out of the Church than to deny Christ.

An oath, sir, is an end of all strife, and it is God's ordinance.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

I have been guilty of wrong thinking.