The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.

To say God spake or appeared as he is in his own nature, is to deny his Infiniteness, Invisibility, Incomprehensibility.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

Baptism is the sacrament of allegiance of them that are to be received into the Kingdom of God, that is to say, into Eternal life, that is to say, to Remission of Sin. For as Eternal life was lost by the committing, so it is recovered by the remitting of men's sins.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

Where there is no common power, there is no law