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Francis Atterbury

Francis Atterbury (6 March 1663 – 22 February 1732) was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and banished for communicating with the Old Pretender. He was a noted wit and a gifted preacher.

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The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been. . . to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.

Christian, Country, Invested, Practice, Public

Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who knew them practically by heart, had the greatest respect for them, and considered them to be men of genius and superior intelligence who had carried their discoveries in every field much further than we today suspect, judging from what remains of their writings. More ancient writings have been lost than have been preserved, and perhaps our new discoveries are of less value than those that we have lost.

Considered, Discoveries, Field, Heart, Men, Writing

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

Forward, Good Man, Men, Relieving, Sake, Take

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

Government, Indebted, Mankind, Represent, Would Be

Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life, any further than it indisposes us for the enjoyment of another.

Enjoyment, Further, Future, Good, Indisposes, This Life

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

Charity, Day, Incentives, Judged, Powerful

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

Day, Down, Grieving, Knowing, Unthankful, Wise

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

Absurdity, Evince, Falsity, Flow, Supposition

Though fanaticism drinks at many founts, its predisposing cause is mostly the subject of an invisible futurity.

Causes, Drink, Fanaticism, Invisible, Predisposing, Though

They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.

Believe, Discoveries, Discovery, Induced, Other Worlds, Ought

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Aware, Gentle, Littles, Powerful, Prosperity, Temptation

A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

Character, Employed, Ends, Established, Mean

A good man not only forbears those gratifications which are forbidden by reason and religion, but even restrains himself in unforbidden instances.

Forbears, Forbidden, Good Man, Men, Restrains, Sacrifice

Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

Encounter, Encounters, Mean, Prepares, Solitude, Strengths

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

Degenerates, Folly, Hospitality, Madness

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

Creatures, Delight, God, Infinitely, Perfection

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Duty, Gains, Good, Reputation, Strive

The things of another world being distant, operate but faintly upon us: to remedy this inconvenience, we must frequently revolve their certainty and importance.

Distant, Future, Importance, Inconvenience, Operate, World

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

Another Life, Enjoyments, Heaven, Immersed, Impossible, Life

There is a variety in tempers of good men.

Good Man, Men, Temper, Tempers, Variety

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