Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.