Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

Can it then be doubted, but that God, who is infinitely fine Spirit, and withal intelligent, can make and change all species and kind of body as he pleaseth? But I dare not say, that this is the way by which God Almighty worketh, because it is past my apprehension: yet it serves very well to demonstrate, that the omnipotence of God implieth no contradiction.

Nature itself cannot err

To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.

If I had read as much as other men I would have known no more than they.

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.