most ancient or modern, shall never breed any maggots of scruples, or dissatisfactions in his brains, nor shall his eyes or head ever ache with turning them over; but he shall be so resolved in mind, as never to importune God Almighty with impertinent addresses, nor ever become any of those enthusiastical _spiritati_, who, as the most learned Mr. White says, _expound Scripture without sense or reason_, and are not to be disputed with but with the same success as men write on sand, and trouble their neighbours with their dreams, revelations, and spiritual whimsies. No! here is solid conviction, at least so far as the metaphysical mysteries of our religion will admit. If God be _omnipotent_, he is _irresistible_; if so, _just_ in all his actions, though we, who have as much capacity to measure the justice of God’s actions as a man born blind to judge of colours, haply may not discern it. What then need any man trouble his head, whether he be predestinated or no? Let him live justly and honestly according to the _religion_ of his _country_, and refer himself to God for the rest, since he is the potter, and may do what he please with the vessel. But I leave the reader to find his satisfaction in the treatise itself, since it may be I derogate from it by saying so much before it. This book, I doubt not, will find no worse entertainment than the _Leviathan_, both in regard of its bulk, and that it doth not strike so home at the _ministers_ and _Catholic_ party as that did. And yet here we must complain of want of sufficiency or ingenuity to acknowledge the truths or confute the errors of that book; which till it is done, we shall not count the author an heretic. On this side the sea, besides the dirt and slander cast on him in _sermons_ and private meetings, none hath put anything in print against him, but Mr. Rosse; one who may be said to have had so much learning, as to have been perpetually barking at the works of the most learned. How he hath been received beyond seas I know not, but certainly, not without the regret of the _Catholics_; who building their _church_ on other foundations than those of the _Scriptures_, and pretending _infallibility_, _certitude_, and _unity_ in _religion_, cannot but be discontented that these prerogatives of religion are taken away, not only from _tradition_, that is to say, from the _church_, but also from the _Scriptures_, and are invested in the _supreme power_ of the nation, be it of what persuasion it will.