with a state of moral government by a Being of infinite wisdom and
power."

13. "As ploughing is the means of having a harvest, though God has
predetermined whether there should be a harvest or not, so prayer is
the means of obtaining good from God, although that good is
predetermined upon; it is therefore no more absurd to pray than to
plough."

14. "Notwithstanding happiness is the necessary consequence of
health, yet man's happiness is more from intellectual than corporeal
feelings."

15. "Evil is necessarily connected with and subservient to good,
although in the next world there will be all good and no evil."

16. "By reason we can discover the necessary existence of a Deity,
yet to be a sceptic on that subject is the first step to be a
Christian, because reason not sufficiently proving it we fly to
revealed truth."

17. "The power, which a man has by the comprehensiveness of his mind
to enjoy the future, has no apparent limits."

18. "It is of no avail in the argument concerning the existence of a
Deity, that we have no conception of him, since it does not imply
impossibility of his existence that we have no idea at all upon the
subject."