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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 7.

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Profession Not Practice

By Jeremy Taylor

PROFESSION NOT PRACTICE.—Some men talk like angels, and pray with fervor, and meditate within deep recesses and speak to God with loving affections, and words of union, and adhere to Him in silent devotion; and when they go abroad are as passionate as ever, peevish as a frightened fly, vexing themselves with their own reflection; they are cruel in their bargains, unmerciful to their tenants, and proud as a barbarian prince; they are, for all their fine words, impatient of reproof, scornful to their neighbors, lovers of money, supreme in their own thoughts and submit to none; all their spiritual fancy is an illusion; they are still under the power of those passions, and their sin rules them imperiously, and carries them away infallibly.—Jeremy Taylor.