Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

That which has a beginning will surely have an end.

The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more sense than to adopt. I will illustrate it by an old apple tree. Here jumps off a branch and says, I am the true tree, and you are corrupt. If the whole tree is corrupt, are not its branches corrupt? If the Catholic religion is a false religion, how can any true religion come out of it? If the Catholic church is bad, how can any good thing come out of it?

God judges men according to the use they make of the light which He gives them.

Surely I have contemplated the things of God.

I have always declared God to be a distinct personage, Jesus Christ a separate and distinct personage from God the Father, and the Holy Ghost was a distinct personage and a Spirit: and these three constitute three distinct personages and three Gods.

The constitution expects every man to do his duty; and when he fails the law urges him; or should he do too much; the same master rebukes him.