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Page 11 - But for the third degree, which is simulation and false profession, that I hold more culpable, and less politic, except it be in great and rare matters The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame, and opinion ; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use ; and
Page 11 - Certainly the ablest men that ever were have had all an openness and frankness of dealing, and a name of certainty and veracity: but then they were like horses well managed, for they could tell passing well when to stop and turn;
Page 39 - made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come:
Page 11 - turn; and at such times when they thought the case indeed required dissimulation, if then they used it, it came to pass that the former opinion, spread abroad, of their good faith and clearness of dealing, made them almost invisible
Page 24 - the very constitution of our nature requires that we bring our whole conduct before this superior faculty; wait its determination; enforce upon ourselves its authority; and make it the business of our lives, as it is absolutely the whole business of a moral agent, to conform ourselves to it.
Page 147 - would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to
Page 86 - than ever, of the necessity of living upon the principles of religion which we are all agreed in, and uniting in these: and how much mischief men that overvalue their own opinions have done by their controversies in the Church: how some have destroyed charity, and some caused schisms by them, and most have hindered godliness.'.
Page 86 - I am not too narrow in my principles of Church communion as once I was. ... I am much more sensible of the evil of schism, and of the separating humour, and of gathering parties, and making several sects in the Church, than I was heretofore. For the effects have shewed us more of the mischiefs. ... I am
Page 158 - choice of his expressions, and the outward earnestness of his address; and the bad effects of emulation mixing with actions, in which, of all others, humility and forgetfulness of self are necessary. Such too is that warmth of feeling and language derived rather from imitation than conviction, which, under the circumstances which