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Darryl Friesen
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What shall we say of the Man that Rebels against his Father, is an Ill Husband, or an Abusive Neighbor; one that’s Lavish of his Time, of his Health, and of his Estate, in which his Family is so nearly concerned? Must he go for a Right Moralist, because he pays his Rent well? If paying what we owe, makes the Moral Man, is it not fit we should begin to render our Dues, where we owe our very Beginning; ay, our All?
— Jan 29, 2025 08:35AM
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Darryl Friesen
is on page 95 of 96
If Men would once consider one another reasonably, they would either reconcile their Differences, or more Amicably maintain them.
To Hord up all to ourselves is great Injustice as well as Ingratitude.
Truly then it is, that Sense shines with the greatest Beauty when it is set in Humility.
— Jan 30, 2025 10:31AM
To Hord up all to ourselves is great Injustice as well as Ingratitude.
Truly then it is, that Sense shines with the greatest Beauty when it is set in Humility.
Darryl Friesen
is on page 84 of 96
Death cannot kill, what never dies.
‘T is very observable, if our Civil Rights are invaded…we are mightily touch’d, and fill every Place with our Resentment and Complaint; while we suffer our selves, our Better and Nobler Selves, to be the Property and Vassals of Sin, the worst of Invaders.
Disappointments are not always to be measured by the Loss of the Thing, but the Over-value we put upon it.
— Jan 30, 2025 10:02AM
‘T is very observable, if our Civil Rights are invaded…we are mightily touch’d, and fill every Place with our Resentment and Complaint; while we suffer our selves, our Better and Nobler Selves, to be the Property and Vassals of Sin, the worst of Invaders.
Disappointments are not always to be measured by the Loss of the Thing, but the Over-value we put upon it.
Darryl Friesen
is on page 82 of 96
We are too apt to love Praise, but not to Deserve it…No more lessen or dissemble thy Merit, than over-rate it: For tho’ Humility be a Virtue, an affected one is none.
It too often happens in some Conversations, as in Apothecary-Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have Things of Small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress’d and Flourish’d, as those that are full of precious Drugs.
— Jan 30, 2025 09:55AM
It too often happens in some Conversations, as in Apothecary-Shops, that those Pots that are Empty, or have Things of Small Value in them, are as gaudily Dress’d and Flourish’d, as those that are full of precious Drugs.
Darryl Friesen
is on page 80 of 96
But certainly they are in the Wrong, that can think they are lessened, because others have their Due. Such People generally have less Merit than Ambition, that Covet the Reward of other Men’s; and to be sure a very ill Nature, that will rather Rob others of their Due, than allow them their Praise…But Just and Noble Minds Rejoice in other Men’s Success, and help to augment their Praise.
— Jan 29, 2025 05:22PM
Darryl Friesen
is on page 64 of 96
Love is the hardest Lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
We naturally fear most to offend what we most Love.
— Jan 28, 2025 12:41PM
We naturally fear most to offend what we most Love.
Darryl Friesen
is on page 57 of 96
To have Religion upon Authority, and not upon Conviction, is like a Finger Watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. Some Folks think they may Scold, Rail, Hate, Rob and Kill too; so it be but for God’s sake. But nothing in us unlike him, can please him.
— Jan 28, 2025 12:37PM
A good End cannot sanctifie evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it. Some Folks think they may Scold, Rail, Hate, Rob and Kill too; so it be but for God’s sake. But nothing in us unlike him, can please him.
Darryl Friesen
is on page 51 of 96
A Minister of the Gospel ought to be one of Christ’s making, if he would pass for one of Christ’s Ministers. And if he be one of his making, he Knows and Does as well as Believes.
As the Ministers of Christ are made by him, and are like him, so they beget People into the same Likeness.
God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal prayers.
— Jan 28, 2025 12:29PM
As the Ministers of Christ are made by him, and are like him, so they beget People into the same Likeness.
God is better served in resisting a Temptation to Evil, than in many formal prayers.
Darryl Friesen
is on page 49 of 96
He that does Good, for Good’s sake, sells neither Praise nor Reward; tho’ sure of both at last. Perhaps thou art rather Innocent than Virtuous, and owest more to thy Constitution, than thy Religion. Innocent, is not to be Guilty: But Virtuous is to overcome our evil Inclinations. If thou hast not conquer’d thy self in that which is thy own particular Weakness, thou hast no Title to Virtue…
— Jan 27, 2025 05:17AM
Darryl Friesen
is on page 48 of 96
Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d…
Certainly Service upon Inclination is like to go farther than Obedience upon Compulsion.
How ugly do our own Failings look to us in the Persons of others, which yet we see not in our selves.
We have a call to do good, as often as we have the Power and Occasion. They are taught so by his Example…from whom they have borrowed their Name.
— Jan 27, 2025 05:11AM
Certainly Service upon Inclination is like to go farther than Obedience upon Compulsion.
How ugly do our own Failings look to us in the Persons of others, which yet we see not in our selves.
We have a call to do good, as often as we have the Power and Occasion. They are taught so by his Example…from whom they have borrowed their Name.
Darryl Friesen
is on page 39 of 96
Patience and Diligence, like Faith, remove Mountains.
Unless Virtue guide us, our Choice must be wrong.
[Passion] more than any thing deprives us of the use of our Judgment; for it raises a Dust very hard to see through.
He that corrects out of Passion, raises Revenge sooner than Repentance.
Be not provoked by Injuries, to commit them.
— Jan 26, 2025 05:52AM
Unless Virtue guide us, our Choice must be wrong.
[Passion] more than any thing deprives us of the use of our Judgment; for it raises a Dust very hard to see through.
He that corrects out of Passion, raises Revenge sooner than Repentance.
Be not provoked by Injuries, to commit them.
