Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.

With the history of Moses no book in the world, in point of antiquity, can contend.

Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.

Whatever convenience may be thought to be in falsehood and dissimulation, it is soon over; but the inconvenience of it is perpetual, because it brings a man under everlasting jealousy and suspicion, so that he is not believed when he speaks the truth, nor trusted when perhaps he means honestly.

There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.

Even so does he who provides for the short time of this life, but takes no care for all eternity; which is to be wise for a moment, but a fool for ever; and to act as crossly to the reason of things as can be imagined; to regard time as if it were eternity, and to neglect eternity as if it were but a short time.