Bibles are strong entrenchments. Where they abound, men cannot pursue wicked courses, and at the same time enjoy quiet conscience.
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Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.
But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.
The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.
Bible revelations are not against reason but above reason, for the uses of faith, man's highest faculty.
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
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