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“If the sweetness of all flowers were in one, how sweet must that flower be? In Christ all perfections of mercy and love meet. How great then must that mercy be that lodges in so gracious a heart?”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“We should be ready at all times to depart hence, and to live in such a condition as we would be content to die in.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“Stir up the grace that is in you, for in this way holy motions turn to resolutions, resolutions to practice, and practice to a prepared readiness to every good work.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“Nothing can make itself or bring itself into being. Therefore there must be some being that has no cause, that depends upon no other, never was produced by any other, but was what he is from eternity, cannot be otherwise, and is what he is, not by will but by nature, necessarily existing and always existing without any capacity or possibility ever not to be.”
― Stephen Charnock