That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.

Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us first of all by his works, did it afterwards, by his Words. We will now for a while read the former of these books; 'twill help us in reading the latter. They will admirably assist one another.

If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?