Quote #3

He hath given us an easy religion, and hath established our future felicity upon natural and pleasant conditions, and we are to be happy hereafter if we suffer God to make us happy here; and things are so ordered that a man must take more pains to perish than to be happy.

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  3. Can any thing in this world be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth can come by chance, when all the sk…
  4. And if any man pretends that he is now sure he shall be saved and that he cannot fall away from grace; there is no better way to confute hi…
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