Occupation: Theologian Birth: December 21, 1603 Death: April 18, 1683
Health requires healthy food..
Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers,….
Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed..
If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from destroying the bodies of men for r….
Is it possible that since I hunt, I may be hunting for the life of my Savior and the blood of the Lamb of God? I have fought against many differing s….
When in doubt, try nutrition first..
The ministry or service of prophets and witnesses, mourning and prophesying in sackcloth, God has directly commissioned and upheld all during the rei….
'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten thou….
In my plea for freedom to all consciences in matters merely of worship, I have impartially pleaded for freedom of the consciences of the Papists them….
Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world..
A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law..
Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them..
There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and education, by good l….
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained..
How frequent, how constant ought we to be, like Christ Jesus our example, in doing good, especially to the souls of men and especially to the househo….
Even if the civil magistrate is so gifted as to prophesy in the church, yet in the sphere of his civil duties he is forbidden to call down fire from ….
All who are entrusted with spiritual and temporal talents must lay them out for the Lord and Master's advantage..
We find not in the Gospel, that Christ hath anywhere provided for the uniformity of churches, but only for their unity..
The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even to a river, brook, &c. And I h….
That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it..
I do not condone hostility toward any church simply to vent personal malice or umbrage..