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Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.

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Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

Oh, no, it is not the Scriptures, and was commanded to tell them God did not dwell in temples made with hands.

Friends, meet together and know one another in that which is eternal, which was before the world was.

Epistle 149 (1657)

Your teacher is within you; look not forth; it will teach you lying in bed, going abroad, to shun all occasion of sin and evil.

Journal (1694)

There are too many talkers, and few walkers in Christ.

Epistle 244 (1666)

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
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Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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