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The Best And Safest Way Of Philosophising Seems To Be, First To Enquire Diligently Into The Properties Of Things, And To Establish Those Properties By Experiences [experiments] And Then To Proceed Slowly To Hypotheses For The Explanation Of Them. For Hypotheses Should Be Employed Only In Explaining The Properties Of Things, But Not Assumed In Determining Them; Unless So Far As They May Furnish Experiments.

Godliness Consists In The Knowledge Love & Worship Of God, Humanity In Love, Righteousness & Good Offices Towards Man.

It Is The Weight, Not Numbers Of Experiments That Is To Be Regarded.

Is Not Fire A Body Heated So Hot As To Emit Light Copiously? For What Else Is A Red Hot Iron Than Fire? And What Else Is A Burning Coal Than Red Hot Wood?

Henceforward The Christian Churches Having A Form Of Godliness, But Denying The Power Thereof, Came Into The Hands Of The Encratites: And The Heathens, Who In The Fourth Century Came Over In Great Numbers To The Christians, Embraced More Readily This Sort Of Christianity, As Having A Greater Affinity With Their Old Superstitions, Than That Of The Sincere Christians; Who By The Lamps Of The Seven Churches Of Asia, And Not By The Lamps Of The Monasteries, Had Illuminated The Church Catholic During The Three First Centuries.