Occupation: Theologian Birth: December 21, 1603 Death: April 18, 1683
When He send, His messengers will go, His prophets will prophesy, though all the world should forbid them..
When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his….
No man ever did, nor ever shall, truly go forth to convert the nations, nor to prophesy in the present state of witnesses against Antichrist, but by ….
Sometimes the truth is stupid..
An enforced uniformity of religion throughout a nation or civil state, confounds the civil and religious, denies the principles of Christianity and c….
When in doubt, use nutrition first..
The Christian church [in its true identity] does not persecute; any more than a lily scratches the thorns, or a lamb pursues and tears the wolves, or….
Some eminent witnesses of God's truth believe that before the downfall of Antichrist [which virtually all Reformers construed to be Romanism], Englan….
My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, bla….
While I deplored and denounced the incivilities of Quakerism in my day (such as the going naked in public by some at sundry times), my position regar….
Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods..
It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare..
A false religion out of the church will not hurt the church, any more than weeds in the wilderness hurt an enclosed garden, or poisons hurt the body ….
It is but little of the world yet that hath heard the lost estate of mankind and of a Savior, Christ Jesus; and as yet the fullness of the gentiles h….
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive..
Reflect upon your own spirit, and believe Him that said it to His overzealous disciples, 'You know not what spirit you are of.'.
When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, God hat….
If any refuse to obey the common laws and orders of the ship concerning their common peace or preservation; if any shall mutiny or rise up against th….
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether o….
God requireth not a uniformity of religion to be enacted in any civil state; which enforced uniformity (sooner or later) is the greatest occasion of ….
God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state..