Benjamin Whichcote
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"Benjamin Whichcote" (1609–1683) was a English people/British Church of England/Establishment and Puritan Anglicanism#Anglican divines/divine, Provost (education)/Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and leader of the Cambridge Platonists.

Image:Whichcote2.jpg/thumb/right/200px/Engraving of Whichcote from the frontispiece to Select Sermons.

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Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

Fear is the denomination of the Old Testament; belief is the denomination of the New.

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.

Expect no greater happiness in Eternity, than to rejoice in God.

The longest sword, the strongest lungs, the most voices, are false measures of truth.