We Have All A Propensity To Grasp

Things Are Sullen, And Will Be As They Are, Whatever We Think Them Or Wish Them To Be.

Now All The Knowledge And Wisdom That Is In Creatures, Whether Angels Or Men, Is Nothing Else But A Participation Of That One Eternal, Immutable And Increased Wisdom Of God.

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.

We Have All A Propensity To Grasp At Forbidden Fruit.

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.