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• The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.

  John Tillotson

  Christian, Men, Mind

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.476

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

  John Tillotson

  Dark, Thinking, Danger

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

  John Tillotson

  Passionate, Proud, Christ

  John Tillotson (1820). “Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers”, p.70

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• 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.

  John Tillotson

  Power, Men, Way

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• For the spiritual efficacy of the Sacrament doth not depend upon the nature of the thing received, supposing we received what our Lord appointed, and receive it with a right preparation and disposition of mind, but upon the supernatural blessing that goes along with it, and makes it effectual to those spiritual ends for which it was appointed.

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  Spiritual, Blessing, Preparation

  John Tillotson (1685). “A Discourse Against Transubstantiation”, p.30

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• Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?

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  Men, Relief, Cases

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• Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.

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  Truth, Lines, Way

  John Tillotson (1748). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...”, p.16

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• Of all parts of wisdom, the practice is the best. Socrates was esteemed the wisest man of his time because he turned his acquired knowledge into morality, and aimed at goodness more than greatness.

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  Greatness, Men, Wisest Man

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• Great is the advantage of patience.

  John Tillotson

  Patience, Advantage

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• Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.

  John Tillotson

  Wise, Men, Religion

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.210

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• The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

  John Tillotson

  Anger, Liable, Controversy

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• It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.

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  Long, Return, Action

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• It is pleasant to be virtuous and good, because that is to excel many others; it is pleasant to grow better, because that is to excel ourselves; it is pleasant to mortify and subdue our lusts, because that is victory; it is pleasant to command our appetites and passions, and to keep them in due order within the bounds of reason and religion, because this is empire.

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  Passion, Order, Lust

  John Tillotson (1720). “Works”, p.121

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• Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.

  John Tillotson

  Men, Religion, Purpose

  John Tillotson (1696). “The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: Containing Fifty Four Sermons and Discourses, on Several Occasions. Together with The Rule of Faith”, p.330

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• If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.

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  Men, Use, Benefits

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.696

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• When a man has once forfeited the reputation of his integrity, he is set fast, and nothing will then serve his turn, neither truth nor falsehood.

  John Tillotson

  Integrity, Men, Reputation

  John Tillotson, Thomas Birch (1820). “The works of Dr. John Tillotson ... with the life of the author”, p.23

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• Every man hath greater assurance that God is good and just than he can have of any subtle speculations about predestination and the decrees of God.

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  Men, Subtle, Decree

  John Tillotson (1717). “The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...”, p.580

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• If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

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  Soul, Suffering, States

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• We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

  John Tillotson

  Heart, Pleasure, Sweetness

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• Was ever any wicked man free from the stings of a guilty conscience?

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  Men, Wicked, Guilty Conscience

  John Tillotson (1720). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ... containing fifty four sermons and discourses, on several occasions”, p.52

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• Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.

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  Wisdom, Two, Understanding

  John Tillotson (1819). “The wisdom of being religious”, p.2

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• Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?

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  Procrastination, Sleep, Sea

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• Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.

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  Contentment, Virtue, Piety

  John Tillotson (1720). “Works”, p.66

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• Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.

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  Journey, Men, Way

  John Tillotson (1717). “Works”, p.10

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• 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.

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  Mean, Men, May

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