The understanding also hath its idiosyncrasies as well as other faculties.

How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.

Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective.

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

We cannot conceive how the Foetus is form'd in the Womb, nor as much as how a Plant springs from the Earth we tread on ... And if we are ignorant of the most obvious things about us, and the most considerable within our selves, 'tis then no wonder that we know not the constitution and powers of the creatures, to whom we are such strangers.

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.