I had always some ambition, and you now see that I was right; for who knows how this may end ?' 'Ay, who knows that indeed,' answered I, with a groan: 'for my part I don't much like it; and I could have been better pleased with one that was poor and honest, than this fine gentleman with his fortune and infidelity; for depend on't, if he be what I suspect him, no free-thinker shall ever have a child of mine.' 'Sure, father,' cried Moses, 'you are too severe in this; for heaven will never arraign him for what he thinks, but for what he does.

Every man has a thousand vicious thoughts, which arise without his power to suppress.

Thinking freely of religion, may be involuntary with this gentleman: so that allowing his sentiments to be wrong, yet as he is purely passive in his assent, he is no more to be blamed for his errors than the governor of a city without walls for the shelter he is obliged to afford an invading enemy.' 'True, my son,' cried I; 'but if the governor invites the enemy, there he is justly culpable.

And such is always the case with those who embrace error.

The vice does not lie in assenting to the proofs they see; but in being blind to many of the proofs that offer.