Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things

These are the prejudices which I undertook to notice here. If any others of a similar character remain, they can easily be rectified with a little thought by anyone.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.