Astrological prayers seem to me to be built on as good reason as the predictions.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

Error is but the shadow of the truth.

Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

Sincerity and honesty carry one through many difficulties which all the arts he can invent would never help him through.

Nothing enlarges the gulf of atheism more than the wide passage that lies between the faith and lives of men pretending to teach Christianity.

Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.