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• No marvel if the worldling escape earthly afflictions. God corrects him not. He is base born and begot. God will not do him the favour to whip him. The world afflicts him not, because it loves him: for each man is indulgent to his own. God uses not the rod where He means to use the Word. The pillory or scourge is for those malefactors that shall escape execution.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Mean, Blessing

  Joseph Hall (1824). “Select Tracts from the writings of ... J. H. ... Edited by C. Bradley”, p.336

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• There would not be so many open mouths if there were not so many open ears.

  Joseph Hall

  Ears, Mouths, Slander

  Joseph Hall, John Webster Morris (1867). “Devotions, Sacred Aphorisms and Religious Table Talk: Selected from the Writings of the Eminently Pious and Learned Bishop Hall ; to which is Prefixed a Brief Memoir of the Author”, p.380

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• I will rather suffer a thousand wrongs than offer one. I have always found that to strive with a superior is injurious; with an equal, doubtful; with an inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.

  Joseph Hall

  Suffering, Strive, Found

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• [W]e all lie down in our bed of earth as sure to wake as ever we can be to shut our eyes.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Lying, Eye

  Joseph Hall (1808). “Devotional works”

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• What fools are we, to be besotted with the love of our own trouble, and to hate our liberty and rest!

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Liberty, Fool

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.65

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• Rich people should consider that they are only trustees for what they posses, and should show their wealth to be more in doing good than merely in having it.

  Joseph Hall

  People, Wealth, Rich

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• Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Men, Sin

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.12

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• Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die

  Joseph Hall

  Ambition, Men, Enemy

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.26

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• Now you say, alas! Christianity is hard; I grant it; but gainful and happy. I contemn the difficulty when I respect the advantage. The greatest labors that have answerable requitals are less than the least that have no regard. Believe me, when I look to the reward, I would not have the work easier. It is a good Master whom we serve, who not only pays, but gives; not after the proportion of our earnings, but of His own mercy.

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  Believe, Giving, Looks

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• If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, World, Might

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• Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.

  Joseph Hall

  Heart, Eye, Heaven

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.151

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• Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

  Joseph Hall

  Soul, Atmosphere, Society

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• Mark in what order: first, our calling; then, our election; not beginning with our election first. By our calling, arguing our election.

  Joseph Hall

  Order, Calling, Firsts

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Containing forty-three sermons”, p.594

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• For whom he means to make an often guest, One dish shall serve; and welcome make the rest.

  Joseph Hall

  Mean, Guests, Welcome

  Joseph Hall (1839). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Miscellaneous works; Poetical works: Appendix; indices, etc”, p.195

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• Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Evil, Unity, Neutrality

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• How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!

  Joseph Hall

  Hate, Calling, Holiness

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.505

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• The idle man is the devil's cushion.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Devil, Laziness

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.60

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• I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together.

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  Vanity, Together, Mets

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.10

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• As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

  Joseph Hall

  Running, Cutting, Men

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• A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Opinion

  Joseph Hall (1808). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works”, p.65

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• God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable. The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.

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  Happiness, Cutting, Men

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Contemplations”, p.12

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• We are often infinitely mistaken, and take the falsest measures, when we envy the happiness of rich and great men; we know not the inward canker that eats out all their joy and delight, and makes them really much more miserable than ourselves.

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  Men, Envy, Joy

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• Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.

  Joseph Hall

  Ambition, Humility, Pride

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• Virtues go ever in troops; they go so thick, that sometimes some are hid in the crowd; which yet are, but appear not.

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  Troops, Crowds, Sometimes

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.83

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• I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist

  Joseph Hall

  Adventure, Lists, Firsts

  'Virgidemiae' (1597) prologue

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