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Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.

And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout?

No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments.

The crooked end obedient spirits draws, The pointed, those rebels who spurn at Christian laws.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant religion.

Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low, Lest I should fear and fall, and miss Thee so Who art not missed by any that entreat.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion . . . "What religion?" . . . the Earl said, "Men of sense never tell it."

An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!

G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I rather would be An atheist clean, Than under gospel colours hid be, Just for a screen.

One religion is as true as another.

As if Religion were intended For nothing else but to be mended.

Synods are mystical Bear-gardens. Where Elders, Deputies, Church-wardens, And other Members of the Court, Manage the Babylonish sport.

So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout Of petulant capricious sects, That maggots of corrupted texts, That first run all religion down, And after every swarm its own.