If I Had Stayed For

How Came The Bodies Of Animals To Be Contrived With So Much Art, And For What Ends Were Their Several Parts? Was The Eye Contrived Without Skill In Opticks, And The Ear Without Knowledge Of Sounds?...and These Things Being Rightly Dispatch’d, Does It Not Appear From Phænomena That There Is A Being Incorporeal, Living, Intelligent...?

As I Am Writing, Another Illustration Of Ye Generation Of Hills Proposed Above Comes Into My Mind. Milk Is As Uniform A Liquor As Ye Chaos Was. If Beer Be Poured Into It & Ye Mixture Let Stand Till It Be Dry, The Surface Of Ye Curdled Substance Will Appear As Rugged & Mountanous As The Earth In Any Place.

The Great Ocean Of Truth Lay All Undiscovered Before Me.

I Have A Fundamental Belief In The Bible As The Word Of God, Written By Men Who Were Inspired. I Study The Bible Daily. Opposition To Godliness Is Atheism In Profession And Idolatry In Practice. Atheism Is So Senseless And Odious To Mankind That It Never Had Many Professors.

In Experimental Philosophy, Propositions Gathered From Phenomena By Induction Should Be Considered Either Exactly Or Very Nearly True Notwithstanding Any Contrary Hypotheses, Until Yet Other Phenomena Make Such Propositions Either More Exact Or Liable To Exceptions.