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Humility Is The Great Preserver Of Peace And Order In All Christian Churches And Societies, Consequently Pride Is The Great Disturber Of Them, And The Cause Of Most Dissensions And Breaches In The Church.

Those May Justly Be Reckoned Void Of Understanding That Do Not Bless And Praise God; Nor Do Men Ever Rightly Use Their Reason Till They Begin To Be Religious, Nor Live As Men Till They Live To The Glory Of God. As Reason Is The Substratum Or Subject Of Religion (so That Creatures Which Have No Reason Are Not Capable Of Religion), So Religion Is The Crown And Glory Of Reason, And We Have Our Reason In Vain, And Shall One Day Wish We Had Never Had It, If We Do Not Glorify God With It.

God Cannot Be Represented By An Image. We Ought Not To Think That The Godhead Is Like Unto Gold, Or Silver, Or Stone, Graven By Art And Man's Device. We Wrong God, And Put An Affront Upon Him, If We Think So. God Honoured Man In Making His Soul After His Own Likeness; But Man Dishonours God If He Makes Him After The Likeness Of His Body. The Godhead Is Spiritual, Infinite, Immaterial, Incomprehensible, And Therefore It Is A Very False And Unjust Conception Which An Image Gives Us Of God.

The Kingdom Of Heaven Was Never Intended To Indulge The Ease Of Triflers, But To The Rest Of Them That Labor.

It Is Easy To Be Religious When Religion Is In Fashion; But It Is An Evidence Of Strong Faith And Resolution To Swim Against A Stream To Heaven, And To Appear For God When No One Else Appears For Him.