How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

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

But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.