There Are More Sure Marks Of Authenticity

A Vulgar Mechanick Can Practice What He Has Been Taught Or Seen Done, But If He Is In An Error He Knows Not How To Find It Out And Correct It, And If You Put Him Out Of His Road He Is At A Stand. Whereas He That Is Able To Reason Nimbly And Judiciously About Figure, Force, And Motion, Is Never At Rest Till He Gets Over Every Rub. (from A Letter Dated 25 May, 1694)

It Is The Perfection Of God's Works That They Are All Done With The Greatest Simplicity. He Is The God Of Order And Not Of Confusion. And Therefore As They Would Understand The Frame Of The World Must Endeavor To Reduce Their Knowledge To All Possible Simplicity, So Must It Be In Seeking To Understand These Visions.

Daniel Was In The Greatest Credit Amongst The Jews, Till The Reign Of The Roman Emperor Hadrian . And To Reject His Prophecies, Is To Reject The Christian Religion. For This Religion Is Founded Upon His Prophecy Concerning The Messiah .

As A Blind Man Has No Idea Of Colors, So We Have No Idea Of The Manner By Which The All-wise God Perceives And Understands All Things.

Doth Not This Æthereal Medium In Passing Out Of Water, Glass, Crystal, And Other Compact And Dense Bodies Into Empty Spaces, Grow Denser And Denser By Degrees, And By That Means Refract The Rays Of Light Not In A Point, But By Bending Them Gradually In Curve Lines? And Doth Not The Gradual Condensation Of This Medium Extend To Some Distance From The Bodies, And Thereby Cause The Inflexions Of The Rays Of Light, Which Pass By The Edges Of Dense Bodies, At Some Distance From The Bodies?