By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.

Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.