No Man Is The Wiser For His

In A Troubled State We Must Do As In Foul Weather Upon A River, Not Think To Cut Directly Through, For The Boat May Be Filled With Water; But Rise And Fall As The Waves Do, And Give Way As Much As We Conveniently Can.

Nothing Is Text But What Is Spoken Of In The Bible And Meant There For Person And Place; The Rest Is Application; Which A Discreet Man May Do Well; But It Is His Scripture, Not The Holy Ghost's. First, In Your Sermons Use Your Logic, And Then Your Rhetoric; Rhetoric Without Logic Is Like A Tree With Leaves And Blossoms, But No Root.

Ceremony Keeps Up Things: 'tis Like A Penny Glass To A Rich Spirit, Or Some Excellent Water; Without It The Water Were Spilt, And The Spirit Lost.

More Solid Things Do Not Show The Complexion Of The Times So Well As Ballads And Libels.

Money Makes A Man Laugh.