Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from impatience.
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Bishop Horne Quote
“To preach practical sermons as they are called, that is, sermons upon virtues and vices, without inculcating those great Scripture truths of redemption, grace, etc., which alone can incite and enable us to forsake sin and follow after righteousness, what is it but to put together the wheels, and set the hands of a watch, forgetting the spring , which is to make them all go?”
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