The Enemy has been here in the night of our natural ignorance, and sown the tares of spiritual errors.

The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Nature itself cannot err

The Scripture was written to shew unto men the kingdom of God; and to prepare their minds to become his obedient subjects; leavingthe world, and the Philosophy thereof, to the disputation of men, for the exercising of their natural Reason.

Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.