He was doubtless a pious and sincere man.

He had perused innumerable volumes in various languages, and had indeed acquired more learning than his slender faculties were able to bear.

The small intellectual spark which he possessed was put out by the fuel.

Some of his books seem to have been written in a madhouse, and, though filled with proofs of his immense reading, degrade him to the level of James Naylor and Ludowick Muggleton.

He began a dissertation intended to prove that the law of nations was a divine revelation made to the family which was preserved in the ark.