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I build nought els but castles in the ayre.

— Thomas Watson

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We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.

Repentance is purgative; fear not the working of this pill.

The Doctrine of Repentance (1668)

Obedience carries in it the life-blood of religion.

There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.

Leaving sin is not enough, unless we embrace righteousness.

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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