Sprat

Cited as Sprat. — 16 quotations

Our zeal should be according to knowledge.

Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate.

Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting.

Oppose . . . debauchery by temperance.

An active, expensive, indefatigable goodness.

All men, truly zealous, will perform those good works that are incumbent on all Christians.

They are endued with indelible power from above.

An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being agreeable to the will of God.

More clergymen were impoverished by the late war than ever in the like space before.

They were exposed to hardship and penury.

I would ask . . . whether . . . the divine law does not positively require humility and meekness.

They . . . never think it to be a part of religion to rush into the office of princes and ministers.

What they boded would be a mischief to us, you are providing shall be one of our principal strengths.

To determine what are little things in religion, great wariness is to be used.

That warmth . . . which agrees with Christian zeal.

Are not those found to be the greatest zealots who are most notoriously ignorant? whereas true zeal should always begin with true knowledge.