"Ability is a poor mans wealth."
Matthew Wren was an influential English clergyman, bishop and scholar.
"Howere God requires truth in the inward parts, yet the inward parts alone are not all he requires, he will not know, that he is loved, unlesse that love doe outwardly appeare, and expression we must make of our Feare, or els he will not acknowledge, that we doe feare him."
Matthew Wren"We have a great deale of Religion in our Eares too. But yet higher or lower though we have none, None upon our Heads, for a due Reverence before him; None in our Knees, to bow at his blessed Name; None for our Bodies, to cast them downe and worship.Especially not in his house, in the most Sacred presence of our God; No, the lesse a doe there, the better, the lesse Superstition. Doe but come in confidently, and without any more stirre, sit downe, and be covered, and heare; and who dare say, that we feare not God? Whatsoever is more then this, for Adoration or any Beautie of Holines, talke K. David what he will of it, yet it is but δεισιδαιμονία, a Superstitious overfearing of God with many of us: for where requires he any of these Expressions and Externall operations in his worship?"
Matthew Wren"The Epidemiall prophanation of our times."
Matthew Wren