Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better

It is an axiom of Nature that natural desire cannot utterly be frustrate.

The safest, and unto God the most acceptable way of framing our lives is with all Humility, Lowliness, and Singleness of Heart, to study which way our willing Obedience, both unto God and Man, may be yielded, even to the utmost of that …

Be of good comfort, we have to do with a merciful God, ready to make the best of that little which we hold well, and not with a captious sophister who gathereth the worst out of everything wherein we err.

They saw that to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.

Our naming of Jesus Christ the Lord is not enough to prove us Christians, unless we also embrace that Faith which Christ hath published unto the World.

The nature of every Law must be judged of by the end for which it was made, and by the aptness of things therein prescribed unto the same end.