Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole-cats, or foxes; but are content, nay, think it safety, to be devoured by lions.

Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

Revelation in matters where reason cannot judge, or but probably, ought to be hearkened to. First, Whatever proposition is revealed, of whose truth our mind, by its natural faculties and notions, cannot judge, that is purely matter of faith, and above reason.

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths, which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.

For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.