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

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.