A great leap in the dark

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.

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

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

A Law of Nature, (Lex Naturalis) is a Precept, or general Rule, found out by Reason, by which a man is forbidden to do, that, which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.

Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.