Benjamin Whichcote
Benjamin Whichcote
Benjamin Whichcotewas a British Establishment and Puritan divine, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and leader of the Cambridge Platonists...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhilosopher
angel repentance pardon
The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.
becoming mercy repentance
It is altogether as worthy of God and as much becoming Him to pardon and show mercy, in case of repentance and submission and reformation, as to punish, in case of impenitency and obstinacy.
thinking religion reform
None more deceive themselves than they who think their religion is true and genuine, thought it refines not their spirits and reforms not their lives.
men willpower blind
Will, without reason, is a blind man's motion; will, against reason, is a madman's motion.
hereafter
What is Perfected hereafter, must be begun here.
men idols carrie
An idol is what man makes and then has to carry. God makes a man and then carries him.
cost littles good-words
A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.
jealous men guilty
No man is greatly jealous who is not in some measure guilty.
mind guilt done
A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.
thinking men action
No man doth think others will be better to him than he is to them.
learning way teach
There is no better way to learn than to teach.
charity benefactors representatives
A benefactor is a representative of God.
evil good-and-evil be-good
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
power use vain
That power is in vain which is never in use.