Philip Henry Quotes

It is easier to go six miles to hear a sermon, than to spend one quarter of an hour in meditating upon it when I come home.

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• It is easier to go six miles to hear a sermon, than to spend one quarter of an hour in meditating upon it when I come home.

  

  Philip Henry
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