Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric; rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.
John SeldenWomen ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.
John SeldenIn quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
John SeldenHe that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.
John SeldenAll things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service - just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.
John Selden