"What a return do we make for those blessings we have received! and how disrespectfully do we treat the gospel of Christ to which we owe that clear light both of reason and of nature which we now enjoy, when we endeavor to set up reason and nature in opposition to it! Ought the withered hand, which Christ has restored and made whole, to be lifted up against Him?"
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Thomas Sherlock, "Discourse on John II: 67–69", in The Works of Bishop Sherlock, ed. T. S. Hughes (London: A. J. Valpy, 1830), p. 16
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