[5]. See discourse delivered at Friends' meeting house, in Mulberry street, page 11.
[6]. Swift.
[7]. Dr. Johnson.
[8]. See Letter to Dr. Atlee. "I admit that I did assert and have long done it, that we cannot believe what we do not understand." This assertion is in curious contrast to some others which he has made. In a discourse before alluded to, he has declared the miraculous birth of our Saviour to be impossible; and in his letter to Thomas Willis, he says, that after believing in the miracle for many years, he has read the ancient History of the Church and the Evangelists with a view to this subject, and that according to his best judgment, Jesus Christ is the son of Joseph; yet he declares in the same letter, that he still retains his original belief: thus proving that he has a mind capable of believing not only what he does not understand, but also against the convictions of his understanding.
[9]. See sermon preached in Philadelphia, page 8.
[10]. See letter to Dr. Atlee.
[11]. See sermons, page 207.
[12]. Life of Cowley.
[13]. 2 Corinthians, chap. 3.
[14]. Matthew, XXIII.