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• Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

  John Tillotson

  Vices, Arbitrary, Wickedness

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• And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.

  John Tillotson

  World, Littles, Sincere

  "The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions".

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• Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

  John Tillotson

  Gratitude, Evil, Affliction

  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.104

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• For a Man cannot believe a Miracle without relying upon Sense, nor Transubstantiation without renouncing it. So that never were any two things so ill coupled together as the Doctrine of Christianity and that of Transubstantiation, because they draw several ways, and are ready to strangle one another: For the main Evidence of the Christian Doctrine, which is Miracles, is resolved into the certainty of Sense, but this Evidence is clear and point blank against Transubstantiation.

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  Christian, Believe, Men

  John Tillotson (1685). “A discourse against transubstantiation”, p.40

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• Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.

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  Christian, Men, Wicked

  John Tillotson (1722). “The works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...: containing two hundred sermons and discourses ... To which are annexed prayers composed by him for his own use; a discourse to his servants before the Sacrament; and a form of prayer composed by him, for the use of King William ... together with tables to the whole ...”, p.372

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• The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

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  Art, Hype, Deception

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• If the show of any thing be good for any thing, I am sure sincerity is better; for why does any man dissemble, or seem to be that which he is not, but because he thinks it good to have such a quality as he pretends to?

  John Tillotson

  Thinking, Men, Quality

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