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John Tillotson
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“If God were not a necessary Being of himself, he might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.”
John Tillotson (1630–1694) said by 1694 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Day's Collacon: An Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations (1884), edited by Edward Parsons Day, p. 326
“With what reason canst thou expect that thy children should follow thy good instructions, when thou thyself givest them an ill example? Thou dost but as it were beckon to them with thy head, and shew them the way to heaven by thy good counsel, but thou takest them by the hand and leadest them in the way to hell by thy contrary example.”
John Tillotson (1630–1694) said by 1694 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sermon 62: On the Education of Children, in The Works of Dr. John Tillotson (1772) edited by Thomas Birch, Vol 3, p. 197; this is more commonly quoted as modernized and paraphrased by John Charles Ryle, Anglican Bishop …