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As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God. - [Injury] I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful. - [Sensuality] Late repentance is seldom true, but true repentance is never too late. - [Repentance] Success at first doth many times undo men at last. - [Success] The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially. - [Well-doing] To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth. - [Opinion] Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence. - [Virtue] Worldly riches are like nuts; many clothes are torn in getting them, many a tooth broke in cracking them, but never a belly filled with eating them. - [Riches] They spare the rod, and spoyle the child. - Mysteries and Revelations (p. 5), (1649) [Punishment] All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep. - Orthodoxe Paradoxes--The Triumph of Assurance (p. 41) [Beauty]
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