If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before. For all men by nature reason alike, and well, when they have good principles.

It's my turn, to take a leap into the darkness!

A Covenant not to defend myself from force, by force, is always void. For... no man can transfer or lay down his Right to save himself from Death.

No Discourse whatsoever, can End in absolute Knowledge of Fact.

But they that hold God to be [an incorporeal substance]do absolutely make God to be nothing at all. But how? Were they atheists? No. For though by ignorance of the consequence they said that which was equivalent to atheism, yet in their hearts they thought God a substanceSo that this atheism by consequence is a very easy thing to be fallen into, even by the most godly men of the church.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.