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• And, to prevent mistakes, I must advertize you, that I now mean by elements, as those chymists that speak plainest do by their principles, certain…
• He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.
• And I might add the confidence with which distracted persons do oftentimes, when they are awake, think, they see black fiends in places, where there…
• Tis evident, that as common Air when reduc'd to half Its wonted extent, obtained near about twice as forcible a Spring as it had before;…
• Divers of Hermetic Books have such involv'd Obscuritys that they may justly be compar'd to Riddles written in Cyphers. For after a Man has surmounted…
• I consider then, that generally speaking, to render a reason of an effect or Phaenomenon, is to deduce It from something else in Nature more…
• The main thing that induces me to question the safeness of the vulgar methodus medendi in many cases is the consideration of the nature of…
• The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of Gods own stamp.
• Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay; leaving doters…
• Exalt your passion by directing and settling it upon an object the due contemplation of whose loveliness may cure perfectly all hurts received from mortal…
• Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased himself to the sufferance of…
• He that condescended so far, and stooped so low, to invite and bring us to heaven, will not refuse us a gracious reception there.
• Let there be an admiration of those divine attributes and prerogatives for whose manifesting he was pleased to construct this vast fabric.
• God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world, for several ends and purposes.
• Darkness that here surrounded our purblind understanding will vanish at the dawning of eternal day.
• By giving man a free will he allows man that highest satisfaction and privilege of co-operating to his own felicity.
• All the loveliness imparted to the creature is lent it to give us enlarged conceptions of that vast confluence and immensity that exuberates in God.
• Such immense power, such unsearchable wisdom, and such exuberant goodness, as may justly ravish us to an amazement, rather than a base admiration.
• You owe little less for what you are not, than for what you are, to that discriminating mercy to which alone you owe your exemption…
• As to the freeness or unmeritedness of Gods love, we need but consider that we so little could at first deserve his love, that he…

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