Quote#God & Faith
There are many fair professors that are foul sinners, and that have…
Quote byThomas Brooks · 1608–1680
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Cabinet of Jewels.
English (original)
There are many fair professors that are foul sinners, and that have much of God, and Christ, and heaven, and holiness in their lips, when they have nothing but sin and hell in their hearts and lives. These men’s conversations shame their profession, and therefore they cry against sanctification as a sure and blessed evidence of a man’s justification.
— Thomas Brooks
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