[T]is not all fishing to fish.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams.
The will of man is by his reason swayed.
He that loses his conscience has nothing left that is worth keeping. Therefore be sure you look to that, and in the next place look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience.
Affliction is a divine diet which though it be not pleasing to mankind, yet almighty God hath often imposed it as a good, thought bitter, physic, to those children whose souls are dearest to him.