Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.
The church is in Christ, as Eve was in Adam.
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.
God is no captious sophister, eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor, ready to amend what, in our weakness or our ignorance, we say ill, and to make the most of what we say aright.