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When A Founder Has Cast A Bell He Does Not Presently Fix It In The Steeple, But Tries It With His Hammer, And Beats It On Every Side To See If There Be Any Flaw In It. So Christ Doth Not Presently After He Hath Converted A Man, Convey Him To Heaven; But Suffers Him First To Be Beaten Upon By Many Temptations And Then Exalts Him To His Crown.

All Extremes Are Error. The Reverse Of Error Is Not Truth, But Error Still. Truth Lies Between Extremes.

The Only Instance Of Praying To Saints, Mentioned In The Bible, Is That Of The Rich Man In Torment Calling Upon Abraham; And Let It Be Remembered, That It Was Practised Only By A Lost Soul And Without Success.

The Old And New Testaments Contain But One Scheme Of Religion. Neither Part Of This Scheme Can Be Understood Without The Other.

Nothing Can Be Proposed So Wild Or So Absurd As Not To Find A Party, And Often A Very Large Party To Espouse It.