Francis Atterbury Quotes - Page 2

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• The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

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  Future, World, Importance

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• Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

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  Causes, Drink, Invisible

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• A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.

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  Wise, Blessing, Community

  Francis Atterbury (1774). “Sermons and Discourses on Several Subjects and Occasions”, p.58

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• Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

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  Mean, Solitude, Encounters

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• Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

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  School, Affliction, Virtue

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• The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

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  Ministers, Priesthood, Nations

  Francis Atterbury (1709). “A Sermon Preach'd Before the Sons of the Clergy, At Their Anniversary-Meeting In The Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, Dec. 6. 1709”, p.8

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