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He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it is a saint; that boasts of it is a devil.
Thomas Fuller
Holy and Profane States, 1891.4K
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There are in our age a generation of people who are the best of prophets and worst of historians; Daniel and the Revelation are as easy to them as the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer. They pretend exactly to know the time of Christ's actual reign on earth; of the ruin of the Romish antichrist; yea, of the day of judgment itself. But these oracles are struck quite dumb if demanded anything concerning the time past: about the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt and Babylon, the original increase and ruin of the four monarchies. Of these and the like they can give no more account than the child in the cradle. They are all for things to come, but have gotten (through a great cold of ignorance) such a crick in their neck, they cannot look backward on what was behind them.
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