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God loveth adverbs; and cares not how good, but how well.

Joseph Hall

Care, God Love, Wells

Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.85

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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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Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and for pleasures, because they stay not, and do but call to drink at my door, I will use them as passengers with slight respect. He is his own best friend that makes the least of both of them.

Joseph Hall

Christian, Blessing, Doors

Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “Works: Devotional works”, p.66

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Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.

Joseph Hall

Running, Exercise, Alarms

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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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Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

Joseph Hall

Laziness, Desperate, Dare

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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.

Joseph Hall

Believe, Giving, Looks

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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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[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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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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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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Nothing doth so fool a man as extreme passion. This doth make them fools which otherwise are not, and show them to be fools which are so.

Joseph Hall

Passion, Men, Fool

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That which the French proverb hath of sickness is true of all evils, that they come on horseback, and go away on foot; we have often seen a sudden fall or one meal's surfeit hath stuck by many to their graves; whereas pleasures come like oxen, slow, and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.

Joseph Hall

Horse, Fall, Oxen

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Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

Joseph Hall

Spiritual, Distance, Eye

Joseph Hall (1837). “Works: With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings”, p.154

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Earthly greatness is a nice thing, and requires so much chariness in the managing, as the contentment of it cannot requite.

Joseph Hall

Nice, Greatness, Contentment

Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “to xviii”, p.16

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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.

Joseph Hall

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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This field is so spacious that it were easy for a man to lose himself in it; and if I should spend all my pilgrimage in this walk, my time would sooner end than my way.

Joseph Hall

Men, Way, Fields

Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.13

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

Joseph Hall

Vanity, Together, Mets

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

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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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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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The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.

Joseph Hall

Men, Evil, Ease

Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.60

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...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

Joseph Hall

Gratitude, Covetousness

Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.34

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Died: September 8, 1656
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