The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

God shall be all in all.

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.