Thus is His Holiness turn’d to the vilest Reproach, his perfect Knowledge mention’d with scoffing, and his infinite Power despised.

Had we nothing to oppose to this; but that sense of things which is natural to Us, and which even with all these Arts is not quickly defaced, we could not but stand amazed at such Presumptions as these, in so poor, and ignorant, and short lived a Creature as Man; who came naked but lately out of the Earth, and must soon return to that condition again; who finds his sight bounded in every thought, and meets with a thousand stops in all his Designs; who every step that he takes, wants some one to help him, and can scarce avoid being conscious of that Hand to which he ows his Support.  And yet as if it was honour to rave, this impotent Wretch must still be daring at something above him, as if he reckon’d it weakness to own of what he was made, and thought any submission too great a price to pay for being preserv’d.

This cou’d not be accounted less than a Monstrous Extravagance, had we no other Rule than that of Reason to measure it by; and a Man with only his senses about him, would have a horrour to be thus Entertain’d.  How then shall he that professes the Christian Religion, be able to bear so licentious a Treatment of all that is Good? a little degree of temperate Zeal wou’d turn him against such Abuses as these, and a middle proportion of Faith spread over the World, wou’d keep these Places from being so throng’d in their present State as they shamefully are.

They whose Dependence is on them, are so apprehensive of this; that they are very industrious to weaken the force of that Revelation which darts it’s rays so strongly against them, and discovers the vileness of that, they wou’d have Men admire. Redeemer and Saviour are Titles bestow’d upon infamous persons, which shews what sense they have of the want of him to whom they belong:  And for what they are pleas’d to mention as Sins, they are sure to find as slight an Attonement.  They make very bold with the Grace of God, and crave Inspiration to serve the ends of Lust and Revenge:  In which that they may have nothing to check them, all Flames but their own are meer Fancies and Dreams; the sickly Thoughts of a future Account must be banish’d away, and Conscience dismissed as a weak and Cowardly thing.

That nothing may bind it, the Holy Scripture is used as a Fable, and at every turn brought out in disguise to be the better exposed:  They will allow it to be but one of these two, either Imposture or Madness.  And they who profess to make it their Rule, and to lead others by it, are scorn’d and traduc’d as running into Frenzy or Cheat, that no body else may have any regard to them or their way.