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There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.

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Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).

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Times are bad, God is good.

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Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.

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The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.

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There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

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Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment…

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It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.

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The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

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