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“Let them no more say, God must do all, we can do nothing, and so encourage themselves to live in a careless neglect of God, and of their own souls, and salvation. Most certainly, altho' we cannot say, That if men improve their natural abilities as they ought to do, that grace will infallibly follow, yet there will not one sinner in all the reprobate world, stand forth at the day of judgment, and say, Lord, thou knowest I did all that possibly I could do, for the obtaining grace, and for all that, thou didst withhold it from me.”
― Increase Mather

“Wine is from God, but the Drunkard is from the Devil.”
― Increase Mather, Wo to Drunkards. Two Sermons Testifying Against the sin of Drunkenness: Wherein the Wofulness of That Evil and the Misery of all That are Addicted to ... Second Edition. [Three Lines From Habakkuk]