“Eternal life does not depend upon our perfection; but because it does depend upon the grace of Christ and the love of the Spirit, that love shall prompt us to emulate perfection.”

— William Adams

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 210.

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Fellow and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford 1706–1789

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