Some Who Are Far From Atheists, May

Now, We Deny Not, But That Politicians May Sometimes Abuse Religion, And Make It Serve For The Promoting Of Their Own Private Interests And Designs; Which Yet They Could Not Do So Well Neither, Were The Thing Itself A Mere Cheat And Figment Of Their Own, And Had No Reality At All In Nature, Nor Anything Solid At The Bottom Of It.

The Best Assurance Any One Can Have Of His Interest In God, Is Doubtless The Conformity Of His Soul To Him. When Our Heart Is Once Turned Into A Conformity With The Mind Of God. When We Feel Our Will Conformed To His Will, We Shall Then Presently Perceive A Spirit Of Adoption Within Ourselves, Teaching Us To Say, "abba, Father.

If Intellection And Knowledge Were Mere Passion From Without, Or The Bare Reception Of Extraneous And Adventitious Forms, Then No Reason Could Be Given At All Why A Mirror Or Looking-glass Should Not Understand.

Some Who Are Far From Atheists, May Make Themselves Merry With That Conceit Of Thousands Of Spirits Dancing At Once Upon A Needle's Point.

Even The Atheists... Readily Acknowledge It For An Indubitable Truth, That There Must Be Something... Which Was Never Made Or Produced - And Which Therefore Is The Cause Of Those Other Things That Are Made, Something... Whose Existence Must Needs Be Necessary... Wherefore All The Question Now Is, What Is This... Self-existent Thing, Which Is The Cause Of All Other Things That Are Made.