- Easy thing to be a Christian?
It were an easy thing to be a Christian, if religion stood only in a few outward works and duties, but to take the soul to task, and to deal roundly with our own hearts, …
- Contest Among Christians
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none.
The best men are severe to themselves, tender over …
- Sibbes on The Best Men
The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.
- All Christians are Brethren
All Christians are brethren. The greatest men in the world, the mountains, if they be Christians, they are brethren to the lowest. And it fills up the valleys. The …
- Owen on Loving Goodness
If I do truly love goodness in rich apparal, why do I not also love it in rags?
- Things of This World
Thorns will not prick of themselves, but when they are grasped in a man’s hand they prick deep. So this world and the things thereof are all good, and were all made of …