Benjamin Whichcote (4 May 1609 – May 1683) was an English Establishment and Puritan divine, 19th Provost of King’s College, Cambridge and leader of the Cambridge Platonists. He held that man is the “child of reason” and so not completely depraved by nature, as Puritans held. He also argued for religious toleration.
Benjamin Whichcote
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Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
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Conscience without judgment is superstition.
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Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.
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