Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion. — Quoted

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“Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.”

Mary Astell · Religion

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Mary Astell

The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes.

Wisdom

Mary Astell

How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex?

Respect

Mary Astell

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

Happiness

Mary Astell

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Design