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67. No ſin can be little; becauſe God is holy.

68. Every man has two characters: a good one, from his friends; and a bad one, from his enemies. The beſt way, perhaps, for us, to form a juſt eſtimate of any perſon whatever, is, by mixing his two characters together, and making one of both.

69. The greateſt and trueſt nobility is, to be a ſervant of the great God. He is nobly deſcended, who is born from above.

70. In it’s beſt eſtate, free-will was but a weather-cock, which turned at the breath of a ſerpent’s tongue. It made a bankrupt of our father Adam ; it pulled down the houſe, and ſold the land, and ſent all the children to beg their bread.

71. There are two C’s, which I will never ſacrifice to any man ; my conſcience, and my conſtitution.

72. You muſt be going either to heaven or hell. You can. not go two ways at once.

73. Beware of yielding to Satan’s motions. A ſaint’s fleſh heals not ſo eaſily as other’s.

74. I never trufted God, but I found him faithful; nor my own heart, but I found it falſe.

75. Moſt men look upon their friends, as they do upon their ſun-dials; only when the ſun ſhines.

76. What is life, but a warfare? And what is the world, but a thoroughfare?

77. He that lives without fear, ſhall die without hope.

78. Paſſionate reproofs are like medicines given ſcalding hot: the patient cannot take them. If we wiſh to do good to thoſe we rebuke, we ſhould labor for meekneſs of wiſdom, and uſe ſoft words and hard arguments.