"As God by creation made two of one, so again by marriage He made one of two."
"Even the tired horse, when he comes near home, mends pace: be good always, without weariness, but best at last; that the nearer thou comest to the end of thy days, the nearer thou mayest be to the end of thy hopes, the salvation of thy soul."
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Source: Thomas Adams, James Sherman (1848). “An Exposition Upon the Second Epistle General of St. Peter”, p.326
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