Benjamin Whichcote — British Philosopher died on December 30, 1683

Benjamin Whichcote was a British Establishment and Puritan divine, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, and leader of the Cambridge Platonists... (wikipedia)

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome.
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
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.
Conscience without judgment is superstition.